10 Favorite Quotes From the Leading in Context Blog

By Linda Fisher Thornton

I noticed that Jesse Lyn Stoner’s Blog Post Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of My Blog included her favorite quotes from her blog. Her post appeared in the Mini-Carnival of HR at CostofWork.com along with my 150th Blog Post Learning Out Loud .

This week, I thought I’d share 10 of my favorite quotes from the Leading in Context Blog. Clicking on each quote takes you to the full post that includes the quote.

• “Ethical” isn’t just a kind of decision-making. It is the way we need to think about all of our choices, today and every day.

• “Dealing with work complexity has become a major leadership development issue. And it is a challenge that has ethical implications.”

• “How we handle the grey areas in how people treat each other paints a border that becomes the outline of our company’s ethics.”

• “When we acknowledge complexity, we help leaders resolve the natural tension between our leadership and performance expectations and our ethical expectations.”

• Civility is a “load-bearing beam” in the foundation of ethical leadership. Ethical companies accept nothing less.

• “In this age of ‘infotainment’ and information overload, we have to know ourselves, know our responsibility to others, and choose to act beyond self-interest and short-term gain.”

• “If I think that people will do a good job if I support them, and that a little chaos is just part of the creative process, then I will likely tolerate higher levels of chaos and give employees room to use their own creativity and make mistakes.”

• “When we are not open to learning, we can easily misinterpret another perspective that does not match our own as a threat.”

• “The most important thing is to ask employees about which ethical issues they would like to be talking about.”

• “Ethical leadership and high-trust cultures bring out the best performance people have to offer, and bringing out people’s best performance will help our businesses compete effectively in today’s global marketplace.”

Visit the Leading in Context® Blog Index for more articles about how to lead ethically in a complex world.

For more, see Linda’s book 7 Lenses and the 21 Question Assessment: How Current is My Message About Ethics?

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