Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

After a leadership team meeting I attended not long ago, one of the executives in attendance sent an email asking to speak with me confidentially. When we were able to connect, he asked, “What do you do when someone in leadership above you does something completely unacceptable?”. The Leadership Gap.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2019

However, what has been largely overlooked by many business leaders is the essential foundation for a culture that sustains and thrives: Ethics. An understanding and common ethical language is missing for many organizations. Culture entails policies and rules, like a work-from-home policy or a vacation policy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 14, 2013

Leadership and character are inseparable. In the Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders , philosophers Al Gini and Ronald Green, ask what is good leadership? They insist "that ethics, character, and virtue are essential to real leadership" and anything else is misleadership. Moral Courage. Moral Vision.

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

Nothing around us stays static, so change leadership is a necessity. Change for the sake of change is not good leadership. Change requires a grounding in a business and societal understanding and discovery from which reasonable policies and strategies arise. Change leadership and common good need a tighter intersection.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

When we have a vested self-interest in a situation, we have difficulty approaching that situation without bias, no matter how well-calibrated we believe our moral compass to be. It is easy to miss or more likely to accept changes in ethical behavior until it’s too late because of this slippery slope effect.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

G ENERAL JAMES MATTIS credits his leadership success to his prodigious reading habits. Reading lists are personal, but they do provide a guide as to what others have read to improve their leadership and their understanding of the human condition. National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear by David Rothkopf.

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Lead from Within

JULY 18, 2017

Many people have different ideas about what makes great business, great leadership, great influence. When you operate without a clearly defined sense of ethics and morality, you will lose respect. Strong leadership begins with learning your priorities and values—being able to articulate them and walk through their implications.

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 22, 2013

One day John, a newly promoted supervisor with Fictional Products, met with his boss, Bill, to discuss a new procedure recently mandated by a change to company policy. Sitting alone in his office, he thought through the following questions: Does this change violate any laws or challenge any personally held moral and ethical considerations?

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Every workshop or planning session I’ve led since returning to in-person sessions earlier this year has discussed approaches or policies to working remotely or hybrid models balancing in-office and at-home work. It showed engagement was slipping, trust was faltering, and morale was waning. Not exactly a people-centered strategy.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

David McCuistion is a Modern Servant Leader subscriber and fellow Servant Leadership advocate. When I heard of his military background, Servant Leadership experience and his platform in Vanguard Organizational Leadership , I asked him for an interview. He kindly obliged, below… Servant Leadership Questions and Answers.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril.

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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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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 21, 2012

The events before, during and after the January 13 tragedy aboard the Costa Concordia point to a true failure of leadership at every level, from the captain who ran the luxury liner aground during a drive by “salute” off the island of Isola del Giglio to the chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi who is denying any responsibility. Where is safety?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 1, 2024

Most organizations want to increase the diversity of both their workforce and their leadership team, but despite these efforts, it’s perhaps fair to say that more progress is required. Moral leadership The researchers analyzed both authentic and ethical leadership styles and their impact on job candidates.

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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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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

In the worst case, a small group of workplace gossipers can seriously impede a company's morale. Review company policy. Zero tolerance for gossip in the workplace should be stated clearly in the company’s policy. While addressing guidelines on ethics-related matters in the employee handbook, gossip should be emphasized.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

’ Here are the actions I have observed about leadership that are mandatory for leadership success. All other leadership characteristics and outcomes fade if there is a lack of truth. If the leader is slack, lacks work ethic, or is slow to decide, they have given tacit permission to their team to be and do the same.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Most companies have ethics and compliance policies that get reviewed and signed annually by all employees. “Employees are charged with conducting their business affairs in accordance with the highest ethical standards,” reads one such example. ” Of course, that policy comes directly from Enron. .”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

By Webster’s definition it means “the steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code; incorruptibility.&# In order to teach it, I must first define it. Integrity; from the Latin root word means “soundness, wholeness or completeness.” I shall teach my friend about that kind of integrity; one of incorruptibility!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Leadership and Change It was a planned change. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Communicate policies and procedures to employees. Written, consistent policies with payables and receivables are followed. Employees know their jobs, are empowered to make decisions and have high morale in carrying the company banner forward. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 22, 2010

As I see it, choosing a behavior, word, or tone that will improve your communication effectiveness is not a moral or ethical issue. In answering this question, I often refer to a Thomas Jefferson quote: In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. It is just a matter of style.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , featured , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , people-oriented people , perception , task-oriented people , understanding , working with people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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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. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. ” Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Take Rohit Kumar, the principal and leader of National Tax Policy Services at PWC, where Adam works. Kumar is well known on Capitol Hill and with global tax experts because he has deep and broad knowledge of the subject and understands the dynamics of how policy will shape up now and in the future. An ethical compass.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2018

Our research was built on moral cleansing theory , which says that people seek to balance their moral and immoral actions and maintain their moral self-image around a desired equilibrium point. In other words, only morally attentive and courageous leaders engaged in reparative actions after mistreating followers.

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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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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

It may be that the companies with female and minority CEOs have progressive policies that promote and reward nonwhites and nonmales. A cynical but plausible explanation comes from research on moral and ethical behavior. It’s entirely possible that these individuals are simply better at their jobs, and thus worth more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 17, 2021

They want to work for an organization that provides challenging and meaningful work; one where policies, procedures, and paperwork are never more important than results; one that rewards its people based on performance rather than an arbitrary metric; and one where winning is never at someone’s expense. Do You Have a Strong Work Ethic?

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Sooner, not later, your smartphone will not only be capable of serving as your shrink — it may also serve as your leadership coach, acting both as Sigmund Freud and Peter Drucker. Will we get to a point where disconnecting depressed or anxious people from their digital diagnostics is seen as ethically or medically irresponsible?

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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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