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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

What’s more, military personnel have soft skills that the private sector also values, problem solving, team building, crisis management, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, and creative thinking among them. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Set clear policies.

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When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating

Harvard Business Review

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Setting goals is one of the established tools that managers have to increase staff motivation and performance. This research was recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records. There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter.

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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business Review

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. You and Your Team Series. Mark Chussil.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).