N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! What is it? Everyone knows you’re a lousy leader if you can’t make decisions. Great insights Susan. link] Elllen Weber Wow – Mike, thanks for the way you weave the parts together with such agility.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Categories : Businesswomen Bloggers 4 Comments 1 Tweets that mention There’s Still Time :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 1:07 pm [.] 2 Kelly Evers January 12th, 2011 at 1:51 pm Great blog! Kelly Evers, founder of [link] 3 Sheri B January 16th, 2011 at 11:55 am Thanks for the 21 day plan. Not to doing.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. How sad is this?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% On a regional basis, the share of all successions attributable to ethical lapses rose most sharply in the U.S. of all successions in 2007–11 to 3.3% of all successions in 2007–11 to 3.3% and Canada (from 1.6% to 8.8%).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. Truman Please comment below sharing your thoughts and insights on what you believe defines great leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. In fact, you might be interested in reading a previous post that I authored on this topic: [link]. – I'd be interested in your thoughts. Thanks for the suggestion Dan. I am not specialist but I try to learn.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

That’s when the usual ethical and moral constraints are sometimes abandoned – always for good reasons, and always ‘just this once’ – in the name of expediency. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. That’s why, inevitably, there is a constant pressure to let the end justify the means.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

That’s when the usual ethical and moral constraints are sometimes abandoned – always for good reasons, and always ‘just this once’ – in the name of expediency. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. That’s why, inevitably, there is a constant pressure to let the end justify the means.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Ethics Statement. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Provide business owners with a totally different perspective on how they can operate and be more successful. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, longterm growth.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values benefiting other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization. Cash outlays are always risks.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

My firm employs a little less than 100 people; we have no debt, we pay vendors on time, and have always operated a profitable business. The work ethic has shifted to people who can understand and appreciate hard work, a sensibility that is lost today on many of America’s emerging workforce. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2011

Building a clear, cohesive, operational Vision for the individual. Taking concepts (quality management, ethics, outside-the-box thinking) out of the esoteric and into daily operation. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Conceptualizing a specific action plan to be effective on all branches of the tree.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. 17 percent). All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Going ‘outside the box’ to shift perceptions enables any company to think, plan and operate in productive new ways. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. It is big and grandiose.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Curiously, that charity has been clouded by public investigations of questionable ethics and dubious fund-raising practices. Some people simply don’t know or care where you’re coming from. Spot them and avoid them. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode. Morale wavers and becomes uneven, per operating unit and division. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This is the distinction between what he terms the 'Character Ethic' vs the 'Personality Ethic' The prior depends on deep changes within each of us including our view of creating a legacy for future generations. Another key distinction is one highlighted by Stephen Covey in his 7-Habits books.

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