Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

T HE BOTTOM LINE is that there is no “good leadership” without ethical thinking. The thinking that powers leadership choices must be grounded in ethical values or the impact on important constituents will be overlooked. As work complexity increases, the ethical thinking we use to address it must advance as well.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Guest post from Sean Pillot de Chenecey: Brands are built on trust, but in a post-truth world, they have a serious problem when so much of modern life is now defined by mistrust. A weakening of the vital trust connection between brands and consumers is causing enormous problems for businesses.

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Leading in Context

JULY 24, 2013

After taking the Leading in Context website and branding back to the drawing board, this week I''m delighted to introduce the Leading in Context® Website version 2.0. Ethical Leader Ethical Organization Trends ethical ethical leadership ethical organization global leadership leading ethicallym ethics what is ethical leadership'

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 29, 2018

By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to be talking about where ethics should be… how and where it fits into real life. Too many leaders and organizations have crossed ethical boundaries and that seems to be all we’re seeing in the news headlines.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 3, 2013

By Linda Fisher Thornton I was recently invited to co-present an ASTD Public Manager Webcast “Developing Ethical Leaders and an Ethical Government Brand” with John Umana. While the Webcast which aired on March 19, 2013 was customized for government HR and Training leaders, the content is applicable across industries.

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Leading in Context

JULY 12, 2023

Making profitability a top business goal without balancing that with adequate ethics awareness is extremely risky, and could lead to community backlash that ends up destroying your brand.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

By Linda Fisher Thornton To celebrate 7 Lenses going into its second printing, this is the fourth post in a special series focused on Why Ethical Thinking Matters.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 6, 2012

Customers shop globally now, and when they buy, they compare products more and more often based on ethics. In addition to shopping cautiously during the recession when money is tight, there's also a trend toward thinking about how each purchase impacts the global community and the planet.

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Which companies are the world's most ethical? Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies 2011 at Ethisphere.com organizes the mostethical companies by industry and country. You may choose to rank based on Trust, Ethical Leadership, Innovation, Revenue, Advertising Spending or Industry. It depends on who you ask!

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Leading in Context

MARCH 6, 2019

By Linda Fisher Thornton One of my favorite concepts for understanding how social media is changing the visibility of organizational culture is Trendwatching.com's report Glass Box Brands. As Trendwatching.com elequently explains, "In an age of radical transparency, your internal culture is your brand."

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Talent Trends: Emerging Leadership Skills for the Future The continual development of digital technology and automation in today’s corporate world demands a new paradigm in leadership. These traditional soft-skill qualities must now be enhanced with new hard skill sets to future-proof one’s leadership style.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Say a hard no to ethics and values violations. In our leadership programs, we always recommend facing difficult conversations with confidence and humility. That idea would be really interesting if we were planning to expand our leadership training programs t o include training llamas. Say yes to what’s most important.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 8, 2023

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. and estranged friend Andi Brand (Janelle Monae). Now, let’s dive into the leadership lessons in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Still, Andi showed up.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

by @DebbieLaskeyMBA The Five W's of Leadership via @LeadershipMain You’re great at this job, let’s make you a manager! via @DeckerComm Start Your New Leadership Role with the End in Mind by @MichaelDWatkins Why Teaching and Learning Must Be Two-Way Leadership is learning at all levels, or it is not leading.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

The acts can be intrinsically fulfilling and at the same time, increase your brand value. Community awards examples include Business of the Year Award, Excellence in Leadership and Service Award, Small Business of the Year Award, New Business of the Year Award, and Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Guest post by Raghu Kalé: IS leadership overrated? Leadership traits are the same; either you have them, or you don’t. On his retirement, my farewell words to him in my in-person chat said it all: “While our corporate signature line is Leadership with Trust— you symbolized Leadership with Thrust. His response was simple.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 21, 2023

Nowadays, firms are increasingly scrutinized for their impact on society and the environment, with corporate social responsibility (CSR) becoming an essential component of brand identity. This is a company that is perceived by stakeholders as actively promoting environmental and social sustainability via co-creation and ethical leadership.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

