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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. But how does one recognize ethical competence?

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. Supercommunicators : How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus.

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How to Lead Effectively When You’re Not in Charge

Lead from Within

This means being reliable, hardworking, and ethical in everything you do. Collaborate and build consensus: Leadership is often about bringing people together and working towards a common goal. When you’re not in charge, this might mean finding ways to collaborate with others and build consensus around a shared vision.

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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

Moreover, it allows boards to align their skills, experiences, and perspectives with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization, ensuring that the board composition is well-suited to address the evolving challenges and opportunities in the business environment.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. She explores each of these questions in depth, as well as the six key qualities of leader humility: a balanced ego, integrity, a compelling vision, ethical strategies, generous inclusion, and a developmental focus.

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Kicking Leadership Clichés

Great Leadership By Dan

The meaning of leadership is changing, as are the skills it requires. In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0, the environmental crisis, increased individualism and value pluralism, digitization, demographic change and technological convergence.

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April 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus. Jesse summarized: “Pushing for consensus when it’s not needed actually makes collaboration more difficult. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds submitted Five Ways To Serve Your Organization & Build Your Leadership Skills.