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The Covid-19 Lessons That Business Leaders Should Keep After the Pandemic

Lead Change Blog

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Aligning business models with social purpose. By embracing social purpose, business leaders can better anticipate new market needs as well as mitigate against risks to their core business.

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How to Tell if Your Leadership is Going Off the Rails

Lead from Within

So even during times of uncertainty and volatility, staying consistent in your leadership and being intentional about practicing the traits outlined above will keep you on track. A strong leader will regularly assess their business model to determine if their products and services are still meeting the evolving needs of their customers.

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Why ethics are the only way businesses can survive AI and keep our morality

CEO Insider

Organisational change is rapidly accelerating, where a 2018 McKinsey report indicated that 80% of executives were concerned about the emerging risk in their business models. This new age is now characterised with greater speed, combined with greater uncertainty and risk.

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Leading with Character: Integrity

Michael Lee Stallard

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. When a leader has integrity, people aren’t left to guess the leader’s true intention, which often creates ambiguity, uncertainty and anxiety.

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The Values Proposition: Do Small Things with Great Love

Harvard Business Review

The world confronts vast uncertainty, from unrest in the social climate to accelerating shifts in the climate itself. The business community faces an ongoing series of stops and starts, from the loss of an icon like Steve Jobs to the rise of new-economy giants like Amazon and Facebook.

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Getting Buy-In for Innovation that Doesn’t Fade at the End of the Quarter

Harvard Business Review

Examples of constraints are regulatory, legal and ethical issues, or infrastructural or technological restrictions. A “ Freedom” is a factor that helps to achieve the mission, e.g., a dedicated, autonomous team, or high-level sponsorship from an influential partner.