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How We’ve Lost Our Moorings as a Society

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How to Out-behave the Competition with Dov Seidman

It once wasn’t uncommon to hear a boss tell their employees “just get it done. I don’t care how.” However, in the last decade, organizations have evolved. Now, we often hear leaders priding themselves on encouraging their employees to speak up. But, what if leaders created environments and cultures in which it didn’t take an act of courage for employees to speak their minds? In this episode, we explore how leaders can create a framework and playbook for moral leadership at their organizations that allows employees to out-behave and consequently out-perform the competition.

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America 2022: Where Everyone Has Rights and No One Has Responsibilities

When our trust in each other erodes, fewer people think they have responsibilities to the other and we lose societal immunity.

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The Urgent Imperative of Moral Leadership

Powerful technological, political, social, and economic forces are reshaping the world faster than we are able to reliably adapt. More than ever, we rise or fall together.

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The Rise in Popularism

Why does it feel like so few leaders are capable of inspiring their people to meet the challenges of our day? There are many explanations for this global leadership deficit, but I’d focus on two: one generational, one technological.

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Bloomberg CEO Summit

In Converation with Dov Seidman

Dov Seidman sits down with Scaling Up Founder and CEO, Entrepreneurs’ Organization Founder and author Verne Harnish speaks at the Bloomberg Breakaway CEO Summit in New York.

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Dov Seidman and Admiral James Stavridis at CNBC Evolve with Suzy Welch

Former admiral James Stavridis motivated and inspired thousands of sailors amid shifting tides; Dov Seidmen, the ‘CEO whisperer’ teaches the ‘how’ of innovation. They both are joined by Suzy Welch at CNBC Evolve talking about what makes great leaders, and what new skills are needed in today’s dynamic business environment.

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Business Leaders Set the A.I. Agenda

Before the New Work Summit last week, The New York Times asked leaders who were participating in the conference to answer the most pressing questions.

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Activist employees: A price worth paying

When employees go public with objections to the perceived moral shortcomings of their companies, most executives react with a sigh of relief — glad it wasn’t their company. In the past year, employees at organizations ranging from Google and Amazon to Deloitte and McKinsey have protested the handling of sexual harassment allegations and petitioned management to stop working with customers that they consider unethical, immoral, or damaging to society.

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Crain's Business

How does sexual harassment continue in companies for so long?

Q&A with Dov Seidman of LRN, a compliance and ethics education and advisory service in Midtown.

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The 5 Skills You and Your Kids Need to Be Robot Proof

The rise of AI will have a huge impact on your career. Will creativity keep you robot-proof? The answer may surprise you

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Five Books for a President Who Doesn’t Read

Having spent decades in the military serving for a series of terrific leaders, I would offer the simple thought that reading books can make people better leaders.Having spent decades in the military serving for a series of terrific leaders, I would offer the simple thought that reading books can make people better leaders.

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The Rise of the Human Economy

Technology isn’t just changing our world. It’s reshaping it faster than individuals and institutions are...

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Davos – The Great American Divide

A new president will be inaugurated this week. In the aftermath of a divisive election season, how can the United States be reunited?

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The Business of Humanity

Billions of people in the world are shut out. They have no membership in the financial institutions of life that allow those in richer nations to save, invest, borrow, build, and trade freely. Tens of millions of people, a huge share of them children, have been left stateless by war and poverty; many more live lives of subsistence in remote or rural regions of the world.

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What CEOs Must Learn From Trump’s Victory

I recently shared a meal with Dov Seidman, the CEO of LRN, which advises companies on how to build ethical cultures. He reminded me that the philosopher David Hume said that “the moral imagination diminishes with distance.”

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Supreme Allied Commander Stavridis: Donald Trump Is So Wrong About NATO

The world has seen many failed alliances, from the League of Nations to the Warsaw Pact. We should all hope that NATO does not become one of them.

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Why Hillary Clinton Should Choose a Republican Vice President

A few weeks ago Hillary Clinton said that we should “Make America Whole.” She may have said it as an aside, just as a contrast to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” but it actually encapsulates an ethos of leadership both deeply rooted in the American political tradition and central to the future of both our country and the corporate world.

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Davos Man Meets the Masses

One of the enduring ironies of the World Economic Forum in Davos is that the world’s élites congregate in this Alpine village each year to contemplate a backlash against the world’s élites.

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Global Compact +15

Marking the UN Global Compact’s 15th anniversary, Global Compact +15 brought business and civil society to the United Nations to show how the private sector is taking action and partnering to advance societal priorities, with an emphasis on the United Nations global agenda for sustainable development (i.e. the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs). The General Assembly Session was a unique gathering of all participants and special guests in the UN General Assembly Hall. Together participants aimed to demonstrate to Governments the private sector’s critical role in solving our world’s greatest challenges and show how the Global Compact’s work is at the heart of the United Nations agenda.

