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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Fostering Group Cohesion: Promoting unity at the cost of critical thinking. Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243. RationalWiki.

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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. According to Gallup , replacing an employee can cost between one-half to two times their annual salary. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Most of the times people won’t mind or won’t care….but

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Cost containment is one (but not the only) factor of company operations. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Instill discipline.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Make-good efforts cost more on the back end than doing things right on the front end. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. Lack of attentiveness to quality has cost the United States its global marketplace dominance. Faster innovation. Nonconformance is costly.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars. International migration is on the rise.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. With these savings, Uber seized a huge cost advantage over taxis and traditional car services. But others did this, too.