Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Moreover, experts say employee engagement is doubly important in times of economic recession, uncertainty or boom, because this is when the human element differentiates those who fail, survive or thrive. Over-the-top CEO salaries, mortgage fraud, environmental hazards and more contributed to a distrust of large corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. In exchange, a fitness leader can offer a sense certainty, justice, and camaraderie in a time where employees are otherwise plagued by uncertainty, injustice, and isolation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Sara*, the CEO of a software company, had recently fired an employee. How to Manage a Toxic Employee. Gossip is born out of uncertainty. Uncertainty creates a knowledge void that must be filled with actual, or in many cases artificial, information. Ethics and empathy should be the tandem directive for conduct.

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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. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

presidential election and amid continued economic uncertainty around the globe. We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Empathy, we found, is correlated with ethics, and any ethical failure can prove costly. billion ($1.39

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

NADINE HACK , CEO, beCause Global Consulting. Want to lead a more meaningful, ethical, and enjoyable life? Frank Sonnenberg’s new book, Listen to Your Conscience, helps today’s leaders find a place of centeredness and inner peace in a time of trouble and uncertainty. SARAH HINER , President and CEO, Bottom Line Inc. “In

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Pioneer in wellness and prevention programs, disease management and population health."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

CEOs and managers need to understand what that means to their organizations. Our colleagues at work harbor worries in varying degrees, and management faces the new challenge of non-judgmentally navigating this path to security while recognizing the cost of protection. Managing people Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

But Chinese employees have learned that the management skills and systems in multinationals in China come in many flavors, from the exceptional to the abysmal. I have lived in Beijing since 1990 and hired and managed many hundreds of Chinese people over the years. The work ethic of Chinese employees is still fierce.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports concerning his relationship with a contractor. Many times, this desire is so strong that leaders breach the ethical standards that previously governed their conduct, which can be bizarre and even illegal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Steve, a portfolio manager for a major mutual fund company, understood that his company monitored internet use of all employees. I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. Kelly was a nuisance employee and maybe Rick had the goods on her now.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. “I hadn’t realized how much I cared, how much work mattered to me, until then,” he explained, sharing a feeling I have heard many a manager describe. I (Over) Work Therefore I Am.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. We cannot fool them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. Some people do best when they have a manager to answer to or structure to their days. Do you have a marketable skill? Are you disciplined about work?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. Imagine, for example, that you’re a pharmaceutical CEO deciding whether to recall a new drug.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? Suddenly, chief diversity officers in corporations around the US started inviting me to speak to their CEOs on how to drive innovation through diversity. That single conversation changed everything for me.

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