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 […]
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Vulnerable: a sure sign of an authentic or weak leader?
In 2007 Vineet Nayar became head of the Indian IT services giant HCL. With over 160,000 employees around the world, he feared they’d see him as out of touch. He worried they’d place him on some kind of pedestal. So the new CEO set up around 25 town hall meetings. each […]
Training leaders to lead—time for a re-think?
How effective is the present investment in growing new leaders? US companies alone spend almost $14 billion annually on various forms of leadership development. In the UK only 7 percent of senior managers polled by a UK business school thought their companies developed global leaders effectively. Trust in leaders in […]
Charisma Work Out: # 12: Take centre stage with personal impact
Ethical leaders are ready to stand up for what they believe—to take centre stage. Others with ethical responsibilities, such as compliance staff, or legal counsel cannot simply refer to rules or regulations and hope to gain enough traction or retain peoples’ interest.. Over half of all senior compliance staff for […]
Means not Ends: Fifth Pillar of Ethical Leadership in Business
This is the fifth pillar of ethical leadership in business Means not just ends The fifth pillar requires a focus on means and not just ends. This is when a leader shows concern with how their organisation achieves its goals, not just the goals themselves. Siemens […]
Seven ways to cherish your company’s reputation
The big UK energy companies are in a reputation crisis. Nor are they alone. On average it takes four years to mend a broken reputation. Some companies never recover. From banks to health care, from security to food, many firms and even industries have lost public trust. Most are trying to pick up […]
Why HR must be willing to show ethical leadership
EXPERTISE How crucial is HR to any company wanting to be seen as a responsible business? Some years back the answer would probably have been “not much.” Today, the situation is entirely different. Now HR can play at least six essential roles that potentially influence the approach of any business […]