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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. An example of a CEO setting the wrong tone and culture is Travis Kalanick, the founder and former CEO of Uber. You share some tactics for dealing with a toxic boss.

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The Advisor’s Corner – Can Ethics Be Learned?

Strategy Driven

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If all enterprises had socially acceptable values and based all behavior on those values, how would that have changed the outcomes of things like, for example, Enron Corporation, Bernard L. These are some examples of why I think values and their purpose is essential to any discussion of vision and mission. Vision never drives mission.

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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Those who excelled at every assignment given and each stage of their career. Never were too busy to set good examples, share ideas with others and help build the teams on which they played.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

This is just one example of pressures that unfortunately are all too common in business. 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.

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Research: Simple Prompts Can Get Women to Negotiate More Like Men, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

As a young professor at the University of Washington, for example, I realized I was taking a passive approach to career advancement, waiting for promotions to come to me rather than asserting myself to create opportunity. Toward More Ethical Negotiations. Lies in the Lab.

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Connecting with the 'Overqualified' Job Candidate: Why the Highly.

Strategy Driven

The article points out that ‘overqualified’ candidates tend to show a better work ethic, stay, on average, longer than less qualified candidates, and as long as they are empowered are actually happy workers. Even if a person was downsized, maybe she was burned out on what she was doing and wants to jump-start a new career.

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