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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. There are some situations where many people seem all too willing to abdicate responsibility and simply follow orders, even when it is morally offensive to do so.

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Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Mackey's noble purpose also shaped his holistic perspective : he believes that businesses should strive to create value for all stakeholders, have a moral obligation to give back to society, and be environmentally responsible. Employee morale was taking a nosedive and the company as a whole seemed to have lost its sense of purpose.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Employees, Morale, The Workforce.