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Category Archives: Ethics

Will lead for food

Monday, May 19, 2008

Never mind asking what leadership is – let’s start by asking what it does. We have enough people jumping into the pool trying to make the biggest splash over definitions of leadership and leaders – especially by setting up disparaging comparisons with management and managers. But how many people actually start from the beginning?

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A bridge too low

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The “it can’t happen here” syndrome is persistent, and consistently defies experience. Why is that? I recently read about a bridge in a developing economy that had been built too low for traffic to pass under it. The solution? . . .

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Good intentions

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

One of the great dilemmas of the modern world of work - one that, one way or another, is reflected in much of the thinking and writing about management today - is found in the conflict between personal morals and business ethics. . .

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Just business

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Remember that saying from the old mafia movies? Both sides knew and accepted that events had developed to the point where one wiseguy was going to have to deal with another. Nothing personal. Just business. Over the past two days we have reviewed the preparation and conduct of a negotiation that popped up regarding the organization of a prominent speaker’s inclusion at a conference. . .

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Trust and shared values

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A discussion of the importance of values in the context of business and management can be conducted across a wide range of domains occupied by the individuals, formal and informal communities, organizations, societies, and cultures that are affected by them. Each has its own values, which influence and are influenced by all the others. As a result, an organization, to be effective, must comprehend this environment, achieve an understanding of its own place in it, and integrate that awareness consciously into its corporate goals. But there is another fundamentally related issue, here . . .

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