ethics – The CEO Magazine

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Seven Key Insights for Ethically Running a Successful Business

Bruce Hartman, Founder, Gideon Partners During my time as a Fortune 500 CFO and as a business advisor, I noticed that successful organizations have a culture that attracts high performing employees. Their culture matches their business goals and the business seems to grow effortlessly. These companies have a culture built around highly ethical behaviors and […]

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Why Doing the Right Thing Can Bring You Success in the Global Marketplace

Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Small Business

Paul A. Dillon, Owner, Dillon Consulting Services LLC This is not a typical business article. I’m not really going to tell you directly that you should be doing the “right thing” in business because it is good for customer relationships, or good for business in the global marketplace, in general—or, even that it will keep

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Leaders: Legal, Ethical, Right?

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Self Governance

Did you ever play a game as a child when you made up the rules as you went along? I’m guessing that those evolving rules often proved to be a source of contention! Leaders at work find the same to be true. When managers decide to disregard their moral compass as the official business handbook,

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5 Powerful Ways to Influence Ethical Action

Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Strategy

What use is there in navigating an ethical course if you’re unable to influence the thoughts and actions of others? It’s one thing for you to know right from wrong, and quite another to convince others to act collectively on your knowledge. To put your ethics to work, you have to be able to influence

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Ethics Feeds Innovation

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Self Governance, Strategy

Ethics brings to mind dusty volumes of impenetrable text, heated arguments that go nowhere, and an overbearing concern with political correctness. But my thirty years as an ethics consultant has taught me something different. Ethics is really about releasing the forces of innovation in an organization. The reason for this is simple. To have ethics

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Does your workforce have a great work ethic? Or, is it just a job?

Management

This past week we picked up a new client that had an immediate need for several videos. On less than a day’s notice two of my employees were on a plane on a Thursday to the client’s location. Others back at the office started working on elements of the project. When the field team returned

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Ethics: Moving From “Problems” to “Opportunities”

Leadership

Linda Fisher Thornton, CEO, Leading in Context LLC It is easy to name the reasons for leading ethically that revolve around preventing problems – complying with laws and regulations, reducing employee complaints and preventing lawsuits, for example. But what about the many opportunities that proactive ethical leadership provides to the leaders and organizations who embrace it? The

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Three Reasons We Value Truth-Telling in CEOs

Self Governance

While most of us try to be truthful, we all lie on occasion. Some lies are minor (“Of course you don’t look fat in that outfit!”) and many are the “white lies” of everyday discourse (“This is the one product you cannot live without.”) In most cases, these lies do not cause harm and do

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Setting the Tone: Ethical Leadership Lessons

Leadership, Management

Gary E. McCullough In theory, many people think ethical issues are simple, cut and dried questions to answer or situations to be resolved. However, the reality is that most ethical dilemmas, particularly those faced in the workplace, are much more subtle. In real life, no one tells you that you’re about to find yourself in

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