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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. When does pharmaceutical pricing become price gouging? But how does one recognize ethical competence?

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

For example, a pharmaceutical company called me recently. I can’t make a bad doctor a good doctor, a bad scientist a good scientist, or a bad engineer a good engineer. The second question I ask is: are the client’s issues integrity or ethical issues? It would be crazy for me to take these assignments! Neither am I!”

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

One pharmaceutical company called and asked me to coach "Dr. It won't turn bad doctors into good doctors or bad engineers into good engineers. Second, when leaders commit an ethical violation they should be fired - not coached. It only takes one ethical violation to ruin the reputation of an otherwise outstanding company.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. But it is the employee incentives that really matter.

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. Imagine: Future robots could be built to include a kind of ethical clause that limits what they are allowed to do. By 2003, there were 800,000. Technology'

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

As Linda Hill and her colleagues have described, the company needed expert knowledge as it navigated the technically and ethically challenging waters of pharmaceutical development and marketing. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.