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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

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends. Let’s Get Started.

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To Help Others Develop, Start With Yourself

Marshall Goldsmith

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. In fact, organizations that do the best job of cranking out leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are directly and actively involved in leadership development. He is a living case study from whom everyone at Dell is learning.

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To Develop Others, Start With Yourself

Marshall Goldsmith

In fact, organizations that best develop leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are directly and actively involved in leadership development. He is a living case study from whom everyone at Dell is learning. His leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround.

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Self-Assessment

Marshall Goldsmith

Organizations that crank out great leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are actively involved in leadership development. He is a living case study from whom everyone at Dell is learning. His leadership example makes it hard for any leader to act arrogant or to communicate that he or she has nothing to improve upon.

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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. These are still two of the most popular case studies taught in business schools, and because of them, we believe we know why organizations self-inflict crises. ” The motive force behind institutional failure is leadership failure.

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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). Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your business… not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor.