Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Throughout the year employees nominate each other for five award categories: leadership, quality improvement, innovation, community involvement, etc. UPCOMING EVENTS AND CLASSES. Join us for this 60-minute webinar where you and your colleagues will discover: Strategies to Boost Morale and Work Ethic Among the Front-Line Staff.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Business managers are missing the real issue: the people who collect, store, manage and process our data are not being held to any ethical standards. The emerging data science discipline is expanding so fast that few workers are thinking about the ethical implications of their everyday actions. So what can be done?

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Ethics Software Engineering Technology 8

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. These efforts have been driven by a strong desire to ensure that the technologies function in a way that benefits society rather than harms it.

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Bond Technology Engineering Constraint 64

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Over the course of 2009, I (Michael) met with and interviewed Admiral Clark and several of the Naval officers who reported to him.

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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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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Equating "innovative" with new molecules misses the point: to develop clinically superior new medicines. The apparent business model of Big Pharma emphasizes the billions spent at great risk to find "innovative" and "breakthrough" new molecules that must be priced high to recover research costs that have become "unsustainable."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Most business schools have introduced mandatory ethics courses and revamped curricula to incorporate concerns about personal principles and social responsibility. Join communities that pressure, guide and support them long after classes break. These critiques have brought about some change. But is that enough? Let me be clear.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Without mapping a course, how can any organization reach a destination? In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Faster innovation. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

A Leader’s Insights In “ Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love ”, Richard Sheridan, cofounder and CEO of software design firm Menlo Innovations, delineates the practical steps he has taken to create and maintain a corporate culture that makes people “excited to come to work every day.” But the fictional company doesn’t stop there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And of course, online shopping is the other big trend that started at the turn of the century. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl? The goal is to attract the British middle classes, and it appears to be working.

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LDRLB

MARCH 10, 2014

People are doers and they’re doing things and then all of a sudden, they’re managing and they think that what they should do is just organize and coordinate and tell people to do what they used to do, and of course, that only gets you so far. It’s all about who are you? This is the story we need to tie our cause to, etc.

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Drucker Books Learning-by-Doing Leadership 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Rising inequality and lack of economic opportunity for the middle class was a major theme. ” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. Inequality and Economic Mobility. Health Care Costs.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We need to respond urgently, and the choices before us range from dramatic course correction on one extreme, to facing "overshoot-and-collapse" on the other. Over the past few decades, countless approaches to course correction have been advanced. The Heart of the Problem.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

When your work requires you to use your genius it’s not only more fun but you’ll naturally be motivated to deliver great work, you’ll naturally continue to evolve and grow and innovate, and you’’ll naturally be of service and find others are seeking you out for greater opportunities. Self-assuredness.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth. One rarely advances more than one rung on the ladder during the course of service to the organization unless he/she embodies that wider scope.

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Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

And, of course, Marissa Mayer eliminated telecommuting at Yahoo! For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred. This ideal has roots in the 17th century Protestant work ethic, in which work was viewed as a "calling" to serve God and society.

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Morale Class Cooper Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Of course, the difference between price discrimination and discrimination positively correlated with gender, ethnicity, geography, class, personality and/or technological fluency is vanishingly small. to innovatively, cost-effectively and profitably segment/discriminate their customers and clients.

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Merchandising Media Price Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

The founder and former CEO and Chairman of Lululemon Atheltica is, in point of fact, a highly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, innovator, and self-made billionaire. It was, of course, horribly offensive – but was it Chip Wilson’s intention to be offensive? Idiots are very rarely any of those things.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 22, 2019

Of course any such report inevitably includes a large dose of generalization, as automation is likely to apply differently in different industries, and indeed other reports have examined the potential impact of automation in different regions, skill levels and even classes.

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McKinsey Technology Ethics Report 72