Tag: ethical leadership
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Designing for Trust: A Blueprint for the Organizations Worth Building
Designing for Trust: A Blueprint for the Organizations Worth Building Author’s Note If trust were visible, most org charts would look like seismic reports—fissures everywhere. That’s what the last five articles have made plain. We started by tracking where teams falter—authority hoarded instead of shared, incentives that reward performance theater over progress, systems that bury…
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All Good Management Is Logistics
You’ve heard the stories, memorized the quotes. We all have. The battle‑scarred Navy SEAL who now delivers keynotes in a crisp polo shirt. The consultant quoting The Art of War before a slide titled “Market Domination.” The executive coach who hands out The Book of Five Rings like it’s a pocket manual for quarterly planning. Somewhere in the background,…
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On Leadership: Earning Respect, Exercising Authority
Author’s Note There’s a moment in the film Annapolis that has stayed with me, long after the rest of the story faded. During a training exercise, a Marine instructor brings out a body bag, lays it before the cadets, and orders one of them inside. As the young woman struggles to stay calm, the instructor…
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