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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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7 Ways to Leverage Your Power at Work

Marshall Goldsmith

Here are 10 things that you can do to convince upper management to convert your good ideas into meaningful action: 1) When presenting ideas, realize that it is your responsibility to sell – not their responsibility to buy. 4) Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas–don’t just sell benefits.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Although knowledge workers may know more about what they are doing than their managers do and have years of education and experience, they rarely know how to effectively influence up. To influence upper management and convert good ideas into meaningful action, follow these 10 guidelines: 1.

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

Marshall Goldsmith

Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. In some cases, these decision makers may be immediate or upper managers – in other cases they may be peers or cross-organizational colleagues. Present a realistic “cost-benefitanalysis of your ideas – don’t just sell benefits.

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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. We’re in the business of helping clients measure and manage culture. Mid-managers don’t root for each other’s success or play to win as a team. (DO).

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.