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February 27, 2012
New Article: The Right Choice

A person is the result of all his choices, both the right and the wrong ones. With a right choice, a person develops, matures, actualizes, and grows. A wrong choice is detrimental to growth. A person can make right and wrong choices, and in the course of a lifetime, knowingly and unknowingly, he makes both.

By Darryl S. Doane; Rose D. Sloat; and David S. Doane, Ph.D.

A critical component of my focus may be the right choice. We once heard a story of a farmer who had an old mule. One day, the farmer is out working and hears a distressful wailing that sounds as if something terrible has happened.

February 27, 2012
The Right Choice

A person is the result of all his choices, both the right and the wrong ones. With a right choice, a person develops, matures, actualizes, and grows. A wrong choice is detrimental to growth. A person can make right and wrong choices, and in the course of a lifetime, knowingly and unknowingly, he makes both.

By Darryl S. Doane; Rose D. Sloat; and David S. Doane, Ph.D.

A critical component of my focus may be the right choice. We once heard a story of a farmer who had an old mule. One day, the farmer is out working and hears a distressful wailing that sounds as if something terrible has happened.

December 15, 2011
Ethical Lessons from the Penn State Case

Penn State’s story of bad decisions and bad behavior sparked a national debate about personal moral conduct and the school’s perceived institutional failure to do the right thing. Since none of us are immune from acting unethically, what can we do to ensure our workplaces are not caught in our own failures of judgment, of action, and of inaction?

By Darnell Lattal, Ph.D., CEO and President, Aubrey Daniels International (ADI)

Penn State’s story of bad decisions and bad behavior sparked a national debate about personal moral conduct and the school’s perceived institutional failure to do the right thing. There were tremendous failures of judgment, of action, and of inaction. Since none of us are immune from acting unethically, what can we do to ensure our workplaces are not caught in our own failures of judgment, of action, and of inaction?

November 17, 2011
Insightful Ethics Training Can Be a Game Changer

With a tone at the top that reinforces the importance of a strong ethical culture, and employees who have participated in relevant and engaging ethics training, companies can take a significant step toward greater profitability and long-term success.

By Pat Quinn, Managing Director, and Pamela Verick, Director, Protiviti Inc.

During prosperous economic times, ethical business principles may be overlooked when the next moneymaking deal seems right around the corner. When cash is flowing, few extol the virtues of a strong corporate culture and how it contributes to long-term business success. Yet, many learn in hindsight the value of these principles.

November 11, 2011
Asia’s Contribution to EI: The Power of Paradox

Insights from The Way of Tao can be applied with great profit to personal development in general, and to the enhancement of emotional intelligence in particular, says Sebastien Henry, author of “EQ and Leadership in Asia: Using Emotional Intelligence to Lead and Inspire Your People.” He says they make it unnecessary to choose between two traits that seem incompatible.

By Sebastien Henry

“Asian thinking doesn’t ignore paradoxes: It turns them into harmony, as both parts of the paradox can be reconciled. This ability to reconcile paradoxes proves very useful when it comes to emotional intelligence, as it means that we don’t have to compromise.”

One of my previous bosses, the international director based at the headquarters of my firm in Europe, would often say: “Chinese people are really unnecessarily complicated.”

November 2, 2011
Developing Brilliant Leaders

Can spatially gifted, ultra-smart executives be developed? Yes, thanks to breakthroughs in neural science, say Morris Graham and Kevin Baize, authors of “Executive Thinking: From Brightness to Brilliance.” They document a neural technology of visual informational processing (VIP) training needed to increase capacity—to turbo-charge the right hemisphere of the brain for greater cross-connectivity and spatial assimilation to better accommodate new data.

By Morris Graham and Kevin Baize

August 1, 2011
Virtual Role-Playing Takes Center Stage

By using virtual world 3-D technology, such as VirtualU, VenueGen, and Second Life, training professionals not only can improve on the Webinar experience, they can improve on the experience of participants in role plays conducted live in the classroom. Here are four reasons virtual role plays may be more effective than their classroom counterparts.

By Mark Jankowski, Co-Founder, Shapiro Negotiations Institute

As training professionals are forced to move education from “front of the classroom” training to online training, they have discovered many challenges. How do you keep participant attention in Webinars? How do you create “live” role-play scenarios when participants are taking asynchronous training? How do you observe and coach participants when they are a thousand miles away from you?

July 27, 2011
Knowing Who You Are and What You Believe

If we are to become the leaders we have the potential to be, it is essential that we understand who we are and what we believe, says Doug Moran, author of  “If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st Century Leaders.” While there is a great deal of self-awareness associated with all of the “If” Sixteen Leadership Attributes, these first four in particular—character, authenticity, integrity, and self-efficacy—provide a strong foundation for self-awareness.

By Doug Moran

Why Self-Awareness Matters

If we are to become the leaders we have the potential to be, it is essential that we understand who we are and what we believe. While there is a great deal of self-awareness associated with all of the “If” Sixteen Leadership Attributes, these first four in particular—character, authenticity, integrity, and self-efficacy—provide a strong foundation for self-awareness.

June 6, 2011
Soapbox: Can Leadership Ethics Be Learned?

Why do leaders stray from the ethical path? Contamination by the proverbial bad apple? Greed? A character flaw? Each of these is a common explanation, but they miss the complexity of the world and how it influences a leader’s behavior. Leaders behave not only because of their character and personal compass but because of the world around them.

By Ross Tartell

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Decent People, Decent Company

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