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Testimony Before the U.S. Sentencing Commission

We are in troubling times for the business community, and your work is greatly appreciated by it. Trust of American business is at an exceedingly low level, perhaps the lowest since the Great Depression. The actions of a few, spectacular malfeasants have sullied the reputation of business as a whole and exposed the need for greater vigilance, and greater penalties for failures of compliance and ethics.

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Page Society Annual Conference

Dov Seidman shares insights from his keynote speech at the Arthur W. Page Society's 2013 Annual Conference.

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The Era of Behavior Demands Principled Sustainability

Tomorrow, I’ll be addressing chief executives from around the world at the U.N. Global Compact’s triennial Leaders Summit in New York.

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A Call for Resiliency and Dynamism

From the moment that the World Economic Forum announced its 2013 theme – “Resilient Dynamism” – the Twitterverse was electrified. Some pondered the theme’s meaning. “Anybody know what that means?” While others went for straight out mockery – “I’ve decided to name my first child Resilient Dynamism”!

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Leaders Need Wings, Not Wheels: The Profound Difference Between Elevating and Shifting Behavior

I need you to elevate me here. U2, “Elevation” Which would you rather attach to your company: A new set of wheels to help shift gears with incremental improvements, or a set of wings that elevates performance by addressing the threats and opportunities of an interconnected and morally interdependent world? The answer is obvious. Wings…

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Leaders Need Wings

Which would you rather attach to your company: A new set of wheels to help shift gears with incremental improvements, or a set of wings that elevates performance by addressing the threats and opportunities of an interconnected and morally interdependent world?

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A Tale of Two Tuesdays

This Election Tuesday, I celebrate our American tradition of exercising the right to vote. While there will certainly be a lot of talk about voter turnout and exit polls, today’s true significance is that Americans will be acting in good faith, as they always do as citizens. Each of us, no doubt, will cast a vote for the candidate we genuinely believe will do the best job in leading our great country.

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Faith & Leadership

From Formal Authority to Moral Authority

In our interconnected world, a management style that emphasizes honesty and trust should replace traditional carrot-and-stick-style rewards and punishments.

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Everything We Think About Engagement is Wrong

The frequency of lunches, performance reviews, volunteer program outings and team-building exercises does not produce higher levels of employee engagement. Employee engagement is determined by the quality and meaningfulness of these interactions, and the journey managers are enlisting their employees to engage in.

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A Cure for the Common Corporation

“We now know that you do well by doing good,” says Warren Cormier, the President of the Boston Research Group and one of the founders of the RAND Behavioral Finance Forum. “It’s not a theory – it’s a fact.”

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A Company, Adopts Collaborative Management

THREE years ago, in front of my 300 colleagues, I ripped up our organizational chart and proclaimed that none of us would report to a boss anymore. From that point on, we would all “report” to our company mission. Literally. No one would experience life at LRN as someone else’s subordinate. In short, we would strive to become a self-governing company.

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Reinvent Hackathon

Dov Seidman kicks off the Reinvent Business Hackathon. This inspirational keynote conveys the urgency and importance of reinventing business.

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To Inspire Others, It’s HOW you Do What you Do That Matters

Our world has rapidly gone from being connected to interconnected to interdependent. When the world is tied together this intimately, everyone’s values and behavior matter more than ever, because our actions affect more people than ever and in ways they never have.

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Can Social Technology Help “Reinvent Business”?

From Occupy Wall Street to the publication of resignation letters in the New York Times, we cannot ignore the widening “trust gap” between business and society. Increasingly, consumers and citizens are demanding that companies match their actions to their words. Integrity must incorporate the values and principles of stakeholders, including society at large. Our current crises – referring not only to financial ones – are not the result of unforeseen disasters or natural market cycles. They are the result of our behaviour.

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Global Ethics Forum

Ethics Matters

Leadership is going from being command-and-control to connect-and-collaborate; from inspecting for trust to giving it away; and from discussing success towards significance: "If we make a difference for our consumers, our people, and the world, success will find us."

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Business is Personal

What ideas are you building your company on? It’s an important question for all organizations, and some companies are responding with innovative and inspiring answers. Ideas shape our thinking, animate our endeavors, and serve as the foundation upon which we scale our institutions and companies.

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World Business of Ideas

Inspirational Leadership in the Era of Behavior

Dov Seidman spoke to more than 3,500 senior business leaders in Brazil as part of World Business of Ideas Expomanagement, the largest business management event in Brazil that attracts more than 20K people each year for the past 10 years running. It was remarkable to see 3.5K people raise their hands in agreement that we cannot make progress without a foundation of trust.

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The Super Bowl’s Inspirational Leader

Forget about winning the Super Bowl this Sunday. New York Giants Head Coach Tom Coughlin is demonstrating to the world what a winning approach to 21st Century leadership looks like.

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Rethinking Occupy Wall Street

The ultimate impact of the this movement, like all others, hinges upon how all of us involved – and we are all involved – work together to create the freedom to enable all of our employees and citizens to pursue a meaningful career and life.

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Making a Wave

Dov Seidman, author of "How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything" interviews Krazy George the creator of the WAVE.

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Humanity is Job #1

As we continue to frequently lurch from one crisis to another, forging a sustainable path forward requires business leaders to rethink the very nature of how their organizations conduct business. The “New Normal” – defined by hypertransparency, hyperconnectivity, and ever- deepening interdependencies --demands new governance structures, organization models and leadership styles.

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Keen On…Dov Seidman

Andrew Keen Interviews Dov Seidman (Part I)

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‘How,’ Not ‘How Much’

The Dallas Mavericks won the 2011 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship because its leadership team understood that measuring “how” matters more than measuring “how much.” Boards of directors and executive teams should take note. Measuring how individuals and organizations behave concentrates attention and resources on a competitive asset that is so varied and rich in…

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Thomas Friedman in Conversation with Dov Seidman

Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times Tom Friedman is the writer the public looks to for the straight talk and reliable information it needs about the world — especially when events seem too menacing to comprehend and policy discussions are clouded in a smokescreen of politics and posturing.

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Aspen Institute Holiday Reception How to Make the Most Out of 2016

Internationally-renowned author and New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, in conversation with Dov Seidman, author of Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. Thrive in 2016 by learning how the rules of the game have fundamentally changed in terms of how we do business and how we live our lives.

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