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Stop. Don't Be Like Google - There is Nothing Situational About Ethics

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I purchased a copy of Eric Schmidt’s book “How Google Works.” I highlighted section after section. I could not wait until my next university class to have the highlights distilled by my students. After all, my teaching was as much about changing behavior as it was about establishing an ethical culture. I had explained there was nothing situational about ethics. The right thing is always the right thing.

My excitement subsided when I recently heard of Google having paid Android founder Andy Ruben over $90 million involving sexual harassment.

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If you lost everything, what could you make with your life?

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If you are struggling in any area of your life and business you should see this. When my marriage of 25 plus years ended I was alone and ashamed. There was no one in the entire world that believed in me. I cried myself to sleep on the beach in San Pedro, Ca crouched in my car. The next step is one you should write down

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Sears: Complacency, Despicable Customer Service and Hedge Fund Leaders Better Suited As Hedge Fund Managers

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There are countless companies similar to Sears, whose leadership has misconstrued NPS as customer service and dedicated employees as "lucky to have a job." Like cows that know how manure smells, employees dispassionately serve those paragons of the corner offices whose delusions obscure them from the warning signs of Sisyphus.

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Bad Traits of Weak Leaders and Impotent Managers

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That work ethic has caused me to appreciate people who took such personal responsibility to turn their lives inside out to become so much more when they started out with so little. Which is why I become bereft when I see people from many organizations placate their insecurities by demeaning colleagues and employees whose abilities and ambitions exceed their own.

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How to Be Happy and Successful

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How many of your dreams will come true? Life is full of uncertainty. Surprises will pop up all along life’s path. Who knows what will happen tomorrow, where you will be in a few years, and what you will be doing? Life is like a suspense novel whose plot is very difficult to guess.

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What Characteristics Make a Great CEO Better?

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Learn the leadership hacks that can make you a better CEO. As humans, we expect and need every day to have a purpose. We need our lives to count. A true purpose is what allows us to find out who we clearly are, to find the meaning in our work, and discover our talents, competencies, and resources of true pride. it is necessary to ensure a fulfilled and a successful life.

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8 Ways to Build Strong Leadership in Turbulent Times

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8 Ways to Build Strong Leadership in Turbulent Times

In an unpredictable economy what can you do to lead you team through murky waters and keep them motivated? Leadership is a contact sport. People want to know their leaders. Know your people and the departments they build. Roll your sleeves up and work on the front-lines. Make your supervisors do the same. Get out of the office as the ivory tower has a very different viewpoint than life meticulously cultivated to encourage them vs us.

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4 Ways of Managing Manipulative People

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Passive-aggressive behavior is destructive and should be addressed as soon as possible (particularly when it is affecting the whole team). Don’t wait for performance evaluations—act now! Learn the powerful strategies for combating passive and aggressive people who can thwart an organizations progress.

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Why Servant Leadership Is Not Friendship

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The consequences of inept leadership and ethics have been calamitous, and the effects are bound to be enduring. One thing is clear: we must do better.  Leaders, managers, and front-line workers should commit to building excellent, ethical, and enduring organizations far removed from selfish underpinnings of power.

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What a Homeless Man Taught Me On Authentic Leadership and Trust

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What was the first decision you made today. Pity? Regret?A lot of people were born in situations they wish had been different. I say to them the “bus” runs everyday. They can change any time they want to providing they cease to being a victim. You can transform your life if you are not who you want to be. You can become the best parent possible.

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The Doing and Being of Authentic Leadership

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How to transform people and achieve business outcomes is a trait of a true leader. However, working on one’s personal persona rather the public persona is what makes one legendary. Your task for your employees is the same as for yourself, to become more effective, authentic individuals and leaders. One must:

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6 Ways To Develop The Right Leadership Competency

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An important characteristic of being an effective teacher is setting a good example.  Leaders must ensure teams and employees develop the passion to feel highly engaged and committed. The behavior of the leader will function more as an example than any organizational tenets. Without a philosophy, our actions will lack consistency because they will simply be reactions to the behaviors

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Why We Prefer Failure Over Success

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What if we are instead marching more towards mediocrity than success. Avoiding failure and success. The slow ebb of normalizing mediocrity.

What if we convinced ourselves that we were putting it all out there and giving it everything we had despite knowing that we weren't? We'd still get the pats on the back and could walk away from it lamenting for all to hear "it just wasn't meant to be." Then we could go back to what we knew content with failure until it becomes routine.

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Do you have ‘unconscious bias’ in hiring and promotions?

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Unconscious bias isn’t as apparent as reprimanding an employee for using foul language, recruiting only a certain class or passing someone over for a promotion. In our experience, the most unconscious bias is revealed

Employee Engagement and Customer Service Strategies

How does one empower their people so they deliver exceptional customer service? Customer service is actually nebulous. It’s a vague concept that varies based on your organization, product, enterprise, and culture. Many items make this up, yet there are some employee empowerment ideas that go beyond the organization.