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Prevention or Cure? Your Choice
Prevention or Cure? Your Choice
By Linda Fisher Thornton
Senior leadership teams and boards have a choice. In their ethics strategies, they can focus on either prevention or cure.
The cure approach is reactive and messy. You do the bare minimum required by law, wait for something bad to happen, and scramble to do damage control. Then you build an ethical support system (perhaps at the insistence of a regulatory body) to…
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Ready to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good)? - Part 2
Ready to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good)? – Part 2
By Linda Fisher Thornton
The first post in this series addressed ACCOUNTABILITY. In this second post we’ll take a look at IMPACT.
Here are 3 ways to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good) that improve the impact of your organization and your leadership.
Ready to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good)? Improve Your Impact
BE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO DOING GOOD: Take a hard look at the positive impact your…
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What Does "Good Leadership" Mean?
What Does “Good Leadership” Mean?
By Linda Fisher Thornton
We need to talk openly with leaders about what “good leadership” means. Without those conversations, they might think it means making the sales numbers and meeting aggressive work deadlines, being knowledgeable when people come to them for help, or staying within budget.
Those things are all important, but “good leadership” requires much more.Just staying competent…
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Want To Thrive in Leadership Future? Tether Yourself To Values
Want To Thrive in Leadership Future? Tether Yourself To Values http://wp.me/sr7Aq-thrive
By Linda Fisher Thornton
It would be “easy [...] for organizations and leaders to become frozen by the magnitude of the changes under way” (McKinsey & Co., Management Intuition For the Next 50 Years). Success in future leadership requires being nimble and adaptive, flexing with constant change, and being ready for anything.
How should we stay grounded as we avoid crises and manage our way…
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Leading For Ethics Future? (Or Ethics Past?)
Leading For Ethics Future? (Or Ethics Past?)
By Linda Fisher Thornton
We are expected to make ethical decisions in a rapidly changing global society, where there is increasing awareness of what “ethical” means. The question of where ethics is headed has been the focus of my research over the last four years.
I have learned that to be considered ethical, we must consider more constituents, honor more dimensions of ethics, and lead ethically…
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"Hearing" All Stakeholders (Even When They're Not in the Room)?
“Hearing” All Stakeholders (Even When They’re Not in the Room)? http://wp.me/sr7Aq-silent
By Linda Fisher Thornton
A quiet group of stakeholders is being considered in leadership conversations. They can’t weigh in on major decisions, but they have a lot at stake in the decisions that get made. They are silent stakeholders, and the decisions we make in our meetings every day affects them directly.
These silent stakeholders include consumers who expect to have their interests and…
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Is Your Leadership Net Positive?
Is Your Leadership Net Positive?
By Linda Fisher Thornton
Generating an intentional positive ethical impact is the successful ethical leadership of the future, and it’s already here. The Forum For the Future describes it as net positiveleadership – making a positive contribution to society and leaving things better than we found them. This commitment represents a higher level of ethical leadership than just preventing harm – we…
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Ethics and Trust are Reciprocal
Ethics and Trust are Reciprocal
By Linda Fisher Thornton
I was asked recently to explain in simple terms how ethics and trust are related. It is a great question, because we define trust and ethics in so many different ways.
Here are some observations about how trust and ethics are related, and what their relationship means for us as organizational leaders.
What is the Relationship Between Ethics and Trust?
Proactive ethics is…
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