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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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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

It also challenges us to rethink our own approach to leveling up in our career. The Institute for Corporate Productivity and ROI Institute have released the results of a new research study, which looks at positive trends and the state of human capital analytics. The study features case studies on Google, LinkedIn, HSBC, and Intel.”

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Headhunters have approached me several times in my career.

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Self-Assessment

Marshall Goldsmith

This should have been the apex of Mike's young career. He is a living case study from whom everyone at Dell is learning. At Northrop Grumman, CEO Kent Kresa and his leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career. Long-term track record, unlike anything accomplished by any other individual, all contributing toward organizational philosophy, purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Never stop paying dues, learning and growing professionally.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity.