Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. This means they are making decisions in full consciousness of their sense of purpose, ethics, and values. Leaders with the right temperament and character are necessary during times of uncertainty.

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McKinsey Emotional Intelligence Crisis Self-aware 298

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s about creating a pathway for new hires to understand, adapt, and align with the company’s ethos, vision, and operational methodologies. These are designed to familiarize new employees with the company’s historical background, core values, ethics, and overarching culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

His candid admission offers a rare glimpse into the inner world of a visionary leader, one grappling with the ethical and social implications of his work. Imagine practicing complex procedures in a simulated operating room or mastering new sales techniques in a virtual customer interaction.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 13, 2013

It’s] emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. On the other hand, have you ever had a coworker who had an amazing work ethic? Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance. It fuels our daily lives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Are people more ethical or less ethical when they negotiate with a foreigner instead of a fellow countryman? and China, conducted with coauthor Chao Wang, we looked at how likely people were to use unethical or ethically questionable tactics, like telling lies or offering bribes, depending on who they were negotiating with.

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Ethics Tactics Reputation Participative 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Drew Conway and I discussed his company Alluvium, which “uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by industrial operations into insights.” Ethics is among the field’s biggest challenges.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Today, as chairman of APCO Worldwide’s China operations , I have a deep view into the China operations of dozens of multinationals, and through that I can see that management in China is going through yet another phase. The work ethic of Chinese employees is still fierce. Their ambitions remain formidable.

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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. Helping them to constantly grow directly affects engagement, retention and performance.

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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. In exchange, a fitness leader can offer a sense certainty, justice, and camaraderie in a time where employees are otherwise plagued by uncertainty, injustice, and isolation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. 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. What we do with fear and uncertainty determines who we are.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

My firm employs a little less than 100 people; we have no debt, we pay vendors on time, and have always operated a profitable business. The work ethic has shifted to people who can understand and appreciate hard work, a sensibility that is lost today on many of America’s emerging workforce. Public Relations Agencies, 5WPR.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Businesses of all sizes are besieged with opportunities, competing information sources and large amounts of uncertainty. Reduce costly organizational problems with planning on the front end.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2021

The company had to decide: Should a drug designed to treat HIV patients be diverted to people with Covid-19 instead?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. It is a simple, clear, and highly useful criterion — for routine decisions in businesses operating in competitive markets and with sound legal systems. But, for gray area decisions , the standard answer isn’t the right answer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.

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