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How to Avoid the Artificial Maturity Trap

Leading Blog

Children today are overexposed to information far earlier than they are ready and underexposed to real-life experiences far later than they are ready producing a kind of artificial maturity. Tim Elmore writes in Artificial Maturity , that “it looks so real because kids know so much, but it’s virtual because they have experienced so little.”

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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. But how does one recognize ethical competence?

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The Evolving Influence of the Chief Digital Officer on Enterprise Strategy

N2Growth Blog

As enterprises at every stage of maturity strengthen their digital capabilities, the Chief Digital Officer has emerged as a strategic force within the executive suite. This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements.

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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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Are You a Disruptive Mentor?

Lead Change Blog

His impeccable ethics honed values that encouraged wholeness, honesty, and respect. It was daddy’s way of nudging along my maturity. Great Mentor-Leaders Have Impeccable Ethics. The most important lesson I learned was this: teaching is an ethical act! Ray Bell was never my teacher in the formal sense of that word.

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Management Futures: An ethical dilemma, and a dilemma of ethics

Chartered Management Institute

Shortly after the banking crisis, commentator Umair Haque observed in a Harvard Business Review blog that: ‘Every financial collapse is really just an ethical collapse that happened a few years earlier.’

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The Mistake We Make When Trying To Be Fair

Lead Change Blog

I’m a leader working with mature adults, yet I’ve found that not much is different from coaching kids in baseball. People should be treated equitably and ethically, given their individual needs and circumstances, and the differences between people should be recognized and valued, not diminished.

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