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Launched! Success Secrets of Trusted Change Advisors @ ACMP Global, April, Las Vegas 2012

What does it mean to be a trusted change advisor in today's turbulent times?

Check out our conference program on the new, global Association of Change Management Practioners global conference speakers page.

NOTE:  The conference early bird registration deadline is February 1st, 2012.

More information, including the presenter biographies are here.

Our unique panel program description also featuring 30+ minutes of Open Space conversation is now available along with all the major conference speakers at this 2012 global CHANGE conference.

That's me in the middle, in red.  

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I'm delighted that my distinguished colleagues and I have an opportunity to present, handle Q & A for the large group expected AND create a robust learning space featuring 30+ minutes of Open Space conversation.

Along with the theme:  What does it mean to be a trusted change advisor?

Other questions listed include:

  • How to balance different approaches, including evidence-based management and visionary
  • How to earn trust quickly and help time-pressured leaders navigate the discomfort of change
  • How to deal with being lonely in the change manager role while your leaders are lonely at the top

The second half Open Space is an activity that is about choosing where you want to be and what you want to discuss of interest to you around the theme of becoming a trusted change advisor in today's world.

Feel free to browse the conference offerings here.

We hope to see you there as well as on-line.  Twitter tweet tag:  #ACMP2012

~  Deborah

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Will it be the new "Craig's List" of $$ Transactions for 2012? Dwolla [Video]

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The cost of the transaction was .25.  That's 25 CENTS.  Really.  

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I've made my first transaction to pay for some website work via Dwolla. For my web-master friend, between our two bank accounts, the cost of the transaction was .25.  That's 25 CENTS.  Really.  That was all.  No %-age fee, no credit cards.

It took a week or so to set up, but now the bank set-up is fully verified, similar to how PayPal does it.  Now I'm ready to request or send funds with anyone with a Dwolla connection through their bank.

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On the merchant end of things, if this catches on, it could be huge. If Google somehow gets connected to Dwolla at some point, it WILL be huge.  It might also help Google with it's new YouTube merchandising business.  It certainly fits with the "don't be evil" ethic suggested by the giant.

A typical reason it might not work would be the usual: leadership failure. With cautionary tales like RIMM (the Blackberry manufacturer) and Rubbermaid, leadership #fails can stall even the most innovative companies.

Here's hoping that Dwolla takes off to be a blazing 2012 success, if for nothing else than how, like the #OWS / 99% protests, it helps most of us, not just a select few who profit, perhaps a bit too much, from the many. 

Where I'm at these days, including my curation newsletters:

Curating:

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On the Spot Peer Learning at #MISHRM 2011, 101 Ideas!

John U. Bacon, author, writer, keynoter, and Jack's pub hanger-outer said they set a record at the Michigan HR statewide conference in Traverse City.

Johanna Wilberding, group reporter, at the MISHRM conference in Michigan describes how her table DID it.

How did they set the record?

Originally sent from my Reveln iPhone, updated with YouTube.

The full presentation is on Slideshare either here or on the new Reveln peer learning and social learning page.

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Peer Learning, Loose - Tight & Competitive Learning: Deb & Ron Presenting at MI-SHRM, Traverse City | Reveln

Social Media is providing platforms to accelerate peer learning as a competitive advantage.  

Here are two sample slides from our presentation tomorrow for the statewide MI-SHRM (Human Resources) conference, with more to be added as this blog post is updated after the presentation.

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I'm heading up to Traverse City in just a few minutes.  Tomorrow Ron Koller and I will be presenting on Loose - Tight:  Peer Learning in an Era of Social Media Expansion and Information Overload. 

Peer learning is a key aspect of many current e-learning business systems based in gaming and social media.  The popular Geek Squad of Best Buy was started in a gaming community and has been central to its success.  

Peer learning has also been around a long time, before this current age of systems thinking, complexity, and social media channels and hyper-communication.

A quote that illustrates it's classic nature:

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ~ James Madison

and even:

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~ Bill Gates

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. ~ Jack Welch  


 

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Details:   Ron Koller, Deb Nystrom   Thursday, October 6, 20111:45 - 3:00 p.m.  

MI-SHRM, for registered conferenced goers (registration is closed, the event is full!)

