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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. Employees trust and want to work for an organization with high ethical standards, and work for a leader who lives by those standards. Trust is built on honesty, ethics and integrity. Tone at the top is critically important.

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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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5 Questions to Ask Before You Call Out Someone Powerful

Harvard Business Review

The Chief Operating Officer of one of the world’s biggest banks described the environment that fostered the culture that enabled the Libor and related scandals: “It all begins with the organization’s biggest lie.” And think carefully about who is likely to be affected if you do speak out.

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