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What to Do When a Leader Does Something Unacceptable

Lead from Within

The first step is to define whether the behavior is something you disagree with—something that violates your personal moral code—or something that’s truly intolerable. Read up on your employer’s conduct policies to learn about official and unofficial reporting options. You may even be required to report certain things.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the financial derivatives market collapse, Toyota concealing owner reports of sudden acceleration (resulting in a USA man sentenced to prison) and the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill? I’ve tended to think this implies an enduring purpose, guided by a moral framework – values.

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Captain Owen Honors: no honour in this career debacle | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

The videos were shown as a “morale boosting” effort to the 5000 or so officers on board the Enterprise. As a leader, if you have direct reports that are pulling stupid stunts like this, it’s your responsibility to put an end to it immediately… not four years down the road… and not after multiple promotions. Ridiculous.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. In fact, the report points out how “U.S. Quite the opposite, actually.

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Patience in Japan

Harvard Business Review

Consider the reports of my HBS colleague Hiro Takeuchi, a Japanese national who was working in Tokyo last week when tremors hit the city. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. We are seeing this in the horrible aftermath of the current earthquake and tsunami.

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How to Lead During a Data Breach

Harvard Business Review

The New York Times reported that as many as 40 million customers may be affected by the data breach at Target. The breach is reported to have started just before Thanksgiving and continued until December 15 – right in the heart of the most important selling season of the year. Crisis management Leadership Risk management'

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. In times of crisis, advisors are called upon more frequently.

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