Embed new behaviors through role modeling, reinforcement, communication and feedback.

FORBES: Shaping Your Company's Decision Style

Additionally, women leaders are more likely than their male peers to demonstrate types of leadership behavior that improve corporate organizational performance, including participative decision-making, role modeling, inspiration, expectations and rewards, and mentoring (p. 7).

FORBES: Investors Changing the World, One Woman at a Time

Providing local communities and individuals with access to credit and the skills and education needed to bolster local economies is invaluable in terms of job creation, local innovation and community role modeling, especially for communities of color.

FORBES: Lending For The Greater Good

Whether it is the controversial challenge to give, from Buffet and Gates, the longtime role modeling of changemakers such as Pierre Omidyar, or the celebrity of the newest billionaires, you literally could not turn a page without noting how the individuals on the list were (or were not) reinvesting their time, talent, and treasure in both people and planet.

FORBES: The Golden Thread of the Forbes 400 List