Lead Change Blog

JULY 28, 2016

When we become part of a profession, industry, or career field, we have a simple choice: To either work at the minimal level to function or to work toward becoming the best in your chosen area. While I cringe at many of his scenes and lines, Phil Dunphy has one overriding positive quality: He is trying to be the best he can be.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Delegation is not a quality like “demonstrating integrity” or “complying with the law.” Honest, ethical, and legal behavior is always appropriate—delegation isn’t. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. Inappropriate delegation can do more harm than good.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The conversation around Gen Z in the workplace receives a lot of negative attention whether we’re in discussion about their work fashion or their work ethic. A survey by Kantar found that 40 percent of Gen Z workers are combining at least two roles, especially those at the beginning of their careers.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

” What ways can aspiring leaders prepare and futureproof their career? Think of it this way: An employer may already be looking at the cost/benefit of replacing you with machines. (It Companies that fail to adapt to change typically fade into obsolescence.” This type of thinking will pay off in the end.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and talent. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.” Culture and Mission.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Regardless of the cost, the investment in building relationships is critical to succeeding in your current role and building the foundation on which to grow your career. The crucial question you need to ask yourself: is it worth the cost? Ray Hopkin gives us The Price of Leadership, from Lead on Purpose. Good stuff, as [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. Yet it resulted in a corporate mentality focused on making the sale at any cost. A company could have a terrific ethics policy, but actions speak louder than words on paper.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Kills Brands : As an organization expands and continues to promote mediocre talent up through the ranks, you’ll notice that growth will eventually slow, quality and customer service suffer, and eventually these negative attributes will be reflected in declining brand equity. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. They are admirable qualities so long as they don’t take precedence over, ignore, or contradict truth. How sad is this? What say you?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Do you have great vision?

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics enables organizations to align their workforce with business objectives, minimize recruitment costs, and optimize resource allocation. This leads to improved employee retention, reduced recruitment costs, and enhanced organizational stability.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 11, 2023

Work ethic. Do you create win-win relationships or try to win at all costs? Do you possess quality, in-depth relationships or pursue casual friendships? You might have to work long hours to further your career even though you’d rather spend time with your family. Success mindset. Winning strategy. Personal development.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Quality training must focus on dynamics outside the core business, yet should have relativity to the organization. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (training) saves higher costs. Research shows that training investments foregone are multiplied six-fold in opportunity costs each year that action is put off.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Your personal value proposition (PVP) is at the heart of your career strategy. It's the foundation for everything in a job search and career progression — targeting potential employers, attracting the help of others, and explaining why you're the one to pick. Ethically-challenged places are no fun."

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Practice frugality.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

In one case, a senior executive who had previously worked for a very large public company joined my client, a midsize family-owned company, with such unrealistic expectations about resources and autonomous decision making that he cost the business dearly. Some clear indicators are missed deadlines or a decline in work quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. In order for us to empathize, we must listen so that we understand what others are dealing with, what’s happening in their careers and in their lives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Generosity is more typically an afterthought, a by-product, a "nice-to-have" quality. But it's more than that: Elegantly simple, yet extremely powerful, generosity can make your career. What comes across is a strong work ethic, great communication skills, and a willingness and ability to collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This is troubling not least because it discourages men from behaving in ways known to benefit their teams and their own careers. Men did not get this boost — there was no relationship between male leaders’ empathy and their bosses’ assessment of potential career derailment. Displaying empathy. Expressing sadness.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Suddenly, companies and consumers across the world are finding themselves in a moral quandary: How can you make (or purchase) clothing cheaply without compromising supply-chain ethics? Although a third of male respondents guessed that geek culture is a top tech-career deterrent for women, only 20.6% Just a myth, apparently.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? It contains what I believe to be the necessary qualities a leader must possess to be successful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Poor pay , increased health care costs , and diminished pension plans are certainly core issues — teachers in Oklahoma haven’t received a pay boost in a decade. Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine. What is professionalism exactly?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

In her post 6 Qualities in a Leadership Role Mode l , Sharlyn Lauby, The HR Bartender , describes six qualities associated with Servant Leadership. Do KRA’s and Rewards Help in Quality? She says, “As our work becomes more complex, so do our ethical dilemmas.” Valuing Human Capital.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

At all costs, fight change.in Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Intelligent people know that perfectionism does not exist and the quest for quality and excellence is the real game of life and business. This quality destroys those who possess it. Perpetuate co-dependencies.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

At all costs, fight change… in every shape, form or concept. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Intelligent people know that perfectionism does not exist and the quest for quality and excellence is the real game of life and business. This quality destroys those who possess it.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

It raised the cost of the company substantially.”. When he was asked to join the company as VP of marketing, along with Hugo Powell as president, the company’s costs were eating at its profits. Not just your average quality Joe. Nabob, says Bell, was in hot water.

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