A few years ago, I taught Ethics to Drexel U students who were just entering the business world. According to their evaluation forms, their work lives were deeply impacted by class. However, ethics is a living, breathing, adaptive science and can’t be taught like Math. I’ve learned from years of leadership [...]
There is an emerging awareness of a high return on investment in principals but we still don’t really know, and certainly can’t adequately measure, the value of values. True leadership requires respecting your own inner GPS and creating a workplace ethic for principled and inspired action.
We are past the tipping point [...]
I just read an article on BNet called, ‘Truthiness’ Can Make or Break a Corporation, by Jeffrey Pfeffer (May 20th, 2010 @ 8:00 am). “Truthiness” is a word Stephen Colbert coined to talk about how a business or news item “smells.” The truthiness factor is a sniff test – you can smell truth or [...]
This is from the Huffington Post. I think John Perkins has critical perspective and wisdom for our times.
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Fake Accounting, Greed and Oil
by John Perkins
While countries around the world continue to watch their economies collapse, and Goldman-Sachs leaders testify to Congress about how they manipulated both their shareholders [...]
I use Facebook and Twitter professionally so I have lots of connections there who I don’t know. I’m amazed by how many requests I get from people I know and don’t know about how they need to finish some project in a virtual world and they want me to contribute my time to creating their [...]
Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can’t go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.” Rumi
Makes me think of my trip to remote Malawi last year. Much light came from the exploration.
from: http://www.smartbrief.com/news/leadership
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth
I’m often asked if there is a simple test that can be used to quickly determine an executive’s leadership ability? The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. [...]
Please help me with some research by answering this poll question on LinkedIn:
Do you believe a new values-driven leadership paradigm is emerging and that an old profit-at-any-cost paradigm is collapsing?
It’s funny, there’s no doubt that the work I do is progressive but the irony is that values-driven leadership is fundamentally what the founding fathers envisioned when they drew up the Constitution. So, at the heart of the matter, it’s pretty conservative! Especially in a capitalist system, liberty and justice for all starts in the [...]
There is an emerging awareness of a high return on investment in principals but we still don’t really know, and certainly can’t adequately measure, the value of values. True leadership requires respecting your own inner GPS and creating a workplace ethic for principled and inspired action.
We are past the tipping point in [...]
