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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. In a blog published February 19, 2017 by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, she outlined how her sexual harassment complaint to the Uber human resources department against her team manager was ignored. Meet your commitments.

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2 Big Opportunities for Incredible Change!

Marshall Goldsmith

Recently, I had the opportunity to do an online session with my friend Ben Croft for the WBECS 2017 Summit. Ben is president of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit and founder of Ethical Coach and he asked me to talk about my pay it forward project 100 Coaches. The first is the Ethical Coach program.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Former CEO Named #1 Most Influential Person in Dentistry for 2017. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

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Take a chance on talent (from #SHRM17)

Surviving Leadership

[This post first appeared on the SHRM Blog on June 19, 2017]. He had been working for a bank and had made some job aids…and that’s about it. But he clearly had an eye from problem solving, a creative mind, and a work ethic like no other. The Monday of any SHRM conference is usually jammed packed and high energy.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. University Representatives—Cohort 1.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business Review

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Additional geographies, including Africa, will be added in the next report, in March 2017. Empathy, we found, is correlated with ethics, and any ethical failure can prove costly.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns.