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Soft Corporate Cultures

Coaching Tip

Recently, speaking to the Greater Ann Arbor Area Economic Club about tough love and discipline in both education and the business world, said "We trained a generation of your Americans that they get the "gold star" whether their stuff is any good or not. Is Bribery an Ethical Condition of Doing Business in the Global Economy?

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Global sales needs are also local sales needs

Strategy Driven

Authenticity is not a specific characteristic – it is derived from the ethical, honest, and consistent actions of your total words and deeds. Is it true that many leaders are not keeping up with changes in the market, changes in technology, and changes in human capital needs? Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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What is the value? Where is the value? Who perceives the value?

Strategy Driven

You’ve placed a value on yourself that reflects in your selling skills, your attitude, your belief system, your truthfulness, and your ethics. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Walmart's Shades of Gray

Harvard Business Review

As the New York Times recently reported, in the early 2000s, when Walmart de Mexico was building stores at a furious pace (making the country the company's second largest market), it was making illegal payments to get building permits and speed store expansion. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

” He further stresses that a “professional does not merely work; he/she has to be educated and trained, (socialized) as member of an occupational domain, supervised by his/her peers and held accountable.” It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose. ” Except today, they’re not.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. The Walmart bribery scandal is one of the most closely-watched cases of alleged malfeasance by a global company.