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Five Qualities Genuine Leaders Have in Common

Leading Blog

It surveyed top professionals from more than 120 countries about the skills needed for effective leadership in the decade ahead. Millennials and Generation Z crave purpose as well as ethical behaviors from their bosses. A recent MIT study underscores this. Today’s workers also want autonomy and empowerment.

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Catching the Liar in All of Us

Coaching Tip

In The Leadership Challenge , James Kouzes and Barry Posner point out how important honesty is in a leader and how it ranks first among employee expectations, surpassing even competence: "In every survey we conducted, honesty was selected more often than any other leadership characteristic.". Leadership Blind Spots.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. ” -Stan Silverman. How to Earn Trust.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Commission customer and employee surveys. This includes repeating surveys to assure that you are making adequate progress.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Surveying 180 teams of employees and managers at U.S. Instead, reassess your motivational tactics (and be sure to retrain managers to be mindful of the pressure they are applying).

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Dating the boss, crossing an invisible line?

HR Digest

According to surveys, a quarter of American workers now say they have merrily dipped their pen in the company ink. Everyone will naturally think that the person sleeping with the boss will have the inside scoop on promotions, pay and information, and that undermines trust in leadership, cautions Robert Chestnut, Airbnb’s Chief Ethics Officer.

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If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Three years ago, 37% of CEOs were concerned about a lack of trust in businesses, according to the PwC Annual Global CEO survey. For example, traditional leadership training often focused on rule enforcement, which is akin to parent-child communication and not how trustworthy adults function. As Stephen M.