N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. In principle very little; but in practice virtually everything.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 9, 2021

And when they’re not whining or complaining about their organization, they’re gossiping or criticizing what other people do (ugh). And yet, because they put in the time “working,” they think they have a strong work ethic. 13 Key Ingredients of a Strong Work Ethic. 13 Key Ingredients of a Strong Work Ethic.

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Ethics Morale Cooper Learning-by-Doing 136

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Volkswagen. and the U.K., Cross-cultural differences.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Through the blog, I have met with many former career women—from all over the world—who fear they ‘threw it away in their forties’ to become mothers, and can never make it back as the prodigal daughters of business. FTC and Other Organizations Aim to Help Business Owners Get Loans Guest post by Shannon Suetos (learn more about Shannon at.

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Press Release Discount Entrepreneur PR 157

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank. But that’s not the only thing rotten about that culture.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Another well-respected organization, the Corporate Executive Board, released research last year that concluded 75 percent of the employees were not engaged and giving their best efforts and of the 25 percent who were engaged, 60 percent were not aligned with organizational goals. Education is another field he mentioned.

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Conference Bottom-up Software Long-term 261

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. University Representatives—Cohort 1.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 17, 2021

Other people are career-minded ; they have big plans and are committed to achieving their dreams. But if employers primarily use money, instead of challenging and meaningful work, to incentivize a career-minded individual, their efforts may fall flat. Do You Have a Strong Work Ethic? Invest in yourself. Money Talks. Or Does It?

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Motivation 137

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

When an organization stops learning they begin dying. Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Why do we crave leadership nowadays? Because there is so little of it around!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. These 10 principles of trust when employed consistently to your entire organization without bias will build a bridge of loyalty that will stand against the elements. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, gave a speech Monday in which he used the word “culture” 45 times. I’m hoping they mark the beginning of a change in how regulators think about reining in law-breaking and excessive risk-taking at banks. The bank also went after the bonuses of the individuals involved.

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vincent Siciliano, CEO of California-based New Resource Bank , was brought in to turn things around and restore the bank’s founding mission, which is to “serve values-driven businesses and nonprofits that are building a more sustainable world.” A year later, the bank sent out another employee survey.

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Self-aware Banking Open-book CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

By now you’ve probably heard the story of the fraudulent business practices at Wells Fargo – the bank that pressured employees to create false credit card and deposit accounts. In what specific ways does the practice that concerns you violate ethics, customers’ interests, or even the law?

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Ethics Objective Short-term Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

In the early stages of his career he decided he had to speak up about malpractice he had witnessed. How will what you have to say affect the political games being played in the organization? Those new to the organization often fell afoul of the unwritten rules of the game. This applies in all organizations.

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Power Chief Operating Officer Politics COO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Class-based bias, just like gender- and racial-based biases, can seep into workplace systems and artificially hinder the career success of those groups. Class is expressed through cultural differences , not just how much money is in your bank account. A common way that class-based bias plays out is in hiring.

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Class Diversity Company Sports 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Yet, although she rose in the organization, because she wasn’t strategic about whom she gave her 110% to, she squandered her gifts on leaders who didn’t invest in her. When asked how she had built great relationships with three different sponsors, Sian McIntyre, head of Legal at Lloyd’s Banking Group, says simply, “I’ve delivered.”

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Loyalty Bottom-up Short-term Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

I distilled the discussion down into twelve key pieces of advice — "rules" if you will — for getting off to a good start in one''s career. Keep in mind it''s more important to work in a good organization than to start with a good position. There is an old career maxim : "It''s not who you know, it''s who knows you."

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Advice Career 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Similar controversies have erupted in recent years following the publication of Anne Marie Slaughter’s essay “ Why Women Still Can’t Have It All ,” or news of an investment bank intern’s death. While organizations wage wars for talent, it seems talent is at war with itself. I (Over) Work Therefore I Am.

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one of the largest bank fraud schemes in American history. These talented leaders were highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. Arthur Fellow of Ethics, at Harvard Business School.

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Ethics Stress Charisma Crisis 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It’s simply not possible to work 90 hours a week and see to your own basic needs – much less support someone else’s career. But there’s an impact of these kinds of arrangements – he works all of the time, she does all the housework – on organizations. Another group rejected Iron Men’s work-all-the-time ideals. Big Law, take note.).

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

They used to want high salaries to verify their value and stable career paths to allow them to sleep well at night. Now they want purposeful work and jobs that fit clearly into the larger context of their career. Offer purpose and career context, and the talent will come. What talented people want has changed.

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Cooper Customer Loyalty Storytelling Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

In fact, the judge, for "the first time in his 25-year career. billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank. In sentencing the executives responsible for what happened, the judge described how "what has occurred in this case, in terms of wrongfulness — it's 11 on a scale of 10."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In one study, we asked 164 MBA students to read a hypothetical scenario (based on a true story) about an investment banker facing an ethical dilemma, and to estimate the likelihood that this banker would indulge in unethical behavior.

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Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Any company or organization is like a tree. That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation. by Hank Moore. 2 percent).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

sense, it entails a potentially disastrous failure of the imagination, an inability to appreciate all the exigencies the client confronts in trying to actually get something done, much less changed, within his organization. While this may often be true in a strict I.Q. Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox.

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Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

“After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. So be open to serendipity, in your organization and in your life.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Nine percent of working moms clock more than 50 hours a week during the key years of career advancement: ages 25 to 44. What flexibility means today is not part time," the head of work-life at one large organization told me recently. I''ve been asking lots of people that question lately. Most guess around 50 percent.

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Morale Class Cooper Ethics 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Any company or organization is like a tree. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor.

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