Running the Tapes: Finding the Courage to Speak Up When Organizational Leadership Fails Us [Paperback]

This book aims to inspire courage, nurture leadership growth at all levels, and offer leaders in positions of power a clear case for why opting for environments of ethical accountability is synonymous, rather than at odds with, an organization's self-interest.

Chapter 1- Leadership at Face Value Chapter 2- Losing True North: When the Ethical Compass in Leadership Fails Chapter 3- Facing the Greatest Trap Chapter 4- Shadows in Plain View Chapter 5- The Rarest Commodity Chapter 6- Running the Tapes Chapter 7- Some Laws of Leverage Chapter 8- The Shrouded Roads of Strategy, Timing, and Shock Chapter 9- When the Moral Hand Guides the Selfish One Chapter 10- Enemies of My Enemy Chapter 11- The Ferrymans Dues Chapter 12- Seeking a Path Chapter 13- Regaining True North

This practical and accessible exploration of ethics in organizational leadership contains several underlying themes: first, that even the most morally stalwart organizations are vulnerable to the ethical challenges that come from failings of leadership, particularly executive leadership. A great focus today is being paid to the idea of toxic work environments, and while explorations of culture, team building, and language are all valuable pieces of this discussion, at its heart this is a question of leadership. Stripping away authority as a requisite for leadership empowers everyone at all levels of an organization to take a higher level of ownership over their leadership skills, to become a voice of action and protection for their teammates and the organization when the conventional safeguards of the workplace fail them. The common term for these individuals may be whistleblowers, but rather, are they instead models of leadership that organizations should be paying closer attention to? By drawing a constant dividing line between ethics and organizl2