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Leaders Make Values Visible

Marshall Goldsmith

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. I was shown a wonderful video on Enron’s ethics and integrity. It was one of the most smoothly professional presentations on ethics and values that I have ever seen. Enron is a great example.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for this most recent group of transitioning service members is 5.8 percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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The Path to Transparency

Coaching Tip

A deliberately byzantine system of virtual tunnels that conceal the origins and destinations of data, and thus the identity of clients, Tor has been around since 2001, when programmers from M.I.T. That could change anytime. and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory introduced it at a California security conference. “As

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

This is problematic when you consider the Navy’s sophisticated surveillance, navigation and weapons systems and the importance of maintaining the readiness of national defense. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process. why is everyone smiling?

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

in 2001 to 16% in 2015. administrators for every tenured or tenure-track faculty member within the UC system. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. workforce grew by 90%, while employment in other occupations grew by less than 40%. A similar trend can be found in other OECD countries.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. Enron owned the largest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S., Ethics Failure Finance'

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. In 2009 the Institute of Medicine called on all health systems to collect these data to help monitor and remedy disparities in care.