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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. When employees believe their bosses have behavioral integrity, their commitment goes up. ? which translated into $250K for each hotel!

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Leading with Character: Integrity

Michael Lee Stallard

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. They approach their work with honesty, and having made a commitment, keep their word. They follow through on their commitments.

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BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

I understand that some of the BIF-6 sessions will be available online so if and when they are posted I’ll blog the links to some of my favorites.) why is everyone smiling?

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

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. Obviously, if you’re not running a hotel or an airport, you probably don’t employ a shoeshine guy. But I bet you can likely find the equivalent.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Nurturing customer loyalty requires a better understanding of its nature, and the nature of loyalty depends on the economics of the business: loyalty to automobiles and mobile phones is qualitatively and quantitatively different than loyalty to hotels and airlines. Who is truly more valuable to an airline or hotel chain?

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7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them

Harvard Business Review

She dreads saying that she has to leave to relieve the nanny because she knows that her colleagues may judge her as having a poor work ethic. What you should say: “Excuse me, I have another commitment.” Gathering her laptop and bag, Heather says, “Excuse me, I have another commitment.” Anything fun?”

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Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, once we start down a path and invest resources in it, we tend to justify our past investments by continuing down that path even when new information suggests that the path is unwise, a phenomenon known as the escalation of commitment. Take the issue of productivity.