Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

Too often, worthwhile initiatives are pushed aside because they do not receive the critical level of support needed to move forward – merit and positive cost-benefit alone are not typically enough to ‘sell’ an idea. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] Kavita Great article. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. On with the exam… Section I: Character. myself that.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

By Webster’s definition it means “the steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code; incorruptibility.&# In an article about integrity, savvydaddy.com does a great job in outlining key components to teaching integrity as I’ll extract: Be the example. Keep your promises. A child’s memory is unbelievable.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly return in the 20th Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Ant-Man And The Wasp. So, let’s check out the leadership lessons you can find in Ant-Man And The Wasp in the latest Reel Leadership article. These pastries cost more than the oatmeal he’d okayed on the budget.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Cost containment is one (but not the only) factor of company operations. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Your wisdom rings through the article, Mike! I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. ” Fascinating stuff here, and this is an area where brainpowered facilitation helps immensely.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It's not – Unless the request infringes upon our values, moral or ethical standards using no as a response is just intellectually lazy, avoidance or ego centric – imho [link] mikemyatt So Dan, tell me how you really feel All kidding aside, you and I are definitely on the same page here. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

The article is less clear about what brought this on. Ethics Finance Global business' cent per aluminum can. Is it bad rules set by the London Metal Exchange? The involvement of banks such as Goldman and J.P. Morgan in the metals trade? Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law. And then, of course, there are costs.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

The following article is a guest post from my friend and colleague, Brock Brown. I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. As the great ethicist Dr. Larry Axline said, “Moral values in action is ethics.” Doing the right thing can be seen as too broad.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This article will examine the last five Building Blocks of Trust. This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But this can also impose costs on people not directly connected to the company. naqiewei/Getty Images. Principal-agent problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Our research suggests an alternative to this race to the bottom. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Articles about artificial intelligence often begin with an intention to shock readers, referencing classic works of science fiction or alarming statistics about impending job losses. If employees have thought about proper ethical limitations of AI, they can be important guards against its misuse. Taylor Callery/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The availability of this data creates fertile ground for robos to provide algorithmic insights and recommendations that deliver highly predictive, error-proof, and low-cost advising. The costs of AI-enabled tools are falling, and availability is rising. Cloud-based hardware is also increasingly available to any business at low cost.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There can be little doubt that a lot of activity goes into management research: according to the Web of Knowledge, over 8,000 articles are published every year in the 170+ journals in the field of “Management,” adding more and more new rooms. How do we know what a contribution is or how individual articles add up?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The high cost of bad hires. They compared the cost of a toxic worker with the value of a superstar, which they define as a worker who is so productive that a firm would have to hire additional people or pay current employees more just to achieve the same output. and 3) daily performance data. Who is likely to be toxic?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The Prophet Pacific Standard Is it ethical to charge people money in exchange for telling them that their debt is their own lazy fault? In the case of personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, the answer is "probably not." Maybe the companies would have been better off listening to a few college students. Andy O''Connell Whose Fault is Debt?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Underestimating costs that employers typically take out of your paycheck or cover is “the biggest thing that bites people,” she says. “You need to be self-motivated, have good organizational skills, and a strong work ethic,” explains King. . “You have to be able to deal with ambiguity,” says King.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. Research shows that consulting fees foregone are multiplied six-fold in opportunity costs each year that action is put off. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change. link] Kathy Gillen This is a powerful article, Mike! Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

A recent Recode article provides an interesting perspective on the evolution of HR at Uber. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR. But this focus on a single element of the HR value proposition can perpetuate a crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Abraham Zaleznik wrote about this myth over 20 years ago in his classic HBR article, " Real Work." Over the last year blogs at US News , Daily Finance , Forbes , and articles like this one in the New York Times have questioned the work ethic and entitlement mentality of generation Y.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass. Expand the focus from today’s business case for action to tomorrow’s business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor. More diligence is possible.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. It raised the cost of the company substantially.”. When he was asked to join the company as VP of marketing, along with Hugo Powell as president, the company’s costs were eating at its profits. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella.

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