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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. This means that ethics is serious business.

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

For example, a pharmaceutical company called me recently. He’s not updated on recent medical technology,” was the answer. 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?

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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. They replied, "He is not updated on recent medical technology." 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.

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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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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. Technology' Today, more than 1.3