We'll be covering the elements of 

 

  • Peer Learning 
  • Social Media
  • Talent Development / Talent Management

 

and demonstrating it using an open-space format where we'll learn from each other, MI-SHRM peers in action.

If you are new to Open Space, a great peer learning opportunity which instantly removes status and title barriers when launched, here's a few elements of this peer learning process to give you a taste of its usefulness:

Sample Open Space Guidelines

Start the topic you wish to work on. The person who posted the topic will be there and will begin the dialogue. You should use these guidelines in deciding how to behave.

  • Hummingbirds:  Feel free to flit from topic to topic.
  • Bumblebees:  Take ideas from one topic to another and cross pollinate.
  • The rule of two feet:  When the discussion is no longer of interest, use your two feet to move on.

Open Space principles 

  1. Whoever comes are the right people.
  2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
  3. Whenever it starts is the right time.  
  4. When it’s over, it is over.

 

 

What is your experience of the benefits, and any distractors in  peer learning?

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TEDxDetroit 2011 rocks Creative, Social Good + Biz, Sci & Tech | Video

Here are a few videos & photos of what makes Detroit, an entrepreneurial mecca, so great!  Capture is via a Lumix HD camera.  Below, you'll also see an iPhone4 video clip and a Flickr photo set.

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Charlie Wolburg (@CharlieCurve) kicks off the day.

 

Below is a sample of TEDx awesome via iPhone4. This at the end of session 4 in the afternoon. I'm still amazed by what you can capture on on iPhone.


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And by accident, unplanned, and BEFORE 9 a.m. at TEDx, I found myself taking a video testimonial about reserving social media names in Facebook, twitter and the like for @LookUpDetroit.  More about that will be shared on Reveln Social Business soon!

Sample TEDxDetroit tweets:

@TEDxDetroit Go Lions. Go Detroit. So many of the Michiganders are pulling for the D. You prove again, "You can't measure heart!"

 

RT @robjray: Another @TEDxDetroit lesson: embrace your passion. Don't just exist. Do something. Make a difference. Believe it is possible.

 

RT @tagibson: Upon reflecting on @TEDxDetroit , I find myself moved by things that are hitting me now, more than they did at the moment. 

 

RT @joshlinkner: Some thoughts from my talk yesterday @TEDxDetroit - http://t.co/T5Ff3owI 

 

Big thanks to everyone who attended #TEDxDetroit this year. We're bringing #Detroit back.

 

RT @ElenaWollborg: I was a part of something BIG Wednesday. My experience at #TEDxDetroit: http://t.co/RhXpmOuv   (DN:  Read Elana's post.  She has a a comprehensive view of TEDxDetroit. She's friendly with that one guy, Charilie...ya.)

 

RT @techtowndetroit: Moving talk by @landlessness at #tedxdetroit. Appreciate the show of emotion.   (DN:  Look for the photos in the Flickr set above that relates.)

 

We now have @rowdydad on stage #TEDxDetroit

 

RT @sylviahubbard1: Taking a moment for David Blair, poet, who passed away earlier this year @tedxdetroit #tedx #detroit #tedxdetroit 

 

Q & A with 9 year old Sebastian from Sebastian's Gourmet Lemonade #TEDxDetroit

 

Now performing @ChrisBathgate #TEDxDetroit Wed Sep 28 16:19:16 +0000 2011

 

"it is now the role of k-12 education that will break the chains of poverty"- @BobbycSmith #TEDxDetroit Wed 

 

"Money is not the biggest thing in the world, the biggest thing is giving back" - speaker @TaraMichener #TEDx #Detroit Wed Sep 28 14:09:57 +0000 2011

 



 

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Is Detroit the new Phoenix from the Ashes? TEDxDetroit 2011 | PBS & Reveln

Might Detroit and its new batch of entrepreneurs, young professionals and dedicated funders and supporters be a phoenix, perhaps even a symbol of how to get out ahead of our national, fractious woes?
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Source:  Future Midwest 2011, Dan Gilbert's presenation, Photo - Deb

If so, I look forward to hearing the 2011 buzz about TEDxDetroit in a year facing a frustrating, combative spirit in the nation, politically.  

Detroit seems to hold new hope in a way we seem to be unable to do nationally.

