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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. They require careful analysis, not gut feeling or simplistic platitudes.

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How to Solve Our Wild Problems

Leading Blog

T HERE ARE PROBLEMS that can be solved by a simple cost-benefit analysis. The big decisions in life, what Russ Roberts calls Wild Problems — whether to marry, who to marry, what career path to follow, ethical dilemmas — “can’t be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.”. Sunk costs are sunk.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization or their boss owes them and should do for them and obsess over the authority they 'should have,' thus rendering themselves ineffectual. You become disempowered when you focus on what others have done to make things wrong--not what you can do to make things right.

Influence 135
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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter?” I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. Learn from the Mistakes of A Rotten Culture. So many of the things leaders do that create lousy cultures are decisions that produce quick payoffs. That’s what Wells Fargo did.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization and their superiors ‘owe’ them and should do for them. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Changing Expectations for Followers There was a time in the not too distant past when followership essentially meant, “be quiet and do whatever I tell you to do.” The Civil Rights and more recent Tea Party movements are good examples of what happens when angry followers decide to do something to change the status quo.