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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. But how does one recognize ethical competence?

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How to Avoid the Artificial Maturity Trap

Leading Blog

Children today are overexposed to information far earlier than they are ready and underexposed to real-life experiences far later than they are ready producing a kind of artificial maturity. Tim Elmore writes in Artificial Maturity , that “it looks so real because kids know so much, but it’s virtual because they have experienced so little.”

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The Ethical Implications Of Digital Transformation

The Horizons Tracker

The scale of this split was emphasized in the latest version of the annual digital survey conducted by Deloitte and the MIT Sloan Management Review, which found that 80% of respondents in digitally mature businesses were able to successfully cultivate relationships with companies that supercharge their digital innovation.

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How to Prepare Your Workforce for the Future of Work

Lead from Within

Building a Moral Framework for Machine Decisions: With AI making more decisions in the business, ethical considerations are becoming crucial. Leaders should work on creating ethical guidelines for AI operations to ensure fairness and transparency.

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Management Futures: An ethical dilemma, and a dilemma of ethics

Chartered Management Institute

Shortly after the banking crisis, commentator Umair Haque observed in a Harvard Business Review blog that: ‘Every financial collapse is really just an ethical collapse that happened a few years earlier.’

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Great Leadership Trains

Career Advancement

A lot of the personality traits that make for highly effective leaders are built on a solid foundation of emotional maturity and drive. Leaders’ honesty and ability to follow a set of ethics in all of their work affects their ability to influence their followers. Here are the most essential traits that great leaders have.

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Avoid the 1 Mistake Managers Make When Trying to be Fair

Leading with Trust

I’m a leader working with mature adults, yet I’ve found that not much is different from coaching kids in baseball. People should be treated equitably and ethically, given their individual needs and circumstances, and the differences between people should be recognized and valued, not diminished.