It’s amazing, though heart-warming, to find a report that one senior banker is accepting publicly that the banking industry did things wrongly over the past few years; and that it ignored basic principles of ethics and sound business.
According to a report in Britain’s ‘Guardian’ newspaper, Stephen Green, the chairman of London-based global bank HSBC, made [...]

Peter Vajda considers today’s corporate willingness to accept that “stepping on others to get what you want” is acceptable behavior. What are the causes? What can we do to stop it?

Not having what you want may be unfortunate, but it’s not worth ruining your life over. Greed has not only been rampant in recent years, says Carmine Coyote, it’s been built into organizational culture. The results was predictable. Maybe it’s time to change how we look at what we want.

What you know should mean more than whom you know
It used to seem obvious that the purpose of a bank is to provide a safe place to put your money. The phrase, ‘it’s in the bank“ could even be used without irony to mean that whatever it referred to was an absolute certainty.
Recently, however, it’s [...]

John Kador wonders why so many leaders find it nearly impossible to apologize. Is it because apology is regarded as a sign of weakness? In fact, the opposite is true, provided you take into account some key elements for making your apology effective.

I love it when ideas and thoughts I’ve been putting forward for some time suddenly become mainstream. Back in 2004, I began to point out the silliness of multi-tasking at a time when people boasted about their ability to handle more simultaneous tasks than their colleagues; now no one has a good word for it. [...]

Nina Simosko advises us to take a leaf out of the behavior of small children and cultivate more open and free-spirited approaches to handling the leadership situations we confront.

Carmine Coyote offers a self-defense course to prevent you being hurt in the future, personally, financially and in career terms, by the kind of people who have been the architects of the current economic crisis and the situations they have brought about.

Peter Vajda considers the ’shoulds’ that too often pre-program people’s lives and suggests ways to make choice your guiding principle instead.

Carmine Coyote considers what it takes for a corporate culture to count as civilized and what we need to do to get back on the path towards a set of workplace standards of which we can all be proud.