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May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy looks at the Bureaucratic Mass Index of organizations – and how to upgrade them to Humanocracies with freedom and responsibility ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer. . Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed Ethical Thinking: Sifting For Values.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Trading Places, and Today’s News – Some Saturday Musings about Values, Morals, Ethics

First Friday Book Synopsis

News item: Dallas Police Department fires three officers: Dallas Police Chief David Brown fired three officers Friday in cases involving alleged substance abuse, including one who police say drove while drunk and fired a weapon out of his car and another found to have misused prescription drugs.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? How Ethical Are You? More >>.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel has suggested we redesign the corporation as more a vehicle for human accomplishment than a military machine. Roger Martin has proposed that the overweening pursuit of shareholder value be upgraded to the pursuit of human value. Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by.

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Overthrow Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Roger Martin has elegantly and brilliantly argued why maximizing shareholder value's a destructive goal ; Jack Welch has called the single-minded pursuit of shareholder value the " dumbest idea in the world ;" Teresa Amabile has cogently chronicled why higher purpose leads to better performance; Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Tom Peters have both found time (..)

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