The Ethical Challenge: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity
- 4h 9m
- Andrew R. McGill (eds), Noel M. Tichy
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2003
The Enron debacle, the demise of Arthur Andersen, questionable practices at Tyco, Qwest, WorldCom, and a seemingly endless list of others have pushed public regard for business and business leaders to new lows. The need for smart leaders with vision and integrity has never been greater. Things need to change—and it will not be easy.
We can take a first step toward producing better business leaders by changing some of our own ideas about what it means to "win." Noel M. Tichy and Andrew R. McGill have brought together a stellar group of contributors from a variety of perspectives—including General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and renowned management gurus Robert Quinn and C. K. Prahalad, among others—to offer insights that will help build better leaders, communities, and organizations. They show how to present a "Teachable Point of View" about business ethics that will help all leaders within an organization:
- Internalize core values
- Build a values-based culture across the organization
- Become engaged to teach the same values lessons to their staff
- Take action and raise the ethical bar
Successful business leaders must be able to articulate their own unique Teachable Point of View on business ethics and drive it through their organization to ensure that everyone knows the ethical line and is neither shy nor silent if others risk crossing it.
About the Editors
Noel M. Tichy, Ph.D., is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Michigan Business School, where he also directs the Global Leadership Program and codirects the Global Business Partnership, linking global companies and research centers in North America, Japan, and Europe. Between 1985 and 1987, Tichy directed management education at General Electric’s worldwide leadership development center in Crotonville, New York. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty he served for nine years on the Columbia University Graduate School of Business faculty. Tichy is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Cycle of Leadership (2002), Corporate Global Citizenship: Doing Business in the Public Eye (with Andrew R. McGill, 1997), Every Business Is a Growth Business (with Ram Charan, 1998), and The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (with Eli Cohen), named one of the top ten business books in 1997 by Business Week. Tichy is also coauthor of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: How Jack Welch Is Making General Electric the World’s Most Competitive Company (with Stratford Sherman). He consults widely in both the private and public sectors, with clients that have included Citibank, Exxon, Pepsico, Honeywell, Hitachi, IBM, Nomura Securities, Oracle, and 3M.
Andrew R. McGill, Ph.D., has a boundary-spanning background as an educator, researcher, consultant, writer, journalist and executive-manager, which he brought to the University of Michigan Business School in 1993 as a professor and codirector of the Global Business Partnership. He developed the courses “Developing the Customer-Driven Organization” and “Human Resources as a Competitive Advantage,” is a core faculty member of the school’s executive Global Leadership Program, and directs the operations and research activities of a unique affiliation among the Michigan Business School and research universities in Europe and Asia. McGill’s research interests focus on the cognitive aspects of organizational change and on organizations becoming more customer-driven. He was instrumental in the launch of Nissan’s luxury Infiniti Division. He has consulted to Ameritech, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Ford, General Motors, Harley-Davison, HarperCollins, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Royal Bank of Canada, Toshiba, and the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority. He is coauthor with William H. Newman and E. Kirby Warren of the business textbook The Process of Management: Strategy, Action, Results, and coeditor with Noel M. Tichy and Lynda St. Clair of Corporate Global Citizenship: Doing Business in the Public Eye, published in 1997.
In this Book
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The Ethical Challenge—How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity
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Introduction: Teaching Your Values and Ethics Will Plant Them Across Your Organization
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Business Ethics Reality Stunned Americans as Enron, Others Misled Investors and Employees
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Ethics and Culture of ServiceMaster Sustain Important Values Over Time
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Sustaining Business Ethics Requires Teachable Point of View
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Business Ethics in Skeptical Times
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Peripheral Issues Can Evolve; “Core Ethics” Must Be Stable
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We Need Great Leader-Teachers with Great Skills and High Ethics
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Ethics “Honor One’s Self” in Your Business Behavior
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Values: The Best Tools to Leada Large Global Organization
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Competence Without Credibility Won’t Win in the Long Run
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Leadership Dilemmas: Ethical Challenges Can Make or Break a CEO
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Ethics and Fundamental Decisions: The Internally Directed and Other-Focused Mindset
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Superstar Entrepreneur Meets Today’s High-Bar Ethics: How Trilogy Is a Very Different Software Company
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Ethics, Virtuousness, and Constant Change
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The Best Ethical Choices Come When Long-Term Impact Rules
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Students Meet Ethical Dilemmas in Their Workplace Challenges
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Ethical Markets Are Essential for Trust, Global Development
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Living Beautiful Values Every Day Makes Focus: HOPE Special
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Corporate Global Citizenship: The Ethical Path for Business
