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When is Spinning the Message a Good Thing?

Marshall Goldsmith

I always teach that leaders who knowingly commit ethics violations should never be coached - they should be fired. This dysfunctional spinning led to countless disasters for buyers - who lost their homes and ruined their credit ratings. To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit [link].

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A Lesson from Warren Buffet about Ethical Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

The far more interesting question from our standpoint is why Warren Buffett, known for his embrace of ethical business practices, failed to understand the unethicality of Sokol's actions when he learned of them, and intervene. Martin Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Tenbrunsel is the Rex and Alice A.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Negotiations and the Divided Government

Strategy Driven

The second objective of all three parties was the avoidance of a credit rating downgrade. At the time (prior to the actual downgrade), the threat of a credit downgrade forced all three parties to the negotiating table. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This was believed to be highly unlikely.