Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute , Virtuous, Authentic, Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. Don’t do it. And he did.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 15, 2023

This increase in usage is particularly prevalent in certain industries, such as technology, where employers may be more concerned about the potential loss of valuable intellectual property or trade secrets. Is it ethical for companies to limit an individual’s ability to make a living to safeguard their own interests?

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Ethics Company Loyalty Morale 64

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

People problems” have several dimensions, as outlined here: talent acquisition and talent management; worker health and wellbeing; employee morale; diversity and inclusion; employee relations; compliance risk. If people analytics does not involve ethical consideration then it could expose workers to increased risks and stress.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. “But then people quickly realized that this is fluff, especially with more information being made available on sites like Glassdoor, and so this has created a real external incentive to be more ethical.” ” Values-based leadership. Focus on operational efficiencies. Recognize an added value.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Religious thinkers and moral philosophers throughout the ages have advocated them. Positive psychology has identified 24 character strengths that it believes — and a growing body of research shows — affect human flourishing. These character strengths are universal. Remember “smile or your fired”. why is everyone smiling?

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Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Over the second round of drinks, the conversation turned toward the company’s growing morale problems. Disruptive new competitors and massive changes in their industry were forcing everyone to scramble. But something told Frank he should go along this time. The company’s legendary growth rates were dropping off.

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Simon Motivation Energy Metrics 69

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

 Today I have a great quarterly leadership journal for you to check out. The Resource: The Leadership Quarterly What it is: The Leadership Quarterly is a peer reviewed journal that is published six times a year (four quarterly issues plus two "Special Issues").  Enjoy!  An annual subscription is $166.

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Peer Review Leadership Human Resources White Paper 124

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Guest post from Bernie Swain : Leadership requires all sorts of qualities: judgment, character, confidence, an unshakeable commitment to a work ethic guided by a moral compass. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Washington DC-based BERNIE SWAIN is co-founder of Washington Speakers Bureau and today's foremost authority on the lecture industry.

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Sports Short-term Learning-by-Doing Long-term 120

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 17, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit What Are “Sustainable Values&# ? In our work, we recommend that leaders of organizations promote the universal character values celebrated by religious thinkers and moral philosophers throughout history. why is everyone smiling?

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.” ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.”

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Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Utilization of industry consultants or technical specialists. Employees know their jobs, are empowered to make decisions and have high morale in carrying the company banner forward. The company leads the industry. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Running the business.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A Race to the Bottom If this scenario ever came to pass, the term “work ethic” would be cancelled and parents would stop telling kids to try their best, because fair-to-average would be good enough for them. Here are seven ingredients of a strong work ethic: Values. Moral character. Stay in shape? Why bother. Do well in school?

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Ethics Bottom-up Morale Metrics 108

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With nearly five million readers, FrankSonnenbergOnline was named one of the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs” and is among the most frequently shared items on the Internet. Because Frank advocates for moral character, personal values, and personal responsibility—qualities that often don’t get the focus they deserve.

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Morale Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Ethics 116

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. However, I refer to them as moral values. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

” The notion of loyalty as a protective force that leads to great success is so much a part of how we think about leadership that it is very easy to accept, even when it is not espoused by someone as exceptionally interesting to watch as James Spader. This idea is, I submit, one of the most dangerous myths in organizational life.

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Loyalty McCombs Ethics Follow-up 14

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself' But the players on the U.S. and the U.K. My takeaways?

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Our research draws upon “moral licensing” theory which asserts, essentially, that doing good things gives us license to do bad things later. It views morality as a kind of bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

We're living with something of an irony right now regarding leadership. On the one hand, the topic has never been more studied and written about; my recent Google search for leadership research by academies and institutes returned some 375,000 hits. On the other hand, we are experiencing a dearth of leadership in society.

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NGO Morale Reputation Media 16

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Thinking that quality needs apply to some other department, company or industry, not your own. Improvement can be quantified by increased productivity, reduced turnover and heightened employee morale. Quality should be viewed as a journey, rather than a destination.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. Statements of purpose often float upward into fluffy, generic moral injunctions, or land heavily as marketing slogans and value propositions. Then, in 2007, something changed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Our system of financial accounting rewards quarterly profits, but struggles mightily to place a value on ethical behavior. That should keep the accountants happy.

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Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Anything for a deal or anything for an advantage is just as bad as anything for a story, even if it violates moral, ethical, and legal standards. Co-optition ," an awkward term for knowing how to cooperate with competitors, is the operating mode in rapidly changing industries. Graciousness has benefits for survival, too.

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Long-term Short-term CEO Ethics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

DIRTT: A Story of DIRTTBags Revolutionizing the Building Industry. It's Time for a New Metaphor Beyond "Ethics" and "Responsibility". Bridging the Leadership Gap with Moral Imagination. Hack by Valeria Budinich. Inside-Out Transformation: A Hybrid Business Model for a Converging World. Story by Gib Bulloch.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The fascination with Millennials has given rise to a new consulting industry. KPMG’s Millennials are also virtually identical to their older colleagues on every measure of overall engagement such as pride in the organization, optimism about the firm’s future, trust in leadership, and willingness to recommend KPMG to a friend.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. A stuffed monkey was placed on top of the cube of the worker who had collected the most revenue, to keep morale high. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The front page of yesterday's New York Times offered an in-depth account of how innovators in one industry are wrestling with that very question. The piece reports on the radical new admissions policy at Virginia Tech Carilion , the country's newest medical school. The technical term for the process is the M.M.I.,

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Airlines Health Care Consensus Policies 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed. Most of these pitfalls are common to so many industries. Desire to edge out a competitor or dominate another industry. Morale is low or uneven.

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