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1. What are specific ethical behaviors that are required of all leaders? 2. What are the consequences if they don’t behave ethically? 3. What are the situations that people that people encounter that could lead them into a grey area? 4. How should grey areas be handled? 5. How should people make decisions when they…
1. Executives can be taught or encouraged to do more than analyze, to step out from behind the finanical analytical lens and come from an issue from the perspective of right and wrong and an appropriate balance of values. 2.A strong ethical leadership needs a strong moral compass.(which is really the right way to think…
By far my favorite quote in recent months….
“The current crisis was not caused by subprime mortgages, credit default swaps or failed economic policies. The root cause is failed leadership.”
-Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic and best selling author
When I started to focus on the morality of business and leadership in my research, I surveyed some past clients in my inner circle, for their definition of moral awareness. One of the most striking definitions I received was the following: “Moral awareness is when one is in touch with our innate sense of morality…
A recent survey report by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)and the Ethics Resource Center (ERC), “The Ethics Landscape in American Business,” had me out of my desk chair, doing the ‘happy dance.’ The report stated that “ethics can be defined as a philosophy principle concerned with opinions about appropriate and inappropriate moral conduct or…
