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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. But how does one recognize ethical competence?

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective.

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Two Elements for Effective Delegation

Marshall Goldsmith

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Honest, ethical, and legal behavior is always appropriate—delegation isn’t. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment. My caution to these executives is always the same: Inappropriate delegation can kill.

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Drew Conway and I discussed his company Alluvium, which “uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights.” Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. Ethical Quandaries. Even more disturbing, one in six say they''ve been personally bullied into doing something counter to their ethical values or their customers'' interests.

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Different Cultures See Deadlines Differently

Harvard Business Review

Time is viewed as limited in supply, so Western people structure their lives, especially business operations, by milestones and deadlines. Failure to meet them could be interpreted as having a poor work ethic or being incompetent. I learned about how perception of time varies from culture to culture early in my career.