Recently, PayPal killed the accounts of anyone pushing racist views. “You have to have the courage to make those decisions” PayPal CEO Dan Schulman.” The action shows how ethical leaders can take relevant actions to promote social responsibility by their companies and key stakeholders. Echoing these concerns about social responsibility, […]
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Boiled frogs and lightening strikes—how leaders can combat the risk
How do you stop a risk from becoming a crisis? Most business leaders know that various risks can segue into a crisis at any time and they want answers. Two main causes create such a change. First, there’s the familiar boiled frog syndrome. What seems a trivial issue quietly builds from […]
Courage: The 7 areas where ethical leaders in business need to show courage
All business leaders need to show courage in the role. If you’re an employee of pharma giant GSK, a new metric is about to enter your life. CEO Emma Walmsley wants to start judging your performance in the company on the new measure of “courage.” Courage matters for ordinary employees […]
Learning: The unavoidable habit every leader must master
When the co-founder and once CEO of Infosys arrived home from the office guess what he’d do? This high-powered executive sometimes chose to clean the family toilet. Learning from Gandhi, the billionaire took on tasks beneath his station. It was a visceral reminder that all contributions to society have value. […]
How to avoid toxic tone from the top
The failure of BA’s chief executive Alex Cruz to avoid toxic tone from the top will resonate for months, perhaps years. True the airline’s share price has not died a death. Toxic tone from the top can take months, even years to undermine a brand. No amount of high tech […]
It’s the culture, stupid!–making sense of business ethics
Travis Kalanick, Uber’s combative, and arrogant CEO is no model ethical leader. His apparent “shock horror” at finding lack of respect for employees as rampant under his regime does not convince. To Kalanick, business results out rank everything else. Integrity seems in short supply. Whether its treatment of women or […]
No going back–compliance is here to stay
The idea that compliance will take a dive in importance due to a changed US administration is laughable, if it were not affecting some normally quite sane people. It is true Donald Trump seems no fan of compliance and has gone on the record as saying the Foreign Corrupt Practices […]
Tone at the top: a handy guide for non-executive directors [PART 2]
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