This is a guest blog from a colleague I met at National SPeaker Association UNconference. Bonnie’s discussion is about a person who takes the ideas of others and promotes them as her own. In my next blog, we’ll be discussing people who lead out of mutual fear vs. mutual trust. Nancy
Fear, concern and even intimidation are very real feelings that develop in many work groups. It’s not uncommon to see a group in which “ladder climbing”, striving, and metaphorically speaking, scratching, is done in order to put one’s needs and desires ahead of others’. I saw this recently in a group where I was consulting. The operations manager was determined to be seen and heard above all others, to the point of bypassing her co-workers and staff members to achieve her goals. She was known to take others’ ideas and present them to leadership as her own. What drives this type of unethical behavior? [Read more…] about Unethical “Ladder Climbing” in the Workplace
