Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 3, 2013

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Plato (paraphrased). Politics are about power, the acquisition of power, the distribution of power, the uses and abuses of power. Any relationship--personal or professional--becomes political the moment power is introduced. "In

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2019

Whether I was coaching a bunch of energetic 5-year-old kids in tee-ball where we didn’t keep an official score of the game, or with older kids playing a practice game against one another or an opposing team, the kids always kept score of who was winning and losing. So how can leaders be fair and build trust with their team members?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

The pandemic has shown that leadership skills fundamentally matter, and also highlighted what leadership skills are particularly important in navigating uncertainty – in politics, business, and in our personal lives. Embracing empathy within teams. It takes cooperation across the team to sustain purpose.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 31, 2023

A reader writes… Hi Jane, We are confronted with a challenging situation at our workplace where a coworker’s toxic behavior is causing considerable distress among the team members. Their behavior not only affects your own work but also impacts the entire team. So, let’s dive in and reclaim your voice!

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

A connection to community, society, and a common good requires a greater conversation with a diverse group of team members and citizens. Common Good: Dignity and Ethics. Kipper (2017) points out how dignity is too often ignored as an ethical value, leaving injustices in place rather than stepping up to the challenges.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. Be a model for your team. It is critical for you to be consistent and clear about your ethical standards. Don’t be a political animal.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2020

A Jus Cause must be for something (affirmative and optimistic), inclusive (open to all those who would like to contribute), service-oriented (for the primary benefit of others), resilient (able to endure political, technological and cultural change), idealistic (big, bold and ultimately unachievable). Build Trusting Teams.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Upon examination, I discovered it contained in a series of typical bromides like “We don't do politics” or “Be passionate” or “Go for the best” along with a promise for pizza on Fridays. It also implies a close understanding of the emotional life of the team. To understand an effective culture you need to start in a different place.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Learn about 3 lessons from the political realm that inform us on how leaders can successfully champion change initiatives in their organization. Miller of The People Equation brings us 9 Things Team Members Want to Know About the New Boss, but Won’t Ask. As the world changes, ethical expectations change. Jennifer V.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 7, 2021

Self-serving leadership looks like a president publicly humiliating and denigrating his own team members. Self-serving leadership looks like senators and congressmen and women vocally supporting their leader’s lies or remaining silent in the face of his atrocious behavior in order to protect their own political future.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2016

In this election year, as a leader you may have to wrestle with what is acceptable in regards to politics in your organization. Patriotism and politics are synonymous in the vocabulary of some, while diametrically opposed terms for others! Lively discussions are bound to happen with politics, elections and various issues that come up.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

They all: · Made fact-based decisions · Built great teams · Made ethics a part of the culture · Engaged listeners · Evaluate constantly · Embraced change · Inspired Make fact-based decisions At the start of each morning, Craig Ryden—the CEO of Yankee Candle—would look at the sales from the previous day in great detail.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Accepting responsibility for your actions, or the actions of your team makes you honorable, and trustworthy – it also humanizes you. The fastest way to lose respect as a leader is to focus on optics over ethics. If you’re more concerned about political fallout than solving the problem, you have failed as a leader.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture shared Ethical Culture at Work. Check out these four ethical tests—and see how you can influence others for the better.”

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The Idolbuster

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the last post , I embedded a video in which Harvard Business Review authors Kent Lineback and Linda Hill champion the cause of using politics for good purposes. I know that politics is like kryptonite to many people, in part because politics can be so illogical, unethical, or just plain mean.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

But, is it possible to create emotionally intelligent teams? Wolff assert that emotional intelligence underlies the effective processes of successful teams and that such resulting processes cannot be imitated; they must originate from genuine emotional intelligence at the team level.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Rubin likes to say that if we treated relay races the way we treat our team members, we’d tell them, “I’m not paying you to stand here. However, the team that wins the relay race is the team that gets the baton across the finish line first, not the team that had runners running the most. I’m paying you to run.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 28, 2014

It’s too easy to get caught up in the sweep of immoral decisions and ethical misconduct when you allow yourself to be distracted and pulled along by what other leaders are doing. You do what is honorable even if you get labelled as a renegade, an outlier, or someone who isn’t a team player.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 2, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 10 Tips For Holiday Party Etiquette. This is a time to test and hone your connecting, social, and political skills. Establish A Contract With Your Team.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 29, 2013

In my book, 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership , I describe four principles that work together to provide a clear and actionable moral compass : . Leaders who demonstrate personal congruence demonstrate it across contexts, applying the highest ethical standards in all of their roles. .

