The ‘Good’ and the ‘Bad’ organization: an ethics perspective- with Antoinette Weibel and Otti Vogt

Podcast Notes

Professor Dr. Antoinette Weibel is full professor for human resource management at the University of St. Gallen. She is President of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance at the University of St.Gallen, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Media and Communications Management and the Institute for Business Ethics at the University of St.Gallen. Her current core project, ‘Good Organisations’, asks how organisations can become better members of society.

Otti is a disruptive thought leader with over 20 years experience in implementing strategic business change in multi-cultural, complex businesses and in crafting human-centric learning organisations. As COO and Chief Transformation officer in ING, he was until recently accountable for ING’s global digital transformation programme and continuous optimisation of operational service performance for more than 20m customers worldwide. He is also a certified leadership coach, associate of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) and was recently named Top 20 Global Thought Leader on Agile.

Tune in to this episode as we explore the power of framing the right questions, how we can enable each others’ flourishing, the role of high quality relationships and active reflection — and why no singular idea will solve everything.

Key highlights 

We discussed:

• What do we mean by doing ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in business?
• The impact of plurality and multiculturalism
• The power of sociality and facilitating higher quality relationships
• Defining a ‘flourishing’ individual and society
• Balancing globalism vs community and landscape

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Recorded on 22 March 2022.

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