The commentary on the PBS piece below about Detroit having some parallels to Brooklyn holds some current Detroit gems.

One commentator suggests unparalleled fresh veggies & fruit as an example of past and new Detroit positives:
  • Eastern Market--an institution unparalleled in MOST American cities of similar size.

Another commentor, Larry Eiler says:

  • Dan Gilbert and others will help make Detroit move the right way again.
I heard Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, speak at Future Midwest 2011 at Eastern Market in Detroit this past May, 2011.  The slide above is from his presentation.

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Dan Gilbert ...is one of the city’s biggest boosters.  He calls his revitalization effort “Detroit 2.0” [is] putting his money...more than $100 million ...where his mouth is.
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There's amazing hope and spirit in Detroit's funders and supporters.  I look forward to catching an update on that at TEDxDetroit 2011 this Wednesday.

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...One woman said that there’s a cool party just about every evening. ... the last 10 years, downtown Detroit experienced a 59 percent increase in the number of college-educated residents under the age of 35. ~ Is Detroit the new Brooklyn? | PBS
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Excerpted from Is Detroit the new Brooklyn? | Need to Know | PBS
Last weekend, the New York Times featured a story in its Style section about the onslaught of hip, young urban pioneers streaming into downtown Detroit.

These “creatives,” as they are being called, are taking advantage of low rents and the opportunity to recycle this abandoned, blank slate of an urban landscape into something new and exciting.

There are restaurateurs and entrepreneurs of all stripes living alongside environmentalists and urban farmers. 

...One woman said that there’s a cool party just about every evening. 

The article pointed out that even though recent census figures show that Detroit’s overall population shrank by 25 percent in the last 10 years, downtown Detroit experienced a 59 percent increase in the number of college-educated residents under the age of 35.

...behind the scene, millions of public, private and foundation dollars are greasing the wheels. Last April, Blueprint America profiled an effort called Live Midtown, an incentive program created to lure some of the 30,000 employees of midtown’s major anchor institutions (Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center and Henry Ford Health System) to move from the suburbs back into the city. 

...And more incentives are on the way.

Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, for instance, is one of the city’s biggest boosters.  He calls his revitalization effort “Detroit 2.0” and seems to be putting his money (more than $100 million by some estimates) where his mouth is.

Gilbert recently moved Quicken Loans’ headquarters (and the 2,000 employees who worked there) out of a nearby suburb into downtown Detroit.  And he’s in the process of buying four historic buildings which he plans to fill with tech and web-based companies, some of which will no doubt come from Bizdom U, an “entrepreneurial boot camp” Gilbert started several years ago.

Biz U offers graduates financing opportunities of up to $100,000 if they base their start-up in Detroit.

see the full article via pbs.org

 

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Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? iPhone5, Androids, Parole? or Worse | NYTimes & Reveln

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Decision Fatigue.  You know it before I even cite it.  

A paper available for download from Stanford University, with multiple funding sources features the problems of the overload of decision & choice:

 

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Has the proliferation of choice uniformly made life easier and better?  The answer is a resounding no.

~ Decision Fatigue Exhausts Self-Regulatory Resources

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The New York Times has articulated the issue well in listing out the differences on EXACTLY the same judicial cases heard at different times of the day.  

Troy Davis has passed from our midst today. I have to wonder...

An overload of options awaits us every time we enter a big box store or approach the world of Social Media.  

It is the reason that I choose to:

  • Enjoy Facebook and Google+ competitions 
    • including how they are tuning their platforms to give me news and connections tailored to what I want to see, 
    • especially as they compete to get me, and my friends, family and acquaintances tuning in.  
    • I think it is cool, not creepy.  
    • Bring it!

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 “The best decision makers, are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.” Roy Baumeister, a social psychologist, 

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  • Keep my LinkedIn profile up to date.
    • Add in business contacts to what is listed above for Facebook & Google+ 
  • Follow my intuition now more clearly than ever.  
    • After a half a century of living, my unconscious mind seems to understand complexity more than I'll ever grasp.  The leads are 80% good ones, to date.
  • Shop at Trader Joes, a "right-sized" organically oriented grocery chain. 
    • I can buy organic, not be overwhelmed with too many choices, and enjoy a folksy ambience that fits what I want.  
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  • be a happy Apple device/computers owner.  
    • Holding at iPhone 4.
    • There's an accessible number of choices, even including the pending iPhone5 via my Social Media blog post on the pending release.  
    • That does not include 10, 5, or even 3 versions of the iPhone5, unless you want to count the color of the case.

