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From Expert to Trusted Advisor: The Role of ISO 20700 in Management Consulting

Effective Managers

Focusing on Ethical Practices Ethics are at the core of the ISO 20700 guidelines. This focus on ethical consulting practices reassures clients that they are engaging with a professional who values integrity and ethical decision-making.

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The ISO 20700 Checklist: A Game-Changer for Management Consultants

Effective Managers

It ensures that consultants cover all critical aspects of a project, from initiation to delivery, aligning with global standards of quality and ethical practice. Encouraging Ethical Practices Ethical conduct is at the heart of the ISO 20700 standard, and the checklist reinforces this.

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Don’t Try to Be the “Fun Boss” — and Other Lessons in Ethical Leadership

Harvard Business

We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., We combined data across these 30 independent studies to examine the relationship between personality and ethical leadership across a range of different settings and situations. Creating an Ethical Workplace. But power does not corrupt everyone.

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Corporate Ethics Can’t Be Reduced to Compliance

Harvard Business

However, one of the more unsettling and unintended consequences of a singular focus on ethics-as-compliance is a checkbox mentality that gives the illusion of reducing risk without really doing so. So what can a company do to excel ethically? Plato emphasized a virtue-based system of ethics 2,400 years ago in his Academy.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. It sought to make things better. link] Weinstein, B.

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Praising Customers for Ethical Purchases Can Backfire

Harvard Business

In one study, participants viewed a short 40-second Starbucks commercial that either praised a customer for making an ethical purchase (it used phrasing such as: “Everything we do, you do.

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A Simple Exercise Can Help Women Overcome Self-Doubt to Succeed

Harvard Business

Other participants were prompted to do a similar writing exercise, but about other values (including institutional ones). As part of our second study we asked a subset of participants how much self-doubt they felt approximately three weeks before their final exams (five weeks after they had completed the values writing exercise).