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Ego Free Leadership

Coaching Tip

At a time when workers feel a sense of disconnect with their jobs and companies-- a September 2015 Gallup Poll recorded U.S. Between 2009 and 2013, while many in his industry closed their doors during the Great Recession, Encore's revenues and profits increased 300%, operating cost declined 30%, and the stock price rose 1,200%.

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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. By implementing small, cost-effective pilot projects that demonstrate the potential of new ideas, organizations can counteract these clichés with tangible results (Brown, 2018). Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243. “You have to wear many hats.”

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3 Expectations of Millennial Employees

Chart Your Course

Often older employees view younger colleagues as being less committed and lacking a good work ethic. They will not prioritize companies that may let them go, at the cost of relationships that will endure. The cost of turnover related to this statistic is significant. Copyright © 2015 Leading Tomorrow, All rights reserved.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Provide leadership. 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. When a business loses sight of the customer and what they really need they often run into difficulties.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business Review

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10, and generated 50% more earnings (defined by market capitalization).

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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. The quality performance standard is zero defects.

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

Harvard Business Review

Meyer claimed to have not known about Smith’s behavior, but evidence emerged that he had knowledge of domestic abuse claims back in 2015. Reading the report with that lens can help leaders better understand the biases that get in the way of ethical conduct and ethical organizations. Performance over principles.

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