  • PC owners can read about Dell below, and then agree about the plethhora of PC choices.
    • Elegant simplicity, including the size of my local Apple store.  PC owners, good luck with that.
  • Craig's List anyone?  When's the last time they changed their platform? Still going strong!

Here's an excerpt of the New York Times article with the reference to the Stanford University studies:

Case 1 (heard at 8:50 a.m.): An Arab Israeli serving a 30-month sentence for fraud.

Case 2 (heard at 3:10 p.m.): A Jewish Israeli serving a 16-month sentence for assault.

Case 3 (heard at 4:25 p.m.): An Arab Israeli serving a 30-month sentence for fraud.

There was a pattern to the parole board’s decisions, but it wasn’t related to the men’s ethnic backgrounds, crimes or sentences. It was all about timing, as researchers discovered by analyzing more than 1,100 decisions over the course of a year.

...The odds favored the prisoner who appeared at 8:50 a.m. — and he did in fact receive parole.

 ...There was nothing malicious or even unusual about the judges’ behavior, which was reported earlier this year by Jonathan Levav of Stanford and Shai Danziger of Ben-Gurion University.

...The judges’ erratic judgment was due to the occupational hazard of being, as George W. Bush once put it, “the decider.”

...The mental work of ruling on case after case, whatever the individual merits, wore them down. 

 ...Decision fatigue is the newest discovery involving a phenomenon called ego depletion, a term coined by the social psychologist Roy F. Baumeister

...experiments demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for exerting self-control. When people fended off the temptation to scarf down M&M’s or freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, they were then less able to resist other temptations. 

 ...which phase of the decision-making process was most fatiguing?

using the self-service Web site of Dell Computers. One group in the experiment carefully studied the advantages and disadvantages of various features available for a computer — the type of screen, the size of the hard drive, etc. — without actually making a final decision on which ones to choose.

A second group was given a list of predetermined specifications and told to configure a computer by going through the laborious, step-by-step process of locating the specified features among the arrays of options and then clicking on the right ones.

The third group had to figure out for themselves which features they wanted on their computers and go through the process of choosing them

When self-control was measured, [the THIRD group] were the one who were most depleted, by far.

“Even the wisest people won’t make good choices when they’re not rested and their glucose is low,” Roy Baumeister, a social psychologist, points out.

That’s why the truly wise don’t restructure the company at 4 p.m. They don’t make major commitments during the cocktail hour. And if a decision must be made late in the day, they know not to do it on an empty stomach.

“The best decision makers,” Baumeister says, “are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.”

 

More on this topic:

 

Decision Fatigue: Why I'm iPhone4 & Holding | The Atlantic & Reveln

People, Institutions are Biased against Creative Ideas, Studies Find | Physorg.com & Reveln

Strategic Agility Update 2011 | Reveln & Forbes

 

 

 

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People, Institutions are Biased against Creative Ideas, Studies Find | Physorg.com & Reveln

If you are a creative who has found a way to live, counter-culture, in corporate society, in a corporate job, or in any bureacracy that is public or private, this might validate some of your long-suffering sensibilities for the creativity and innovation climate in your organization.

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"How is it that people say they want creativity but in reality often reject it?" ~ Jack Goncalo, Asst. Professor of Organizational Behavior, University of Pennsylvania and co-author of new research published in .

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It may also explain all those positive things that could be happening in your life when you leave, as many creatives have done, to work for themselves, unfettered by "silence and eye-rolls" for those creative ideas and plans. 

Note:  This post was originally listed on my subject specific mini-blog site revelnnovation.posterous.com

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 The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers.

Fresh research indicates they don't even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed as a positive change agent, actually makes people squirm.

