Engineering Ethics Management Politics 
Leading Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
Lead Ethically Unethical behavior by a single employee is often easy to spot and deal with. This slow spread of unethical behavior is called ethical fading. Great leaders set and hold the bar on ethics. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2018
The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Political backlash against the leading internet platforms is increasing. Regulatory creep.
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CO2
JUNE 29, 2010
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.
Women on Business
JANUARY 24, 2011
For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Place ad in an unusual venue, attend a political events, support a new cultural organization, or even be friendly at the Health Club.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 17, 2010
In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2015
Who doesn’t stand in awe of the advances that science and its STEM siblings (technology, engineering, and math) have created to better our world? Instead of just STEM, we should perhaps be promoting STEMMA — raising a new generation that also has greater capacities for managing collective human endeavors and appreciating the arts.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2013
Organizational characteristics — cultures, structures, politics, economic resources, their presence or absence, their allocation — put pressure on individuals to behave in deviant ways to achieve organizational goals. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster.
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