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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. This means that ethics is serious business.

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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Art writes, “The emerging digital and technology-driven world demands that we rethink everything about how we manage, lead, structure and run our organizations. The study features case studies on Google, LinkedIn, HSBC, and Intel.” Let’s Get Started. ” Tweet i4cp at @i4cp. And your organization?”

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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. A Green Vision.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s