Author Archives: John Willis

I AM RESPONSIBLE – A Creed for Executives

CEOs and executives have many signs pointing us in many directions.  We have fiduciary duties to our organizations. We have ethics and compliance statements providing formal and informal decision guidelines. We hold memberships in professional associations and know their ethical standards.  We operate under laws and regulations aimed to keep us, our competition, and society […]

A Leader: One Who Uses the Present Well in Time Management

We all agree that life is important.  Yet even the most gifted among human beings make decisions which squander hours, days, weeks, months and collectively, years.  Even if we are accomplished professionals, sometimes the most important areas of life–deep inner emotional health, or living lives with daily joy and peace, despite changing external conditions–is an elusive […]

Moral Injury – Insights Into Executive Morality and Toxic Organizations

What is Moral Injury? We know or have heard of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in regard to combat veterans.  “Moral Injury” (MI) is a fairly new classification of a condition they suffer being discussed by psychologists and psychiatrists.  On the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two PhDs, Shira Maguen and Brett Litz, wrote a […]