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4 Reasons We Struggle with Ethics

Leading Blog

Ethics is about who we are. Ethics is not so much about what is happening around us, it’s much more about what is going on inside of us. Understanding the difference is critical to being a person with good ethics. Ethics are not concerned about what we can do, but what we should do. We think ethics is about rules.

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Ethical Leaders And Workplace Culture: The Foundation Of Ethical Decision Making

Great Leadership By Dan

Steven Mintz: Ethical leaders create a culture in the workplace that promotes moral values and establishes an ethical tone at the top. Creating an ethical culture means setting a standard that decisions are made and actions are taken that are right, not wrong; good, not bad; and they benefit the stakeholders of the organization.

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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. When does cost saving become worker exploitation?

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Is Your Service Ethical?

Lead Change Blog

The manner my dad handled a Hightower cow invasion and how Mr. Hightower handled the exact same scenario was a powerful lesson in the ethics of service. Ethics is far more than morality—it is the very substance of all relationships. Hightower’s front lawn; his cows loitered south along the highway beside our pasture to visit our cows.

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Ethical Leaders Bolster Creativity In Their Teams

The Horizons Tracker

This can make the cost of ethical failure much higher than it would otherwise have been if unethical behavior was not flushed into the open. Indeed, ethical leaders could be construed as those who always follow the rules and comply with company policies, with creatives those more inclined to bend rules and challenge norms.

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Leadership is Black and White

N2Growth Blog

I was skimming through headlines on my RSS feed this past weekend when a particular title caught my eye – it simply read: “ Situational Ethics.&# Situational Ethics – Really? Life is full of areas that benefit from flexibility, fluidity, context, and other forms of nuanced thinking, but ethics isn’t one of them.

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The Toxic Leader

N2Growth Blog

Yet rather than being weeded out, they seem to survive and thrive in an institutional ethic that values by choosing short term greed over longer-term value and culture. One, let’s call him the ‘seagull’, has produced great performance short term by moving in changing everything, slashing costs and people, then leaving.