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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’ team defines behavioral integrity as “managers keeping their promises and demonstrating espoused values.” This study made an important link – one that had not been demonstrated before: manager behavior, specifically keeping promises and demonstrating company values, generates hard dollar profits. of annual revenues.

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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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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. With all the meetings, floods of email, and requirements to manage, the thought of focusing on a product’s profitability can be illusive. Good product managers write understandable and timely requirements and prioritize them effectively.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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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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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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