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Without Clear Values, You Are Probably Losing Business

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The nice gentleman spraying my son with chemicals was guided by his personal values of courtesy. Don’t wait for senior leadership. If integrity or ethics are important, it needs to be listed. Describing behavioral examples helps people understand what they look like when they are lived.

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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

Let’s use “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building. For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. How endearing is your brand to your customers? This week, we’ll discuss the first two.

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DISC Model FAQ's: Is Changing Your Behavior Phoney?

The Recovering Engineer

As I see it, choosing a behavior, word, or tone that will improve your communication effectiveness is not a moral or ethical issue. For example, most people recognize that appropriate behavior during a wedding ceremony is likely to be different from appropriate behavior at the celebration party after the ceremony.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , featured , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , people-oriented people , perception , task-oriented people , understanding , working with people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

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Leadership Lesson From General McChrystal: Get Onboard or Get Out.

The Recovering Engineer

I am simply observing the outcome of a leadership act: a high level leader who reports to a higher level leader within an organization took his discontent public and he had to leave the organization as a result. I do know what happened, and I believe it demonstrates a valuable leadership lesson: Disagree in private and agree in public.

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Good Brands Gone Bad | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Leadership. by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. Unlike BP, who mismanaged an accident, Halliburton and Monsanto self-inflicted the ethical decline of their brand image over many years. I’ll wrap up with an example of a brand and a category suffering the same fate as Brylcreem.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

You don’t have to look far for examples of political spending gone awry. Chevron is another example. Making these decisions requires that directors have expertise, exercise informed judgment, and be guided by an ethical compass. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.