Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we engage in process of "p….

We try to effectively free ourselves up to be creative, to think about what might be possible, to come up with truly innovative ways to enact our val….

Communicating and celebrating the times when individuals have made values-based decisions is, of course, empowering and can provide role models. But ….

I am most comfortable in a "learner" role, I may raise my values-related concerns by asking the well-crafted and well-timed question, rather than by ….

When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a p….

Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or partne….

Time pressures are a reality of business life that cannot be eliminated entirely and that even can create a beneficial focus at times, it can be powe….

I have to think that we all have - at one time or another - felt that our own voice was silenced or under-valued. Who among us did not have the exper….

In short, we needed to shift our thinking and teaching about values-driven leadership from asking the question "What is the right thing to do?" to as….

As for my interest in diversity, I believe it is closely aligned with my work on the project, Giving Voice To Values. That is, there are often times ….

I believed that we would all come to better decisions and we would create more humane and ultimately more livable and more sustainably productive wor….

It seems that simply being willing to express our views clearly, persuasively and without malice, can be a powerful invitation to others who may be l….

The whole endeavor becomes less about a constraint on action and rather about helping us to be more of who we would actually like to be, at our best ….

We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would bring to any other busine….

Throughout history we have seen the tyranny of the powerful over the less powerful - think of the history of colonialism or of slavery - and the trag….

By creating explicit occasions to invite dissenting viewpoints on a new project, strategy or policy, leaders enable employees to feel that their ques….

Interestingly, many of the organizational characteristics that have been identified as conducive to effectively managing diversity and as conducive t….

Typically efforts to address values and ethics in business education and leadership development tend to focus on building Awareness and teaching Anal….