Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Aisle Three: Backpacks: Guy Harris presents One Way to Head Off a Conflict: Manage Expectations posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "As leaders, we can decrease the emotional reaction people may have in uncomfortable situations by giving them information and clarifying expectations." Where would you like to be?"

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. For example, compensation tied solely to landing a contract invites abuse of the system. A company could have a terrific ethics policy, but actions speak louder than words on paper.

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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? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. Businesses with a commitment to hiring former service men and women are attending career fairs dedicated to veterans and building talent communities for veteran candidates.

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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. On one occasion, the company sent a civil engineer to the top of a 500-foot cooling tower to do a walkdown. They’d typically ask: “Why are you here?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

This should have been the apex of Mike's young career. This is a guaranteed delivery system. At Northrop Grumman, CEO Kent Kresa and his leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The unrestricted use of ChatGPT at work, however, can bring about a lot of ethical and safety concerns along with unexpected legal concerns for the company. Regardless of industry, ChatGPT is finding room for itself in many a career. This was found to be only a little higher than millennials at 63 percent and Gen X at 57 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

James Wilson debunks the widespread misconception that AI systems will replace humans in one industry after another. Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. What does that mean for the supply chain workforce? Remove the robot from the human.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2018

But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. While there is no well-defined career path for data scientists, and little support for junior data scientists, we are starting to see some forms of specialization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. This requires a ‘change-agent’ executive,” he noted, “motivated by a continuous-improvement mindset, a sense of always upgrading organizations, building better processes and systems, improving commercial relationships, increasing market share, and developing leadership.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). Let this selfish creature fight it out in a macroeconomic model based on the circulatory system. So what makes modern capitalism work is not so much the accumulation of capital as its constant flow through the system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In a recent article in the journal Environmental Systems and Decisions , a group of risk management experts dissect how Venice responded to the Black Death in the 1400s. In the past, Ellison has been quoted as saying that the island feels to him like “this really cool 21st-century engineering project.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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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

JULY 9, 2012

You should be spending at least 1,000 hours a year--that's about six hours a week; about an hour a day — preparing for a new career (Just in case that your industry goes the way of publishing, pay phones, photo finishing and the like and either disappears or radically changes to the point where there is no room for you.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Problem of Social Cost," Coase once told me, was the reason he spent his career not in an economics department or a business school but at the University of Chicago School of Law. If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. So, yes, his death struck me as sudden. I picked Prof.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

A recent survey by Career Builder reports more than two-thirds of employers were affected by a bad hire last year, according to AOL Jobs. We always sought individuals with high character strengths and strong work ethics. Later on, we may also move to an actual scoring system as well. The costs of a bad hire are staggering.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

They can reverse-engineer your processes. From the beginning, he vowed to consider only the strongest candidates to join him: people with double degrees from top schools, international experience, high emotional intelligence, and remarkable career trajectories. They can hire away some of your best people.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

If the next generation is to use AI and big data effectively – if they’re to understand their inherent limitations, and build even better platforms and intelligent systems — we need to prepare them now. Ethics also deserves more attention at every educational level. But it’s clearly not magic.

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