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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. When organizations go astray ethically, it is usually due to a lack of ethical competence, not bad people.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

(Simons’ work continues at The Integrity Dividend with a book, programs, blog, and more.) According to Deloitte’s 2010 Ethics & Workplace Survey, one-third of employed Americans planned to look for a new job when the economy stabilized. Two research studies have noted this “age of mistrust.”

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

In my book Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges , I illuminate obstacles that hold most of us back at some point in our lives and present methods of overcoming them. Don’t be too quick to believe praise OR criticism unless you’ve thought through the coach’s skill and motivations.

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Four Essential Behaviors for Every Leader

Leading Blog

Lead Ethically Unethical behavior by a single employee is often easy to spot and deal with. This slow spread of unethical behavior is called ethical fading. Great leaders set and hold the bar on ethics. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.

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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. The book is highly readable in bite-sized pieces.

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Book Review: It's Not Just Who You Know

Lead on Purpose

This powerful statement comes from Tommy Spaulding in his new book It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc.

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The Power of Collaborative Leadership

Coaching Tip

It is a rare book, one that actually captures "thinking in the moment" from experienced practitioners. In short, the book is for those who are genuinely interested in expanding their capacity to learn from history. in engineering at a prestigious German university. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. Related articles.