Leading Blog

JULY 16, 2021

To counteract this cultural condition, Make It, Don’t Fake It is about “ethics, passion, confidence, pride, resilience, commitment, and survival in a business context. Horn then takes us through her journey as the CEO of a public relations and marketing communications agency. Begin to plan for what is next. It gets us by.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Agility and experimentation beat planning and process in times of dramatic change. Innovative Commitment Google and Tesla exemplify the power of fostering a culture of innovation. Their continuous push for breakthroughs has kept them at the forefront of their respective industries.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 20, 2016

Unlimited commits to finishing one book per month (some take more than one month) and keeping a list. As part of her commitment to life-long learning, Michelle Cubas, CPCC, ACC, of Positive Potentials, LLC makes an effort to learn something new daily. How do you invest in your professional development on a regular basis?

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Tips Development White Paper Learning-by-Doing 319

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2017

Wherever your summer plans are leading you, take a few moments with a refreshing drink and check out these great posts from our favorite leaders. Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context shared 9 Ethical Roles: Is Your leadership Team “All In?” I tend to compare summer leadership to summer school. Let’s Get Started.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. According to John Chambers , CEO of Cisco, “You cannot create collaboration is you think leadership is about control.” It might once have been possible to get away with questionable ethics, but there’s nowhere to hide anymore.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.” How did you get to have it and how do you plan to transcend it? Kaipa is a CEO advisor and coach and a senior fellow at the Indian School of Business.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I recently had the privilege of working with the CEO and over 2,000 of the top leaders in one of the world’s most admired companies. Many of the leaders (about two-thirds of the total group) actually did what they committed to do and, as a group, they were seen as becoming much more effective. To be honest, I feel over-committed.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces? Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. All leaders should commit to these actions. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? Find out more and reserve your spot on the livestream here.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. One key indicator of leadership’s failure to impassion people and foster their commitment is absenteeism. The excitement emanating from a leader can move an entire group… as Birgitta Wistrand, the CEO of a Swedish company, put it, ‘Leadership is giving energy.’

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 10, 2016

I’ll tell you what—it wasn’t until I started a company and became the CEO that I realized the problem. We committed to a research project to help us understand the science of executive presence. Give managers a plan to do something. Suzanne is an advisor to top CEOs, and speaks around the world. Message received.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2023

However, it will be important for companies to tread carefully in this area and ensure that the use of AI is ethical and transparent. However, it will be important for companies to ensure that the use of technology is ethical and transparent, and that it supports rather than undermines DEI efforts. T&D in 2023.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2015

Anger: You’re extremely critical of yourself and other people, and judge others harshly believing you are ethically without reproach. Deceit: When carrying out a plan or strategy, you may become manipulative, deceitful and narcissistic in order to reach your goal. Many CEOs and powerful leaders are in this category).

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. And because of its ongoing commitment to culture, Zappos continues to perform well, even weathering an acquisition by Amazon—without doubt an extraordinarily different corporate culture. Zappos is one example. This is a company that has focused on its culture from day one.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. They find ways to consistently engage them and incorporate them into their innovation and planning initiatives. You must get your employees to engage.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Great leaders don’t major in the minors and understand that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing…Great leaders are committed to not losing focus and not giving-up. On with the exam… Section I: Character.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I recently had the privilege of working with the CEO and more than 2,000 leaders of one of the world’s most admired companies. Many of the leaders (about two-thirds of the total group) actually did what they committed to do and, as a group, were seen as becoming much more effective. Develop a disciplined plan and stick to it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Plans are in writing to address inventories and reducing surplus.

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CEO Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

(Golden Seeds invests only in female entrepreneurs) The book starts discussing The Plan for Progress, which was the plan introduced in the 60s. This shows how companies that adopted a Plan for Progress ended up with more diversity in their companies. Copyright © 2012 Susan E. Published by AMACOM. Used with permission.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if Michael Cardus at Create Learning cultivates some thought with Goal Setting: Solving Problems in Line with Values and Commitment. if No Action is Taken. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Mozilla, for example, seeks to deepen its connections to customers, who have an open invitation to shape the company’s Internet browser and other product offerings, by publishing its financial results (something it does not need to do as a private company), opening its business meetings to the public and posting its strategic plans online.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Here is how it could look: i.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. CEO John Stumpf set the tone. Team members FEEL local leaders are genuinely committed to our agile transformation. Tim’s boss discouraged it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

We are committed to something larger than ourselves: the protection of America’s interests around the world and democracy.” He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities. He required everyone in the Navy to have a personal development plan. What we do is hard work.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A good example of a corporate meme expressed during the financial crisis (even as the subprime crisis worsened) by Charles Prince, former CEO of Citigroup: "As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance," he said. We're still dancing. The financial crisis, the BP oil spill, the collapse of Enron etc. Taylor Caldwell.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

After surveying corruption experts and business executives (including one who went to jail for bribery) I identified four strategies: Have a resistance plan for bribe demands. Firms should calculate these costs into their business plan, says Frederick Davidson, the CEO of Energold Drilling. How can companies kick this habit?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Muhtar Kent, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Coca-Cola since 2009, talks about how the beverage company is imbedding sustainability into its business. We have also committed to economically empowering 5 million women by 2020. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work.

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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. Spend less time planning and more time DOing. Having a plan is critical. TALKING about the plan is just that – talk.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Three CEOs in six years. Two of those CEOs who embarrassed themselves with inept campaigns for elective office. The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Where is the succession planning?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

The decor varies greatly in the offices of the 550 CEOs, government officials, and heads of NGOs interviewed as part of our research on leadership — but hands down, photos are the most popular accessory. Laughing with another CEO at Davos. Playing golf with Jack Nicklaus. Playing golf with Jack Nicklaus.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Consider the following examples: In 2007-2008, a former Credit Suisse Group AG trader committed wire fraud and manipulated the books on mortgage-backed securities to enhance performance and boost year-end bonuses. The company plans to spend an additional $4 billion on compliance and recruit an extra 5,000 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This narrow focus on raising stock price by any means possible keeps companies from making long-term investments, protecting the interests of essential stakeholders like employees or customers, or taking much account of social welfare and ethical considerations in making business decisions. There are at least three useful ways to begin.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

I winced when Daniel, the 32-year-old CEO, said, “Come on, guys, I need you all to focus more on execution. Many startup CEOs adopt this “visionary entrepreneur” leadership style. If we’re going to scale successfully at the pace we’ve laid out, we’ve got to execute faster and delegate more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

Rock outlines three common approaches to how business schools teach corporate values: values as ethics; identifying a set of universal values; and the recognition of values. Develop a values communications plan. I was reminded of this while reading David Rock's " The Business of Values " here on HBR.org. Because it just might.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Employees who understand what it means to work for you and why they work for you will be more committed and engaged. . We typically associate these values with ethics, morality, honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, fairness, justice, respect, compassion, and responsibility. Why is Organizational Culture Important? .

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