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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. No leader sets out to become obsolete, and developing leadership habits is a competitive advantage. Why develop future-proof leadership skills? Well-equipped leadership makes a difference.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Compelling evidence indicates that leadership moderates company performance and results. But, maybe you feel the importance of effective leadership is often overstated and are somewhat skeptical of the real impact leadership has on a business. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? 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. Not necessarily.

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Thought Leadership Traits

Chad Barr

This week’s reflection point: I am here in Palm Beach, Florida, participating in Alan Weiss’s Thought Leadership Symposium. Have strong work ethics. © Chad Barr 2014. The post Thought Leadership Traits appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Here is what we quickly came up with. Are risk-takers.

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How a Bad Company Culture Impacts Business Results

LSA Global

When there is no “true north” or accountability for acting in a fair, open and ethical way, a bad company culture can promote unethical behavior that negatively affects not only the workforce but also a company’s customers. Just as employees can be buoyed by a positive environment, they can be sickened by unethical leadership.

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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business

Reading the report with that lens can help leaders better understand the biases that get in the way of ethical conduct and ethical organizations. Researchers call this “moral hypocrisy” and have demonstrated the great lengths people will go to in order to be seen as ethical. Performance over principles.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Empathy, we found, is correlated with ethics, and any ethical failure can prove costly. billion ($1.39 billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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