Ethisphere announced the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics on January 19, 2012. The list of 100 individuals represents those that had significant impact in the realm of business ethics over the course of the last year — from law changing hunger strikes to using recycled materials to create $10,000, energy efficient homes — … Continue reading
Here’s a list of annual publications that rank top companies who are trying to do the right thing: – America’s Most Trustworthy Companies www.trustacrossamerica.com – World’s Most Admired Companies – Fortune www.fortune.com (This ranking includes a list of the best & worst in social responsibility) – Green Rankings (environmental performance) – Newsweek www.newsweek.com – Global … Continue reading
Trust Across America™, a think tank dedicated to unraveling the complexities of trustworthy business behavior, announced the results of its second annual study of almost 2500 public companies on December 19, 2011, naming Smithfield Foods as the Most Trustworthy Public Company for 2011. The Trust Across America study independently analyzes over 200 data points with … Continue reading
I’m reading a 2004 book on trust, “Building Trust: leading CEOs speak out: how they create it, strengthen it, and sustain it,” a publication of the Arthur W. Page Society. The following template for building trust was developed in the 1930’s, “another time of dismay about corporate performance and economic uncertainty.” Arthur W. Page, the … Continue reading
Ethisphere will ring The Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, 9/28/11, at 9:30a.m. EDT with leaders from select NYSE-listed World’s Most Ethical Companies in recognition of the financial success associated with doing business the right way. Companies who will join Ethisphere for the bell ringing include: AECOM, Aflac, Ford, General Electric, … Continue reading
The Better Business Bureau highlighted an article recently on Steve Jobs demonstrating the value of trust in leadership. Leaders like Apple’s famously difficult-to-work-for Steve Jobs demonstrate that leaders don’t need to be perfect people — but they do need to have the trust and respect of those who follow them. The article, “It comes down … Continue reading
More and more companies are awakening to bring the heart and soul back to business, realizing that they don’t have to choose between being in integrity and being prosperous … they can have both. According to the Conscious Capitalism Institute (CCI), Conscious Capitalism is a philosophy based on the belief that a more complex form … Continue reading
I met Aneil Mishra more than a year ago after he found my blog and contacted me. Aneil was recently interviewed by Trust Across America. Aneil is an author, Professor and Director of Executive Education for the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. He is an internationally recognized and widely … Continue reading
My friend, Jack Vinson, wrote a blog post, Trust is always important, that referenced an article I wrote for Leadership Excellence magazine, Why Trust Matters: it’s the glue that holds us together. Jack’s post was selected to be part of July’s Carnival of Trust, hosted this month by Doug Cornelius of Compliance Building. Carnival of … Continue reading