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Five breakthrough techniques: unconditional responsibility, unflinching integrity, authentic communication, impeccable commitments, right leadership
David Batstone: Saving the Corporate Soul -- and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own
Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Wealth and Well-Being for You and Your Company Without Selling Out

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Batstone, the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, among other endeavors, outlines eight principles for building corporate integrity and profitability without compromising your own values.
Our friend, Bernard Moon, is a resident and technology business veteran from Silicon Valley. Here he shares some insightful observations of the behavior and culture of Silicon Valley as only an insider to the culture can.

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Salt preserves and light warns: we have a responsibility to resist evil influences and to be alert to moral danger in the workplace. Salt flavors and light guides: we have a responsibility to enhance what is good and to witness to Christ. Above all, salt glistens and light shines: we have a responsibility to be true to our nature, [...]
Richard Higginson
We only need to open a newspaper to find that our relationally designed world is fragmented and frayed. Distrust shadows our business dealings and, in this moment, our entire economy. News stories about the current economic crisis lead us to believe the problem is a lack of confidence in the financial markets.
A profanity laced corporate pep rally that tries to fire up the troops backfires. How corporate leaders speak to their employees directly impacts how they treat customers and compete in the marketplace.
Here's the on-camera dust-up between The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and Mad Money's Jim Cramer. The exchange is certainly not funny but it's not mean-spirited either. Mr. Stewart's comment as the show ended was, "I hope this was as uncomfortable to watch as it was to do." It's was uncomfortable to watch, and absolutely worth it as far as we're concerned.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart doesn't mind pricking the balloons of corporate arrogance from time to time...and neither do we. You might want to clear the room of any lip-reading parrots or children before you hit play...
What can leaders do to defuse the current anger and lessen its likelihood in the future? Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp say: "The answer is to treat people fairly and, when that fails, rebuild the trust." If that sounds too simple, they say, "It is simple, and it should be basic (like decency). This is why, when the cynics and critics say that these are just warmed-over recommendations from the past, we reply “Go back to basics; we already know what works.” In fact, what got us in this mess were leaders ignoring those tried-and-true basics.

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Success is not so much a matter of talent or intelligence, but of character. Dr. Cloud describes the six qualities of character that form integrity. More than just honesty, these qualities are the key to success.
In the current economic crisis, people who did nothing wrong are being punished for the behavior of people who did nothing right — unless we count the relentless accumulation of as much as possible as fast as possible by every means possible. Clearly, mistakes were made... Now there’s nothing to do but the hard work of rebuilding trust.
When a Coke employee offered to sell trade secrets to Pepsi, Pepsi blew the whistle.
Jim Hancock joins former Worthwhile Magazine columnist Curt Rosengren's beef with Big Advertising. We see what you're doing with all that You're-Not-Good-Enough marketing... Now cut it out!
According to the second annual TIAA-Cref Trust in America Survey, 92 percent of American investors say: "I would invest with a firm that has strong ethics even if it meant not getting as high a return on my investment."
It's not so much what a young manager experiences in his or her first job as the take-away lessons in leadership. Geoff Finch recalls on-the-job learning about following, leading and becoming a leader.

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Microsoft routinely delivers software once a month, on Patch Tuesday. When someone hacked a Microsoft digital rights management application, the company issued a patch in three days. Why the difference? Customers think they know...
Is business competition unbiblical? An example from the ultra-competitive National Basketball Association may shed some surprising ideas that praising your competitors may be good for you and your business.
People are either glad our companies are in town (county, state, region, nation, planet) or they're not. What are you doing to ensure that your neighbors will stand up for you because they're glad you're there?
Jim Hancock looks back: "The marketplace is certainly more fickle—and getting killed in the line of business even more a possibility—than when Peter Kim spoke with Fast Company in the magazine's very first issue..,"
The Associated Press reports that "Integrity" was 2005s most searched-for word in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.
Harvard Management Update offers Five Guidelines for Using Statistics, which InsideWork dutifully passes along with certain embellishments...
Chip Toth of LeadersInspire shares a vivid lesson that he and his clients learned about authentically living out values at the curb of O'Hare Airport.
Bradley J. Moore respects business leaders who bring their faith to their workplace. But advertising it with a little fish on a keychain? Or making it part of the business name? What exactly does that buy them?
David Wooldridge writes about British golfer, Brian Davis, who self-reported an infraction and lost over $400,000 and the chance to win his first tournament. Would leaders from Goldman Sachs have reported such an infraction on the course?






















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