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Ethical Leaders And Workplace Culture: The Foundation Of Ethical Decision Making

Great Leadership By Dan

Steven Mintz: Ethical leaders create a culture in the workplace that promotes moral values and establishes an ethical tone at the top. Creating an ethical culture means setting a standard that decisions are made and actions are taken that are right, not wrong; good, not bad; and they benefit the stakeholders of the organization.

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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. They require careful analysis, not gut feeling or simplistic platitudes.

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How to Solve Our Wild Problems

Leading Blog

T HERE ARE PROBLEMS that can be solved by a simple cost-benefit analysis. The big decisions in life, what Russ Roberts calls Wild Problems — whether to marry, who to marry, what career path to follow, ethical dilemmas — “can’t be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.”.

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Competence, Commitment, and Character

Lead Change Blog

Ethical corners were cut. If the greater good couldn’t be quantified in a cost benefit analysis, it wasn’t important. Hang onto generosity, reciprocity, and ethical commitments. ? “Cash is kind” was the CFO’s favorite go-to line when vetoing spending requests. The CEO always agreed. Legal lines were crossed.

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7 Ways to Leverage Your Power at Work

Marshall Goldsmith

4) Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas–don’t just sell benefits. Be prepared to have a realistic discussion of the costs of your idea. 5) Challenge up on issues involving ethics or integrity–never remain silent on ethics violations.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas--don't just sell benefits. Challenge up on issues involving ethics or integrity--never remain silent on ethics violations. People become more annoyed with you for having to be 'right' on trivia than your need to be right on important business points.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

Present a realistic “cost-benefitanalysis of your ideas – don’t just sell benefits. You can acknowledge the sacrifice that someone else may have to make and point out how the benefits of your plan may outweigh the costs. You are paid to do what makes a difference and to win on important issues.

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