Archive for November, 2009
Five Minutes on Mondays
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work, by Alan Lurie, is a collection of 30 weekly messages that the author wrote for the New York business community. The book addresses such topics as authenticity, balance, honesty, happiness, humor, and how to understand difficult times.
Lurie’s suggestions for bringing spirit to [...]
The Project on Public Trust in Business
Thursday, November 26th, 2009The Project on Public Trust in Business (the Project) is a major and ongoing effort—initiated by the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and the Arthur W. Page Society—to engage leading organizations in developing and implementing a long-term strategy to build public trust in business.
The project was officially launched June of 2009 with the [...]
National Business Ethics Survey (NBES): Ethics in the workplace has improved during the down economy, however …
Thursday, November 19th, 2009… NBES data show that, like the Enron era, improvements in ethical conduct tend to be temporary.
From 2000 to 2003, ethics metrics all improved, with the bursting of the dot com bubble, 9/11, and corporate scandals, including Enron and WorldCom, only to fall back until the start of the current recession in December 2007.
The [...]
Robert K. Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership
Friday, November 6th, 2009In my last post, I talked about U.S. Cellular’s servant leadership model. The phrase “Servant Leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, he said:
“The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to [...]
U.S. Cellular’s Journey to Authentic Servant Leadership
Monday, November 2nd, 2009I recently attended the 8th annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference on October 30th, St. Charles, Illinois.
A highlight of the day long conference was the keynote, Creating a Culture of Servant Leadership, presented by Tom Griffin, Vice President of Organizational Learning and Chief Teaching Officer, U.S. Cellular.
Tom Griffin talked about U.S. Cellular’s servant-leader strategy, [...]
10 actions to cultivate a culture of trust
Sunday, November 1st, 2009To cultivate a culture of trust within your organization, follow these 10 actions: (1) Live the values, (2) Tell the truth, (3) Communicate, communicate, communicate, (4) Be in integrity, (5) Be authentic, (6) Be accountable, (7) Be transparent, (8) Respect the individual, (9) Share information, and (10) Do the right thing.”
Here’s the complete article that [...]