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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This is my favorite because it addresses fear, a huge negative (and silent) driver that keeps leaders from speaking up against injustice, lack of ethics, morality issues and other things that damage individuals and people in our organizations. Randy Conley , Leading with Trust , picked Five Leadership Lessons From the Life of Neil Armstrong.

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Taking on the Sports Establishment

Women's Leadership Exchange

Headlines report on the screams of French fans claiming that Lance Armstrong only won the Tour de France because he?s As the details unraveled, I realized that Nancy Zimpher was taking on the sports establishment, in what is an incredibly courageous stand for ethics and standards in university sports and education. But lately I?ve

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.). He told me that I must think like a world-class visionary, grow into the role and not just remain a radio DJ.

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Best Human Resource Books to Make Management Easy for Beginners

HR Digest

You get to learn and understand different ethics and skills from reading the true-life experiences of other HR personnel—it’s a good way to learn honestly. . The book explains the ethics needed for a human resource manager to thrive in their industry. The Essential HR Book by Authors Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell.

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds , from Driving Results Through Culture , examines Lance Armstrong's fall from grace from the perspective of personal integrity: Personal Integrity is in Your Hands. Guy Farmer , from Self-Awareness Workshops presents Business Ethics and Rationalization. Corporate culture guru S.

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How to Have a Year that Matters

Harvard Business Review

If you're going to live a life that matters, you need an ethical compass: a belief system with a true north that points toward values that are in some sense enduringly, meaningfully good. And so respect is earned — and love given — not just to those who pander, but those who matter. Where's your true north?

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