Flexibility and Resilience; Knower or Learner; Understanding Ethical Leadership; Decision-Making and Reputation; Habitual Blaming and Costs
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This Week’s Contents
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
(Red Diamonds Essays)
Knowers and Learners: Which Type Can Create a Healthy Future?
(Expertise: Peter O’Donnell guest post)
Understanding Ethical Leadership
(Expertise: Rob Chesnut)
How Decision-Making Helps Determine Reputation Strength
(Red Diamonds Essays)
Why We Habitually Blame and What it Often Costs Us
(Red Diamonds Essays)
We are taught to fight against adversity and crisis and sometimes, that’s what life requires.
Yet there are other times when fighting is the less wise and effective of choices.
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived,” wrote Robert Jordan.
What is often smarter is exhibiting poise, flexibility and bending.
This Red Diamonds Essays piece talks about it and why it’s important:
Bending for Stronger Resilience
The gap between what a leader is confident they know and what they actually understand can be significant. When this happens, it’s obviously a problem.
Peter O’Donnell, founder and president of Healthy Futures Group, volunteered to write about it in this Red Diamonds Features’ guest post:
Knowers and Learners: Which Type Can Create a Healthy Future?
Ethics are not as regularly practiced and evident as expected and needed. Then, there’s a steady stream of media reporting of scandals. Ethics however is not “rocket science.”
Rob Chesnut is the former Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb and the author of Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution — and Why That’s Good for All of Us.
He converses about how to improve the odds of successful ethical leadership and organizational conduct in this Red Diamonds Features’ article:
Understanding Ethical Leadership
or if you prefer, you can read it on LinkedIn:
Understanding Ethical Leadership
How often do we equate the quality of our decision-making to what our reputation becomes or is currently? Sometimes, probably. Always, maybe not.
This is not to suggest that all decisions should be considered solely for how they could and likely will impact our reputation. It is to suggest that we consider more strongly when our decisions will travel away from morals, ethics and wisdom.
This piece takes a look at the topic:
How Decision-Making Helps Determine Reputation Strength
(Red Diamonds Essays)
Blame is a part of human emotion, psychology and behavior. Sometimes it’s important to assign it. When it becomes a habit in our interactions, it does become problematic, often in ways we don’t notice.
This discussion is not addressing blame where people are exploited, abused or whose core humanity is violated. It is about what happens when won’t allow any trouble inside of us to be a part of our belief system and responsibility.
This piece examines the psychology, problems and risks:
Why We Habitually Blame and What it Often Costs Us
(Red Diamonds Essays)
or if you prefer:
Why We Habitually Blame and What it Often Costs Us
(LinkedIn)
Michael Toebe is a specialist for reputation, professional relationships communication and wiser crisis management. He writes, edits and publishes the weekly Red Diamonds Newsletter as well as Red Diamonds Features and Red Diamonds Essays (all on Medium).
Contact: RedDiamondsMedia@Gmail.com
Twitter: ReputationExtra
Until next week…
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
and
“There’s a way of doing it better — find it.”
Thomas Edison