 

Below:  A cartoonist was hired to graphically capture work at a university event:  Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy.  Mind mapping and visuals have a far greater reach in thinking, remembering and synthesizing than traditional notetaking.  I'm exploring mind-mapping for this reason for a university event I have coming up in October.  ~ Deb

via flickr.com   Photo:  Professional cartoonist Lloyd Dangle provides a graphic recording as part of the USC Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy conference December 3, 2010. The conference was hosted by the USC Vice President of Research, Randy Hall, and Marty Kaplan and Johanna Blakley from the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center. More at LearCenter.org.

"How is it that people say they want but in reality often reject it?" said Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant professor of and co-author of research to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal . The paper reports on two 2010 experiments at the University of Pennsylvania involving more than 200 people.

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 Studies on bias against creative ideas show that uncertainty makes us less able to recognize creativity, perhaps when we need it most.

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The studies' findings include:

  • Creative ideas are by definition novel, and novelty can trigger feelings of uncertainty that make most people uncomfortable.
  • People dismiss creative ideas in favor of ideas that are purely practical -- tried and true.
  • Objective evidence shoring up the validity of a creative proposal does not motivate people to accept it.
  • Anti-creativity bias is so subtle that people are unaware of it, which can interfere with their ability to recognize a creative idea.

To uncover bias against creativity, the researchers used a subtle technique to measure unconscious bias.

...Results revealed that while people explicitly claimed to desire creative ideas, they actually associated creative ideas with negative words such as "vomit," "poison" and "agony."

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 The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity."

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Goncalo said this bias caused subjects to reject ideas for new products that were novel and high quality.

The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity."

The study, "The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas," might validate the frustrations of creative people, Goncalo said.

The paper reports on two 2010 experiments at the University of Pennsylvania involving more than 200 people.    Reference: Cornell University

From the commentary on this blog post: 

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People dismiss creative ideas in favor of ideas -- tried and true.  Tell this to Ptolemy and Copernicus... and Galileo, Tesla, and Darwin.  Oh wait... turns out they were ridiculed for their innovation. To death.  And then some.

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Timing A Reminder is Everything: 3 Things That Cause Ethical Breakdowns in Workplace Culture | TLNT & Reveln

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As I mentioned in a comment today on a helpful blog post by , it's the stories of values-in-action (or lack of action) that make the difference.  Stories about actions have vastly more traction than mission, vision & value words stamped on a coffee mug.  The stories bring such words to life.

A consulting colleague, who has based his 30+ year practice solidly on values, often says said that it's the hire & fire examples, the boundary setting stories based on values that prove which company values, AND leadership values, are real and which are lip service.  Is the talk with or without the walk?   

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If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.  ~ Yiddish proverb
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Consider the often cited Enron story, values can be a cascade failure.  

Consider the less cited, but action oriented example from the tainted Tylenol scare of 1982.  Johnson and Johnson made good on their values & promises, which were about trust and their company values.  The company lost over $100 million as they bought back ALL unused Tylenol from retailers and consumers, regardless of whether the product came from the factories that were the source of the contamination or not.

Our shrink wrapped safety procedures today, can be directly traced to their leading, walk-the-talk example.

Leaders do have blind spots, as we all do.  Leaders do make bad decisions, as we all do.  I wrote about the status quo and ethics two years ago citing a Harvard Business Review study, Why do good leaders make bad decisions?

From that study:
One reason major mistakes happen is self-interest. Most people don’t realize self-interest operates at a subconscious level. We’re not even aware of how self-interested we are.  [Consider] the  John Thain bonus story. Is there anyone who believes that he is not a smart enough guy to figure out that taking or giving [large] bonuses [was not] a sensible thing to do?
 A Wall Street Journal summary of the article by Erin White also highlights three lessons including:

People need to recognize that we are biased in every single situation. There’s no such thing as objectivity.  The first thing leaders should do to reduce their odds of making bad decisions is walk into an important decision situation saying, “Ok, I know that we are potentially biased in a variety of ways. Let’s try to identify what those are.”
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...we are biased in every single situation. There’s no such thing as objectivity. ~ Erin White 
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Keeping ethics and values alive and breathing is the challenge.  In my work, leaders must model values; they must walk the talk constantly, but especially when the risk & temptations appear.  What do you think of Lance's three part suggestions?

Here's a great post by  on what it take to maintain ethics in an organization.  