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#GivingTuesday: Why Scaling Values Over Value Today Can Change The World Tomorrow

Today marks the fourth year of an inspiring new celebration, one that reacts to this trend by putting value over price and values over value and one that, I believe, deserves to become an enduring part of our global culture: #GivingTuesday.

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What George Washington Can Teach Washington?

With the 2016 Election season underway, the swirl of candidates and campaigns is drawing us into a discussion. Behind the talking points and slogans, what’s on display is not just leaders or leadership styles, but underlying worldviews.

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Surviving and Thriving in the Human Economy

Fifteen years ago, when 40 companies formed the Global Compact at the United Nations, they laid out the principles for a more inclusive and sustainable world. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for a “global compact of shared values and principles, which will give a human face to the global market.”

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The HOW of Repairing our World with Dov Seidman and Tom Friedman

Join us for the first in a series of conversations on HOW individuals, nations and business must urgently change how they behave, lead and operate in a world that is more interconnected and interdependent. This first evening will examine the challenges in the global arena at this pivotal time and the fundamental shifts needed to solve our most pressing problems.

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From Dropping Prices On Cyber Monday To Elevating Values On #GivingTuesday

Two years ago, I wrote about #GivingTuesday when it first launched, calling it the “kind of wave that will launch and sustain us on a new journey.” Created as a response to “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday,” #GivingTuesday was spearheaded by the 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and other admirable organizations. Back then, the movement consisted of around 1,400 American charitable groups; this year, #GivingTuesday has spread to all 50 states and dozens of countries. From participating in coat and blood drives, to volunteering, to making donations, people of all ages, religions and opinions are uniting in the spirit of giving. It is capturing people’s imagination in ways no one has anticipated because it is tapping into a new source of power: our values.

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Measuring the Apology of the Atlanta Hawks

This is the fourth apology in our Apology Metrics series in which we present apologies for readers to assess. Our goal is not to evaluate apologies as theatrical performances but to evaluate the apologizer’s behavior over time to see whether there has been genuine change. The survey for this apology will be predictive rather than retrospective. We will follow up with a retrospective evaluation after at least a year.

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Ich bin ein Cavalier: What We Can Learn From LeBron, German Soccer And The Spurs

I want to congratulate LeBron James, Germany and the San Antonio Spurs on their recent wins -- before they fade from our minds -- and for demonstrating to the world, and each other, how inspirational leadership works and what it takes to build a winning organization – any organization. This lesson goes far beyond sports; it is, in fact, directly analogous to the journey on which all leaders need to take their organizations to truly compete in today’s hyperconnected world as it reshapes our collective operating environment.

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Measuring the Apology of Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia

This is the third apology in our Apology Metrics series in which we present apologies for readers to assess. Our goal is not to evaluate apologies as theatrical performances but to evaluate the apologizer’s behavior over time to see whether there has been genuine change. This time, we will look at the apology of Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister of Australia, to Australia’s indigenous community in 2008. With the benefit of six years of hindsight, we are in a much better position to judge the apology’s authenticity.

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Measuring the Apology of Network Rail in Britain

This is the second apology in our Apology Metrics series in which we present apologies for readers to assess. Our goal is not to evaluate apologies as theatrical performances but to evaluate the apologizer’s behavior over time to see whether there has been genuine change.

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The Transformative Power of Transparency

Doctors don’t traditionally apologize for medical errors; in fact, they usually don’t even disclose them. That is why I have long been interested in how the University of Michigan Health Systems has bucked tradition with its Michigan Model, a collaborative and transparent approach to patient safety and medical mistakes.

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Readers Get to Weigh In on Apologies

When Andrew Ross Sorkin and I came together to start “Apology Watch,” our goal was to elevate the conversation about authentic apologies. In that vein, we are introducing an “Apology Metric” survey to give readers an opportunity to share their insight.

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Army’s Basic Training Is No Longer Basic: Lessons for Business

“I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be ‘Sir.’ Do you maggots understand that?” With that line from Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket actor R. Lee Ermey introduced his new recruits – and a whole generation of Americans – to the fundamentals of basic training, where drill sergeants demand respect, order, and, most importantly, obedience. Ermey, who wrote much of his own dialogue, acted out the reality he experienced when he was a Parris Island drill sergeant.

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It’s Time to Put Freedom Back in Free Enterprise

The freedom train has left the station, my friends. If you’re a business leader, you better track that train down, leap aboard and learn how to conduct the right type of freedom throughout your business ecosystem. If you don’t, your company and your career may soon hurtle off the rails.

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From Conspicuous Consumption To Conspicuous Compassion

Yet while many are engaged in conspicuous consumption, today we will all have the opportunity to engage in something else: conspicuous compassion.

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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 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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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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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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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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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.