Entries by Tom Laughlin

Ethical Decision Making

Ethical Decision Making by James (Jamie) Fischer Ethical leaders want to do right things the right way. They know that ethical failures can corrode and corrupt individuals, organizations, and communities. Their challenge is finding the most ethical approach without overly restricting conduct because such restraint can limit communication and creativity as people become naturally risk […]

Bully!  Problem and Opportunity

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team Get a free PDF version of Chad’s Book, “Thinking Aloud” now at https://ethinact.com/thinking-aloud/. Bully!  Problem and Opportunity During a break […]

The Beauty in Potential

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team Get a free PDF version of Chad’s Book, “Thinking Aloud” now at https://ethinact.com/thinking-aloud/. The Beauty in Potential It is spring.  […]

Questioning Orders

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team Get a free PDF version of Chad’s Book, “Thinking Aloud” now at https://ethinact.com/thinking-aloud/. Why? Because… “When I give an order, […]

Beyond Training Police in Moral Courage

Ethical Leaders in Action was mentioned in a recent article in the Star Tribune for our law enforcement training to reinforce moral courage. http://www.startribune.com/x/600013882?optimizely_disable=true Moral courage is one of the three elements of in the ELA Elements of Moral Action model.  This model is applicable in organizations beyond just law enforcement.  This is a formula […]

King Lear’s Lessons for Grown-Ups

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team Get a free PDF version of Chad’s Book, “Thinking Aloud” now at https://ethinact.com/thinking-aloud/. King Lear’s Lessons for Grown-Ups When […]

My Ideas

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team Get a free PDF version of Chad’s Book, “Thinking Aloud” now at https://ethinact.com/thinking-aloud/. My Ideas I tend to fall […]

The Elements of Moral Action: Transcript

The Elements of Moral Action This is the transcript of the Ethical Leaders in Action video: The Elements of Moral Action.  The video can be viewed on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/2nD3Gpn_L8M. :03 I’m Chad Weinstein for Ethical Leaders in Action.  Welcome to our first video blog.  One of the metaphors that leaders love to […]

Of Mountains, Molehills and Change Management    

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team Get a free PDF version of Chad’s Book, “Thinking Aloud” now at https://ethinact.com/thinking-aloud/. Of Mountains, Molehills and Change Management    […]

The Ranting Tree

An excerpt from Chad’s book “Thinking Aloud: Reflections on Ethical Leadership”. We hope you enjoy the essay – and perhaps introduce the questions below as a way to start conversations with your teammates. – ELA Team See a list of other posts in this series at Blog Post Series The Ranting Tree: A Shortage of […]