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Classroom lessons

Dan Ariely is a great author and his book Predictable Irrationality is a favorite of mine. He recently wrote about an issue he dealt with in his classroom:

....my undergraduate students ...promised that if they used their laptops, it would only be for course-related activities like taking notes. However, as the semester drew on...they were Facebooking more and more.   ...I became increasingly frustrated.”

...A couple of his students took it upon themselves to set up an experiment. They wrote two emails to the students in class (half would get one email, the other half would get the alternative). In one of the emails, they supplied a link to the purported answers to the final exam. In the other email, they still supplied a link to it but, as a postscript note, they said that the university prohibited gaining any unfair advantage. The results?

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A culture of unethical behavior doesn’t come and go quickly.  ~ Lance Haun
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Using Google Analytics, the students tracked how many people from each group visited the website. ...without the honor code reminder, about 69 percent of the class accessed the website with the answers. However, when the message included the reminder about the honor code, 41 percent accessed the website. As it turns out, students who were reminded of the honor code were significantly less likely to cheat. 

Changing the tune

Combining the example from Ariely’s classroom and the code of ethics [60 pages long]  from Enron, I think we get a much clearer picture of what causes ethical breakdowns. It seems to be three parts:

  1. It must be clear — ...Ethics should be clear, ...no wiggle room, a...no excuse why a person couldn’t read and clearly understand it in a few minutes.
  2. There must be reminders — ...When faced with major decisions, a reminder about the code of ethics can be imperative to preventing [lapses by those tempted.]
  3. Look out for culture creep — ...Ariely’s class turned into a place where ethical decisions were unclear   .... A culture of unethical behavior doesn’t come and go quickly.

...the third one is the most difficult. 

Lance Haun is Contributing Editor for TLNT.

It's the day to day decisions, the moments of clarity of whether stated value & ethics have really been taken to heart, most often modeled by leaders, that make all the difference.  I'm an organization development professional when I've taken the role to support leaders in making the best choices, including the tough ones that sometimes come at a high cost, with lasting impact.

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 It's the day to day decisions, the moments of clarity of whether stated value & ethics have really been taken to heart, most often modeled by leaders, that make all the difference.    ~ Yiddish proverb

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Leaders are the ones who set the tone.  They can also easily miss things in the complexity of the organizational system.  Enron, Johnson and Johnson, and the classroom cheating examples are three of the sample stories that provide a good range of how challenging it is to walk to talk of ethics in leadership.

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Before you make any decision, consider its effect on the next seven generations.  ~ Hopi proverb

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What is your experience with values and ethics that create an persistent ethical culture?

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Bullying @ Work, Photos & Slides, Center for Independent Living, | Reveln Consulting

Preliminary photos and slides from the Bullying @ Work session at the Center for Independent Living this Friday. We had a full house, great discussion, and dug into the topic quite a bit in the allotted two hours.

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Thank you Stephanie Stiles for the blog post on the CIL website and the kind words about the session.  


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The most frequent form of workplace aggression is not physical, it is emotional and psychological in nature.  -- Loraleigh Keashly, Ph.D.  

Interpersonal and Systemic Aspects of 

Emotional Abuse at Work: 

The Target's Perspective, Violence and Victims. 

New York: 2001. Vol. 16, Iss. 3; pg. 233, 32 pgs

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The full slide share is coming soon!   If you'd like to stay in touch about that and other Reveln news, updates are available:

  1. Facebook business page for Reveln Consulting here,
  2. my LinkedIn profile page here, and
  3. via my Reveln website with this blog post listed here as a link on page 1.

Thanks to Lisa Mangigian for arranging the session and asking me to present. Thank you to Stephanie Stiles for the social media shout outs, the blog post on the CIL website here, the photography and help with the equipment.

Related posts:


Where I'm at these days:

I have three main channels for my work. 

1) My core is the "mothership" Reveln website, which covers the heart of my consulting & executive leader coaching.  I offer the benefits of helping you align your data, people and passion for business.   

2) My 2nd channel is change management that I enjoy with WholeScale change colleagues Ron Koller & Dr. Rick FenwickChangeManagementResources.com is aimed to be a "non-partisan" website of rich resources.

3) My third channel is in Social Media, which I enjoy using with change leaders, consultants, coaches & business owners: Reveln Social Business.

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