This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. Available in print and digital formats. How to build a morally intelligent organization: Hiring honorable people is just the beginning. The culture of a morally intelligent organization is infused with worthwhile values, and its members consistently act in ways aligned with those values. Its major...

The best-performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. Lennick and Kiel extensively identify the moral components at the heart of the recent financial crisis, and illuminate the monetary and human costs of failed moral leadership in global finance, business and government. The authors begin by systematically defining the principles of moral intelligence and the behavioral...

This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel, Ph.D.. Available in print and digital formats. Compassion is the heart of leadership: lessons from the experiences of world-class executives. When you are a leader, embracing your responsibility to serve others flows into compassion. Actively caring about others means that you do things that actively...

Smart financial decisions boost more than your bottom line--they'll make you healthier and happier too! Are you one of the 90% of people who are stressed about money? If so, you know it can take its toll on every part of your life. Financial health, physical health and happiness are profoundly interconnected. It's almost impossible to enjoy any one of these without the help of the other two. The authors describe this phenomenon as the intersection...

"This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (ISBN: 9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. Why even the best new business models fail when they aren't supported by moral competence--and how to "bake integrity in" from the very beginning"--Resource description page.