With far too much failed leadership on display, leaders should commit to building a different brand of leadership— Triple Crown Leadership , say authors Bob and Gregg Vanourek. Triple Crown leaders integrate five practices that build excellent, ethical, and enduring organizations : Seek “head and heart.”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Learning to self-observe is a powerful leadership practice.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Develop a strong, consistent personal brand that evokes confidence in everyone around you, especially financial partners. This means demonstrating consistent reliability in your ethics and consistency in how you show up.” To Succeed in Business, You Need to Persuade Others to Take a Risk on You. Develop an Exit Strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team. Plethora of Choices.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 18, 2018

It improves metrics including productivity, employee satisfaction and ethical brand value. By Linda Fisher Thornton Every organization needs to pay attention to trust. It makes organizations better places to work where people want to invest time and plan careers. .

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Logos, Brands, Slogans. Our world is saturated with advertising, marketing and branding, but are you missing the big picture? The true measure of branding success is when the logo stands alone without any adornment, when the consumer base at large has a brand recognition of the logo. As a leader, this is no different….

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Logos, Brands, Slogans. Our world is saturated with advertising, marketing and branding, but are you missing the big picture? The true measure of branding success is when the logo stands alone without any adornment, when the consumer base at large has a brand recognition of the logo. As a leader, this is no different….

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 10, 2011

I was skimming through headlines on my RSS feed this past weekend when a particular title caught my eye – it simply read: “ Situational Ethics.&# Situational Ethics – Really? Life is full of areas that benefit from flexibility, fluidity, context, and other forms of nuanced thinking, but ethics isn’t one of them.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 11, 2023

Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink, Unilever CEOs Hein Schumacher (June) and Alan Jope (prior), Philip Morris CEO Jacek Olczak, Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put, and Nestle CEO Ulf Mark Schneider have all demonstrated a lack of ethical behavior. What’s worse, Heineken actually launched new brands in Russia since the start of the war.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

The problem with conventional leadership theory is it’s littered with misunderstood and misapplied practices. To prove my point, today’s post will examine the downside of a topic you have not likely considered as a possible area of weakness…Leadership Continuity. . The same principle applies to business.

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CEO Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I have been thinking a lot lately about my brand - specifically, my CEO brand. Some parts of my brand may not serve me as well as they once did. Discover Your CEO Brand - Secrets to Embracing and Maximizing Your Unique Value as a Leader by Suzanne Bates. Your Brand is in essence your reputation.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Using “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building, this week we’ll discuss steps three and four: developing brand identification and meaning, and developing relationships with customers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Understanding the Importance of an Executive Director in an Organization’s Success An organization’s success can be influenced by the strategic leadership and guidance provided by its executive director. This individual plays a pivotal role in shaping the vision, mission, and overall direction of the organization.

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton Consumers are seeking brands that support well-being, sustainability and social justice, realizing that brands that care about these things are more likely to have the best interests of consumers and society at heart. Brands will be well served to assess their alignment between values, culture and strategy.

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Leading Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Of all the business and career memes to gain popularity, few have compromised integrity in business, leadership, and personal success more than the expression “Fake it till you make it.” And that includes creating and staying an authentic brand. She says leadership consists of two parts: winning and losing.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The criticality of effective workforce wellbeing plans engrained in business as usual, as part of the brand, is key to business success. Employees flourish in an environment that creates this.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Let’s use “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building. What does your brand stand for? Does it fill a need?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Most entrepreneurs are imbued with a super-strong work ethic and boundless optimism. If you are successful in building a brand, “even though the business is not yet profitable, it should continue. A brand is the ultimate sustainable advantage and should be fully exploited.”. Mistake #5: The Wrong Team. Avid the sunk cost trap.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And continuing using the metaphor of head and heart, whilst the head gets things done (20 th century leadership) it is the heart that is essential to pump blood around the body, and so enable the head to operate. Buyers Reward You – 80% of the general population would rather pay more for products and services produced ethically.

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