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100 Trends For 2014 (Including Responsibility and Reputation)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Staying competent is an important part of today''s proactive ethical leadership. As we head into 2014, the trend reports at the links below will give you a "business leader''s preview" of what to expect in sectors that range from consumer trends, human resources, leadership and marketing to food, and technology.

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How To Get People To Pay Their Taxes

The Horizons Tracker

The IRS estimates an annual loss of around $428 billion based on data from 2014-2016, and similar tax gaps in the hundreds of billions are reported by other nations. The researchers then requested participants to indicate the portion of this income they would be willing to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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6 Reasons to “Fire” Clients!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Los Angeles Times once reported that our homes contain an average of 300,000 items! [1] This category includes people who regularly belittle us, people consumed by addiction, or people who make dangerous ethical lapses that could compromise our livelihoods. [Edited from Lifestorming by Marshall Goldsmith and Alan Weiss].

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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

The school summarized its decision in a revealing 23-page investigation report , which serves as a useful case study for the way organizations, leaders, and individuals fall victim to moral biases — rationalizations for behaving unethically usually due to one’s self-interest. Performance over principles.

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Online Bootlegging Surges Ahead

Harvard Business Review

authorities, illegal file sharing still accounts for a large proportion of online traffic: Media analytics firm Tru Optik reports that of the nearly 10 billion movies, television shows, and other files downloaded globally in the second quarter of 2014, only about 6% were legal, according to The New York Times.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. Of the 141 people who said they thought networking had helped them, only 17% reported that a weak tie did the trick.

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Credibility Crisis: 4 Sure-Fire Strategies for Cultivating Consumer Trust

Strategy Driven

While the retail industry crisis has been well-reported, particularly with respect to dwindling foot traffic to brick-and-mortar stores. well above April 2014's 81.7 As concerning is that approximately 70% of shoppers who do add items to their online shopping cart do not complete the purchase.

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