Unleash the Positive Power of Ethical Leadership
How Will People Learn to Think Ethically if We Don’t Teach Them?
While we place a heavy emphasis on corporate education and childhood education as a nation, we don’t often see “learning to think ethically” on the classroom agenda or the corporate training schedule. How can people be expected to navigate the complexities of life and work responsibly without learning how to think ethically?
What is Transdiciplinarity?
The Institute for the Future and the University of Phoenix Research Institute list transdisciplinarity as #7 in a list of skills critical for Workforce 2020. They define it as “understanding concepts across multiple disciplines.”
We are learning through research that nutrition is more complex and delicately balanced than we had thought. Changing foods or using only part of a food that we think of as healthy may change the health benefits drastically.
…Systems and connections are the stuff we and organizations are made of. To begin to solve today’s complex problems, systemic and connected thinking is the kind of thinking we need to use.
Thinking About Decision-Making and Choosing Filters : Should You Give Back Unused Budget Money?
If we don’t think about how we want to make leadership decisions, then the crisis of the moment becomes our filter for making decisions. When the economy is unpredictable and profits are lower, the budget is often the crisis that becomes the thinking filter.
It’s dangerous to make important strategic decisions just based on money and just based on a short-term crisis. In the case below, see how different the outcome is when using strategic long-term thinking versus crisis-response short-term thinking.
A collection of published articles written by Linda Fisher Thornton or featuring her insights. 20 Best Ethical Leadership Blogs & Websites in 2025, FeedSpot (Leading in Context is in the Top 20) Ethics at Scale, Navigating AI Risk, Thought Leadership…
Ethical leadership language focuses on the positive, recognizes that organizations are systems, and is inclusive.
When we are faced with a business problem that involves ethics, the easy way out is to blame someone. That appears to remove the pressure of actually solving the problem. But organizational problems are complicated and rarely have one simple cause.
Leading ethically requires staying competent as a professional and as a leader. The speed of change in today’s global economy may cause leaders to fall behind even while they are diligently working to stay on top of trends and industry knowledge. These 5…
Review over 100 trends that will impact your business in 2010 to 2040 and beyond: JWT’s 100 Things to Watch in 2010 is an eyeopener! Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010 are posted on the LeadershipNow Leadingblog. 3 Powerful Social Good Trends at Mashable.com The Future of…
In my consulting and teaching, I have observed the convergence of a number of diverse forces that create pressure on leaders. No, not the level of challenges that include tighter deadlines and leaner staffing. Bigger challenges, like how to think through a problem with a group,…
This blog was started in order to help leaders find cutting edge, research-based, practical tools for improving leadership and leadership development in today’s business world. The focus is on ethical, results-based leadership. “There are a variety of reasons why CLOs are finding…
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