avoiding ethical messes – Leading in Context

Ethical Leaders Take Time To Think

Posted by Linda Fisher Thorntonon October 4, 2017October 3, 2017in Complexity, Context, Ethical Leader, Ethical Thinking3 Comments

By Linda Fisher Thornton What sets ethical leaders apart from other leaders? They take the time to THINK before making decisions. And that's not all they do that sets them apart.

Prevention or Cure? Your Choice

Posted by Linda Fisher Thorntonon October 19, 2016February 14, 2022in Ethical Leader, Ethical Organization, Ethical Thinking, Trends1 Comment

By Linda Fisher Thornton Senior leadership teams and boards have a choice. In their ethics strategy, they can focus on prevention or cure. The cure approach is reactive and messy. It involves waiting for something bad to happen, then scrambling to do damage control. Then you have to build an ethical support system (perhaps at the insistence of a regulatory body) to prevent it from happening again. The prevention approach is proactive and positive, and it helps prevent those messy problems. It involves building the ethical support system up front, while things are going well.