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The FBI Way: The Seven C’s of Excellence

Leading Blog

You also can’t spot and avoid the kinds of codes and conduct that threaten your values if you never even develop a strong sense of what it is that you value. Too often, when organizations have their most important standards challenged, they engage in a cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to defend their core values.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society.

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The Leader as Witness

Lead Change Blog

asked manager Butch Clarke of a loyal customer one day as the customer was picking up a print job. If you did a cost-benefit analysis on some of the items on our shelves, you’d see the demand is way too low to make these items profitable,” says owner Gary Meschi. Butch is famous for his unique ways of querying customers.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

Business leaders are beginning to recognize that how people manage their emotions matters to their society’s economy. The 2014 Skoll World Economic Forum’s vision for 21 st century education called for the development of skills like initiative, persistence, adaptability, leadership, and global citizenship.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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