Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

The idea that leaders are trustworthy, honest, and can be relied on to operate in the best interest of the public, the employee, the student, the parishioner, or even the shareholder has been shattered. T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Ethical Leadership. Many global factors are driving changes in ethical leadership expectations, and in high-stakes times, how we handle ethical leadership development can make or break our success. Find Linda on Twitter at @leadingincontxt.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

Acquaintance with how systems think can be helpful in troubleshooting, understanding limitations, and explaining the operation of cognitive technologies.”. This skill cannot be stressed enough. “As “Knowing the logic and flow of a computer system is important for anyone who works alongside or oversees smart machines.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 27, 2023

The world’s largest trial of a four-day working week recently reported that the workforce experienced significantly reduced stress and illness rates, with 71% of employees indicating lower levels of “burnout” and 39% reporting decreased stress compared to the beginning of the trial.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Economic advantages are created when you surround yourself with the advice, counsel and co-operation of a group of reliable people who are willing to lend wholehearted support, collaborate and promote your cause. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds provided May the Force be with You: Ethical Leadership During Discontinuous Change.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

Plenty of proactive companies are shifting and adjusting their operations to incorporate sustainable practices. Improved operations and lower expenses. Smart energy utilization will enable your business to curb inflating energy costs and achieve operational efficiency. Enhanced corporate social responsibility.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lack of understanding about this often leads to increased levels of turnover and increased costs in hiring replacements, both at the management (CEO) level or at operational levels, not just in terms of HR cost but also the time that could have been saved had this understanding been reached much earlier. .

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. Complexity alienates customers, contaminates cultures, heightens stress, and increases the cost of doing business. They divested both businesses and discontinued several other products including golf clubs and bags. 1 Big Idea .

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

Those accelerated companies were much less effective, and people much more stressed than the more strategic companies. Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2021

Such managers are supportive and themselves have a very strict work ethic that is held up as an example to emulate and are generally well respected in the organization. Stress is often quoted as the reason for turning to some form of substance abuse to help to tackle it. Long innings at the workplace.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

If you’re currently unable to resolve differences about money and spending, these situations usually get worse rather than better under the stresses of building a business. Do you really prefer those stresses over the challenges of working a regular job? Do you have children or family members you need to support financially?

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 27, 2012

These days, it seems that the same common concepts are stressed over and over in order to ensure team success. When people operate from low levels of well-being, they dwell on their differences. Do not stress communication. I found this article to be very challenging to my own thinking and current paradigms.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Inspire new dimensions to corporate philanthropy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

While even the word ‘negotiation’ can evoke fear, stress and anxiety for many, the intent is quite simple: to discuss and ultimately agree on a deal. It’s a mindset you have to operate from in order to become not just a good negotiator, but a great one. Thinking something is non-negotiable. Not building relationships first.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

If you have an employee that demonstrates severe emotional mood swings on the job and in their relationships with others, you need to pursue the proper legal and ethical guidelines in dealing with the employee and getting them the support they need.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2012

By Garret Kramer These days, it seems that the same common concepts are stressed over and over in order to ensure team success. When people operate from low levels of well-being, they dwell on their differences. Do not stress communication. Discourage the creation of a pecking order. Do not adhere to a specific team "culture."

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. I share a bit of my journey in Leadership Development Made Easy.”.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Even though the tasks mount up, you have a knack for performing magnificently under deadline, stress and high expectations. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Even though the tasks mount up, you have a knack for performing magnificently under deadline, stress and high expectations. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This was a great reason why I started Stress Release Reminders, because I LOVE helping others live a healthy, more positive life. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Most people spend 1/3 of their work day there, & it is important to stay true to what is most important in your life.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. One consultant stressed the ability to “set the strategic direction” for the organization; another equated strategic thinking with “integrative leadership.” Many respondents stressed technology skills and technical literacy. “A One said that hiring companies want “unquestioned ethics.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

If determining whether your employees are losing their ability to effectively process ideas and information costs next to nothing , aren't you ethically obligated to find that out? While personal and professional pain around the likely loss of one's faculties is unavoidable, the legal and ethical implications have only begun to be addressed.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ve seen several (entrepreneur) CEOs who suffer from this Jekyl/Hyde personality, most likely due to the extreme stresses of starting/running a self-funded business. Elated and encouraging one day, and scowling and demeaning the next. I would also suggest that attitude plays a huge difference in the equation as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Others will be stressful. With the pressure (or excitement) of finding a new job, it's all too easy to pursue a job opportunity or to accept an offer with only a hazy view of how the institution really operates. Learn how the organization operates. They'll stimulate your success and growth. How should I learn?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

But at the same time, they seem to operate by a set of hidden principles designed to prevent innovations from surfacing or succeeding. Stress predictability above all. Blame problems on the incompetent people below — their weak skills and poor work ethic. Stress substance over form, action over calendar.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. The security sector also dabbles in Emotion AI to detect stressed or angry people. Scaling to group settings can have an Orwellian feeling: Concerns about privacy, creativity, and individuality have these experiments playing on the edge of ethical acceptance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Integrity in all dealings means taking the interests of other parties taken into account, operating with a long-term perspective rather than short-term greed or sensationalism. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Victimization carries with it (in addition to its literal burden of pain and immediate loss), a syndrome known as “subordination stress.” Like all forms of stress, it leads to physical effects, such as heightened blood pressure, reduced sex steroids, adrenal hyper-stimulation and, if continued long enough, ulcers. Ditto for revenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Time is viewed as limited in supply, so Western people structure their lives, especially business operations, by milestones and deadlines. Failure to meet them could be interpreted as having a poor work ethic or being incompetent. Even if you work for the same parent company, different locations have different protocols and operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

He carries the intriguing title of Professor of the Philosophy and Ethics of information at the University of Oxford implying that the revolution is as much about issues of morality, identity and meaning as it is about technology. A self-driving car is magic until the operating system freezes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. And at Björn Borg, their key performance indicators have improved after Bunge was brought in as CEO : net sales increased by 27% between 2013 and 2016, and operating profits tripled.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

It's about survival in an increasingly resource-stressed world. The "invisible hand" operated as kind of god-like machine that sorted everything out for us, excusing human beings for our more nefarious, selfish inclinations. It's really about what our ancestors did. It is human. It is real. It is about sustainability.

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