Ethics and Principles

Core Values identified: Passion, teamwork, innovation, goals, excellence, ethics, quality, customer, trust, responsibility

Leadership Tip of the Week: Personal Values

Sharing your personal values can boost your credibility as a leader.
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Conflicts of Interest Need a Working Moral Compass to Navigate

Self-interest is in our DNA. Read about a leader’s role in combating self-interest in business.
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What is an Ethical CEO?

Ben Carpenter, a popular author, examines how the ethical behavior of a CEO is judged by shareholders, customers and employees—drawing from his own experience as a CEO.
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Working for Bully Bosses 101

Bosses who bully their employees cause a lot of harm.
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Those Who Trust Their Leaders Follow Their Leaders: Part Two

The second part of our discussion on why it is so important for your team to trust you.
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Supervisors' Value Priorities: What This Means for Leadership

There are many ways organizations select managers.
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Playing Favorites: A Study of Perceived Workplace Favoritism

In the once-popular NBC prime-time sitcom Friends, there is an episode where Rachel decides to take up smoking in an attempt to make inroads with her boss, because her colleague who takes smoke breaks gets more opportunities to talk with her boss, which ultimately leads to her suggestions being accepted over Rachel’s. In this case, Rachel is a victim of workplace favoritism, and she takes a comical approach to ingratiate herself with her boss.

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