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 10, 2020

Ken Marlin 's book, The Marine Corps Way To Win On Wall Street , is all about a Marine-turned-banker's tactics for succeeding ethically, and more specifically about 11 key principles from battlefield to boardroom. They cannot solve everything -- but perhaps the various experts on their team can.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 21, 2017

Bringing a new team member onto your team can be a scary experience. Finding the right people to join your team can be tough. Adding Team Members. Anytime you add or remove someone, the dynamics of your team changes. The new team member will bring with him different traits and personality quirks.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 17, 2021

The economic and hence political norms may thus take on the characteristics of authoritarian leadership. When they do, it grants permission to other members of the team to change. Leadership needs to be done by more than just the leadership team. Recognize that you can’t achieve or tick off goals of ethical behavior or balance.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The fastest way to lose respect as a leader is to focus on optics over ethics. If you’re more concerned about political fallout than solving the problem you have failed as a leader. Accepting responsibility for your actions, or the actions of your team makes you honorable, and trustworthy – it also humanizes you.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Notwithstanding politics, nowhere is the notion of upward mobility more prevalent than in the world of business. I’d rather it be about us, about the team. If you do, you need to reassess your values and ethics. Inherent in the definition of career is the opportunity to progress. Getting ahead” was my father’s way of saying it.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 27, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Are You In A Slump At Work? (My Establish A Contract With Your Team. executive coach. Here’s the entire article. Happy Birthday IBM! How To Make Wonderful Mistakes.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 21, 2019

Whether I was coaching a bunch of energetic five-year old kids in tee-ball where we didn’t keep an official score of the game, or with older kids playing a practice game against one another or an opposing team, the kids always kept score of who was winning and losing. So how can leaders be fair and build trust with their team members?

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 8, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Are You Late, Again? It’s polite and let’s them know that my time is important without insulting them. Establish A Contract With Your Team.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

There are the obvious facets, like a person who refuses to practice dirty politics and only speaks well of others. They do not gossip, nor do they allow this from their teams. If the leader has strong morals or ethics, they will often need to trust their instincts. But it usually goes deeper than that. Don’t do it.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 12, 2016

A business woman politely said this to everyone who offered her a card, “Thanks. Workplace performance systems and compensation programs reward “winner take all” and “conquering hero” actions more than collaborative, team-oriented endeavors in which employees freely share information and help with one another. Here you go.”.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Even more, we have a moral and ethical business obligation to be savvy in how the world works. By this, I mean being aware of the nuances of political systems, cultural norms, and psychological mindsets of whom we do business with and for. Manage high-performing teams. Understand customer behavior. Negotiate with vendors.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2013

Organizations masked the realities inside by plastering Public Relations material that claimed outstanding ethics, morals and interests in their people and consumers. Want to bury the real culture of your company’s backstabbing politics and singular focus on the investor? Leadership Veneers. Thankfully, this has changed.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 5, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why I Love Starbucks. Their staff is always polite, engaging, and sometimes even fun to interact with. Establish A Contract With Your Team. Everyone loves it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

These noble families also held positions of power in the English political system, from which they were able to pass laws that protected their privileges and claims. It was a system that remained essentially unchanged for centuries, and it assured these families a continuous flow of income to maintain their wealth across generations.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

An examination of the text found on their company’s webpage simply titled “Our Values” reveals this telling statement: “All team members should know our values so well that if our policy manuals didn’t exist, we would still make decisions based on our common understanding of our culture and what we stand for. Watch what they do.”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Ken Marlin 's book, The Marine Corps Way To Win On Wall Street , is all about a Marine-turned-banker's tactics for succeeding ethically, and more specifically about 11 key principles from battlefield to boardroom. They cannot solve everything -- but perhaps the various experts on their team can.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Do You Deliver Good Or Bad Customer Service? So I put on my best Rich Gee smile and politely asked for the manager. Establish A Contract With Your Team.

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