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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

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. One of the things we preach in the book is for leaders to be more “long-term greedy.” All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Political analyst George Lakoff, notably in his book Don’t Think of an Elephant! , Firms like these have created tools like Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L) statements and Social Return on Investment (SROI) to capture a more complete picture of their businesses. The Moral Frame.

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