What's your reaction when the leader of your organization makes a record number of stock trades - more than all managers combined - and gets rich on those trades, most made in response to deals cut by the leader and obvious insider trading?
What's your reaction when the leader of your organization makes a record number of stock trades - more than all managers combined - and gets rich on those trades, most made in response to deals cut by the leader and obvious insider trading?
When a leader and his or her family members receive lavish gifts from bad actors in your industry and/or those who want favorable treatment from your organization, what can you do to demand more ethical behavior?
When a leader and his or her family members receive lavish gifts from bad actors in your industry and/or those who want favorable treatment from your organization, what can you do to demand more ethical behavior?
How should you judge leaders who are situationally ethical; who loudly condemn some employees or members who violate organizational values, while excusing and even supporting the very same behaviors in others?
How should you judge leaders who are situationally ethical; who loudly condemn some employees or members who violate organizational values, while excusing and even supporting the very same behaviors in others?
What actions can you take when the leader of your organization refuses to put controls on initiatives that although offer some advantages, will most certainly endanger both internal and external stakeholders unless constrained?
What actions can you take when the leader of your organization refuses to put controls on initiatives that although offer some advantages, will most certainly endanger both internal and external stakeholders unless constrained?
How ironic is it when a leader censors someone who opposes his or her policies from being heard on traditional media, the censored person finds an alternative outlet, and then has much higher viewership than the leader's own over-hyped event?
How ironic is it when a leader censors someone who opposes his or her policies from being heard on traditional media, the censored person finds an alternative outlet, and then has much higher viewership than the leader's own over-hyped event?
How would you feel if the unpopular CEO of your organization held an event and asked everyone there to make a pledge to the "greatest leader in history" (referring to themself) and take action to keep that CEO in power - even if cheating is required?
How would you feel if the unpopular CEO of your organization held an event and asked everyone there to make a pledge to the "greatest leader in history" (referring to themself) and take action to keep that CEO in power - even if cheating is required?
In an effort to compel compliance on the part of disaffected employees or members, what are your thoughts when a leader offers them cash bribes (for which there is no budget), instead of doing the work to build trust and engagement?
In an effort to compel compliance on the part of disaffected employees or members, what are your thoughts when a leader offers them cash bribes (for which there is no budget), instead of doing the work to build trust and engagement?
What's your takeaway when a leader offers ever-changing lies about his or her role in a cataclysmic event that shaped the lives of all organizational stakeholders, thus robbing those most deeply affected of their grief and dignity?
What's your takeaway when a leader offers ever-changing lies about his or her role in a cataclysmic event that shaped the lives of all organizational stakeholders, thus robbing those most deeply affected of their grief and dignity?
How can leadership justify hosting a costly nationwide convention to rally support when a) it's policies are widely unpopular, b) it's suspected of widespread corruption, and c) the convention's timing conflicts with other more compelling events?
How can leadership justify hosting a costly nationwide convention to rally support when a) it's policies are widely unpopular, b) it's suspected of widespread corruption, and c) the convention's timing conflicts with other more compelling events?
When a leader is clearly obsessing over renaming departments, functions and regional locations in your organization - for foolish and vindictive reasons - while ignoring other vitally important matters, what conclusions can you draw?
When a leader is clearly obsessing over renaming departments, functions and regional locations in your organization - for foolish and vindictive reasons - while ignoring other vitally important matters, what conclusions can you draw?
What's your tolerance level when leadership takes increasingly extreme measures (like the proverbial "dog with a bone") to circumvent both organizational policies and federal law in pursuit of a widely unpopular, impractical and harmful strategy?
What's your tolerance level when leadership takes increasingly extreme measures (like the proverbial "dog with a bone") to circumvent both organizational policies and federal law in pursuit of a widely unpopular, impractical and harmful strategy?
What can you do when leadership wants to rush implementation of controversial new technology that has yet to be tested, is reported to be mistaken-ridden by those building it, and that is designed to harm or discourage certain users?
What can you do when leadership wants to rush implementation of controversial new technology that has yet to be tested, is reported to be mistaken-ridden by those building it, and that is designed to harm or discourage certain users?
How do you feel when the leader of your organization persistently and perpetually threatens both internal and external stakeholders with ruin - if they don't comply with outrageous, nonsensical and/or harmful claims that he or she makes?
How do you feel when the leader of your organization persistently and perpetually threatens both internal and external stakeholders with ruin - if they don't comply with outrageous, nonsensical and/or harmful claims that he or she makes?
When trust in a leader and his or her team - by virtue of their position power - gradually erodes due to promises made exposed as lies and fantasies, how should employees or members react, and what can they do to restore and enforce accountability?
When trust in a leader and his or her team - by virtue of their position power - gradually erodes due to promises made exposed as lies and fantasies, how should employees or members react, and what can they do to restore and enforce accountability?
What happens to an organization when a functional department is manipulated by a leader to go "rogue": meaning that it secretly launches a criminal project that will harm certain stakeholders in an attempt to favor others?
What happens to an organization when a functional department is manipulated by a leader to go "rogue": meaning that it secretly launches a criminal project that will harm certain stakeholders in an attempt to favor others?
How can you counteract a leadership team that is relentlessly focused on solving a "problem" that fails to exist (as per validated research and dozens of court decisions) - in a thinly veiled attempt to retain control of your organization?
How can you counteract a leadership team that is relentlessly focused on solving a "problem" that fails to exist (as per validated research and dozens of court decisions) - in a thinly veiled attempt to retain control of your organization?
What actions can you take when it's clear that leadership wants to keep your oranization's marketing department from desseminating important information that should be publicy known - to the extent that they threaten to fire those in marketing roles?
What actions can you take when it's clear that leadership wants to keep your oranization's marketing department from desseminating important information that should be publicy known - to the extent that they threaten to fire those in marketing roles?
When corruption schemes involving national and regional leadership are revealed at the rate of several per month, what does that tell you about their ethics, and their responsibility to live the values and serve the mission of the organization?
When corruption schemes involving national and regional leadership are revealed at the rate of several per month, what does that tell you about their ethics, and their responsibility to live the values and serve the mission of the organization?
What's an appropriate reaction when the leader of your organization keeps focusing on trivial and selfish matters and is embarrassing you and your fellow employees while behaving like a schoolyard bully toward long-standing partners and friends?
What's an appropriate reaction when the leader of your organization keeps focusing on trivial and selfish matters and is embarrassing you and your fellow employees while behaving like a schoolyard bully toward long-standing partners and friends?
How should you respond to a leader who publicly chastises his or her direct reports and other supporters, claiming that they're the ones holding up a policy agenda that's largely considered illegal, unjust, self-serving, petty or flat out insane?
How should you respond to a leader who publicly chastises his or her direct reports and other supporters, claiming that they're the ones holding up a policy agenda that's largely considered illegal, unjust, self-serving, petty or flat out insane?
If, two years into a new leader’s tenure, he or she has enacted policy after policy that significantly reduce the organization’s financial reserves, harm employees or members and degrade the organization’s brand across the world, what should you do?
If, two years into a new leader’s tenure, he or she has enacted policy after policy that significantly reduce the organization’s financial reserves, harm employees or members and degrade the organization’s brand across the world, what should you do?
When it's revealed that when considering an aggressive and risk-fraught strategy, a leader completely ignored the counsel of close advisors to avoid such and went ahead with it, what should you do?
When it's revealed that when considering an aggressive and risk-fraught strategy, a leader completely ignored the counsel of close advisors to avoid such and went ahead with it, what should you do?