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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! This is my favorite because it addresses fear, a huge negative (and silent) driver that keeps leaders from speaking up against injustice, lack of ethics, morality issues and other things that damage individuals and people in our organizations.

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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. Make certain that third-party proof, in video, is a major part of your proposal. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Working as a Prison Guard Convinced Me That Bosses Should Never, Ever Date Subordinates

Harvard Business Review

In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent. And lots of HR departments agree: a 2013 SHRM survey found that of the 40% of companies with a policy on workplace romantic relationships, 99% banned supervisors from dating their employees. Any interaction beyond respectful professionalism was statutory rape.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society keeps an active list of laws proposed, passed, and defeated across the U.S.).

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A Framework for Reducing Suffering in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Lee’s essay “The Word that Shall Not Be Spoken” in the November 7, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). We believe that a comprehensive approach to measuring and reducing suffering is not just an ethical imperative; it makes strategic sense for health care organizations.

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Cheating at Harvard, and in the "Real World"

Harvard Business Review

And yet the answer I'd propose is not the usual one — that schools should be turned into instrumentalist straightjackets where students learn "hard skills" that can be measured by round after round of standardized tests. I don't know what hard skills I may need in 2030, 2020, or even 2013.