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Values-driven leaders don’t fall into these traps because their footing is on much more stable ground than the power-mongers referred to by this Wall Street Journal article. Coaches are often called in to reign in obnoxious leaders but when coaching starts before leaders fall into this kind of trap, they have a better understanding of [...]

from: BNET/The Corner Office blog
When a brilliant idea isn’t so brilliant:
Focusing energy on a project just because it’s “brilliant” does not always justify diverting time and resources from other company goals, Steve Tobak writes. He argues that pet projects can lead to a loss of focus and increased opportunity cost. [...]

“Life will throw a lot of pies in your face, and there will be days when you can’t get out of your own way — so there better be something big that sustains you.”
–Eileen Gittins, founder of Blurb, writing in Forbes

“The World is crying out for a new way of doing business. When the social enterprise concept becomes known and begins to spread through all free market economies, the flood of creativity it will unleash has the potential to transform our world”
~ Muhammad Yunus, winner Nobel Peace Prize 2006

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 [...]