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DECEMBER 31, 2016

McGill Professor @profkjmoore takes you inside his CEO class. Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone by @JesseLynStoner. What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career (Part One) by @scott_mautz. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Do you make these common leadership mistakes?

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 24, 2012

My good friend and work-ethic expert, Eric Chester , (author of the fantastic Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce ) recently shared with me his perspective on the relationship between passion and work. Please read his words and comment away!

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 1, 2011

I am creating a Leadership Development class for Japanese students of business English. Do you have any other suggestions for a Leadership Development class? Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Business Rules , Clients , Filmmaking , Pixar { 1 trackback } My soup 01.02.11 at 3:17 PM I love this. Is that OK? Unported License.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 6, 2011

He was speaking to the entire male freshman class (the ladies were in another room in a similar talk with the Dean of Women — boy would I have liked to have been a fly on that wall!). I think it gives you a solid world-view that tempers your expectations, avoids disappointment, and permits development of realistic goals.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. I’ve found great success in developing programs like our year-long Leadership Academy for middle managers or our six-month program called Employee 100 for front-line staff. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. I’ve found great success in developing programs like our year-long Leadership Academy for middle managers or our six-month program called Employee 100 for front-line staff. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 65

Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

Selingo has distilled a lot of wisdom into five often overlapping skills needed to succeed in your career and life. You see these concepts are appearing more and more in leadership development studies as well.) The recent graduates who succeed in their careers are flexible about how they learn. They can think on their feet.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 24, 2024

A well-drafted employment termination letter can steer clear of misunderstandings and protect the organization in cases of disputes, especially when parting ways with employees from protected classes. This is why developing your own sample termination letters and getting it approved by a few different stakeholders is a good idea.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? The results are in: what does the CMI community think?

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2011

In college, I took a communications course which made me stand up and give presentations each week to the class. Most people developed very serious talks. I spoke about how he helped me learn to read (comics) and gave me a basic ethical structure in relation to crime. I present to audiences all over the world. I chose Batman.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. I’ve found great success in developing programs like our year-long Leadership Academy for middle managers or our six-month program called Employee 100 for front-line staff. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Conduct classes in cake decorating, flower arranging, jewelry-making, gardening, automobile maintenance, carpentry, photography, or whatever your expertise happens to be. Teach a class at a local community college, or hook up with a business that can use your classes to increase sales.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. I’ve found great success in developing programs like our year-long Leadership Academy for middle managers or our six-month program called Employee 100 for front-line staff. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 85

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

When Alan Greenspan addressed the Harvard University class of 1999 , he shared a message of wealth and prosperity that was reflected in many aspects of American life. ” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career. What might you have expected the future to hold?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Way back in 1793 women could not hold patents so she passed the concept to Eli Whitney who got all the fame and glory. Now think about the women close to you.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

Show up as the leader and develop leaders within. Fun is the element that allows people to make it through the difficult tasks and overwhelming deadlines, and the best leaders know how to make it work without compromising the team’s work ethic or commitment to excellence. Make sure that what you say is congruent with what you do.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Specifically, the state is pinning its hopes on small business, with a portion of federal R&D funds “set aside for small business to develop and commercialize innovative technology.&#

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

To prove her commitment to what she calls the ‘lifestyle component’ of her business, her employees participate in a weekly yoga class at the office. She believes there is more to her company than money.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2012

To jog their memories, I told a story about unfairness when a boy in my elementary school class was yelled at when I was the one “sneaking” in front of him in line. This gal was an assistant in an after school gymnastics class. The teacher was absent for three weeks due to illness and she led the class alone.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

I was in my junior year of undergraduate school and I was thinking about going to law school when a professor asked me to be his teaching assistant in a communications class. As Beverly climbed the ladder of career success she has seen the challenges mount. “I He is still a mentor and advisor to me.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

While IBM would always fire employees for ethical violations, almost no one was fired because of poor performance. If you wore a white shirt, showed up, and met minimal expectations, you had a job for your entire career. There has also been a marked decline in midlevel work - a "hollowing-out" of the middle class.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Take a class, attend a seminar, learn a new skill or volunteer for a favorite cause. Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. Keep connections that challenge you, and help morph you into the “rock star” of your business and not just the “groupie.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. A company could have a terrific ethics policy, but actions speak louder than words on paper. Picture this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. In addition to networking their way into new professional circles and learning new cultural mores, veterans have to face down the even more fundamental questions: what career will best suit them?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

When the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak. Nine months after graduation, only 56% of the class of 2010 had found a job. These early career experiences appear to have lasting negative consequences for later career success.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. This requires many years of commitment to learning, compounded by the continuous development of knowledge. Personal Development. Developing a Body of Work-Knowledge. Teaching-Training.

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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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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The teachers loved to have him in class. When Richard was old enough to work, his folks made him get a job after school to instill a strong work ethic and help him learn the value of money. His parents thought that getting a paycheck would help him develop independence, and he wouldn’t have to “beg” every time he wanted something.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to talk with a class of second year MBA’s, and one of the most outstanding questions students raised was whether they should take jobs with companies that they considered to be socially irresponsible. But thinking about it explicitly is well worth doing at any stage of your career.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? These critiques have brought about some change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. A world-class leader must be able to hire and develop an exceptionally strong leadership team—he/she cannot succeed as a brilliant one-person player,” one asserted. Another said that today’s executive must be “more interested and skilled in developing his/her team, less self-oriented.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2012

For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. There's little doubt that the American middle class—the 40% of households with annual incomes between $50,000 and $140,000 a year—is in distress. Census Bureau.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Throughout the May and June rituals of Class Day celebrations and graduation ceremonies, successful members of older generations will urge this year’s crop of Millennials to pursue their dreams and, by extension, travel the same path they did.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

They assure that the firm’s legal and ethical practices allow for overseas flexibility while maintaining corporate compliance by: Benchmarking competitive practices in country to ensure willingness to compete. The tool consists of 28 statements, four for each of the seven ‘tudes.

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