Do the findings published in this Harvard Business Review article surprise you or are they consistent with your own assumptions?
Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Compassion, Forgiveness, Gratitude Are Keys To Winning Business Race
January 30th, 2012 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Ethical Development, Leadership, Organizational EthicsThe title says it all. A very insightful article by Jim Noertz who is a compliance director at Bausch and Lomb, and has global responsibility for developing, evaluating and supporting the company’s compliance and ethics programs.
Developing Mindful Leaders
December 31st, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Decision Making, Ethics training, LeadershipThis article asks and answers the question” what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda?”As they note ““Management education must be designed to create a heightened and enlightened ‘consciousness.Management training has traditionally focused on helping leaders develop a particular portfolio of cognitive skills: left-brain thinking, deductive reasoning, analytical problem solving, and solutions engineering. Tomorrow’s managers will require new skills, among them reflective or double-loop learning, systems-based thinking, creative problem solving, and values-driven thinking. Business schools and companies must redesign training programs to help executives develop such skills and reorient management systems to encourage their application.”
So how would we recognize mindful leaders from an ethics perspective?
Boards of Directors and Compliance: 4 Areas of Inquiry by Thomas Fox
December 27th, 2011 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, Leadership, Organizational Ethics“In an article in the December 2011 issue of Compliance Week magazine entitled “Board Checklist: What Every Director Should Know,” author Jaclyn Jaeger reported on a panel discussion at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2011 Annual Meeting, held in October. The discussion was centered on four core areas upon which directors should focus their attention: (1) structure, (2) culture, (3) areas of risk and (4) forecasts.”
Some Ethical Dimensions to Robotics
December 20th, 2011 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in CSR, Ethical Development, Leadership, Organizational Ethics“Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society–and ethics–change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. “
Ethics Shaped the Lives of Great People in World History
November 24th, 2010 by NSteinberg | No Comments | Filed in LeadershipI am back after a bout with a virus.It did slow me down somewhat It gave me an opportunity to read,meditate and do a considerable amount of reflection.I was struck with this article this morning .It is a narrative describing the role of ethics in shaping the lives of some of the most famous people in world history.People who are know for their good works.
That led me to thinking how many other “great” people there are out there who are silently or anonymously accomplishing greatness, that we do not know about.How much more we would be inspired just to know they live on our street or deliver our mail or our pizza?
I would encourage you to be on the lookout for them in your daily lives.Should you be fortunate enough to meet them please write and let us know.
Making Decisions on Values, Not Biases
June 6th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Business Ethics, Decision Making, Leadership“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose” Khalil Gibran
“The sustainability of a corporation depends upon the decision-making capacity of its workers, both individually and collectively, but research shows that human judgment is generally flawed and continuously pervaded by psychological biases. Managers can address these biases and create more effective processes and teams by relying on personal and organizational values in decision-making. “
Jonathan Doochin
Tags: Decision Making, Leadership
The Upside of Irrationality
June 5th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Decision Making, LeadershipEthical decision making models that have been developed invariably assume a conscious and rationale human actor. In my June 3rd post I challenged us to think about ethical approaches to non conscious leadership.In a recent interview on NPR, Dan Ariely , the author of “The Upside of Irrationality ” ,examines how our biases predispose us to make unwise decisions and explores how irrationality may help human beings achieve great things .
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The Application of Ethics to Nonconscious Leadership
June 3rd, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Decision Making, LeadershipConversations about ethical leadership, whether in academia or in applied business ethics,assume leadership to be conscious and purpose driven. Harry Spence*, of Harvard’s Kennedy School wonders how our discourse on leadership has only been marginally influenced by “the deepening realization of the impact of our nonconscious processes on our behaviour and decision making…In the absence of knowledge of our nonconscious internal dynamics, leaders regularly betray the very organizations they presume to lead.”
I believe it is time to review our current ethical approaches to assisting individuals and organizations. We should be considering what an ethical framework for Nonconscious leadership might look like.
*Read his full article at The Harvard Business Review
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