The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Today we’ll take a break from Busting Your Corporate Idol for this timely guest post from Omer Soker, Founder of The Ethics Of Success. . These managers purport to self-interest, but they are harming everyone including the company itself by operating outside of shared values.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Mobilizing followers while having credibility and commitment and creating job satisfaction, meaning and purpose for others is really the essence of transformational leadership. People high on this are also highly committed, whether that be to an organization or a cause, or of course both. As such it is a highly desirable attribute.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

It takes a tremendous amount of time, energy, and expense to bring new people into the organization and ramp them up to full productivity, so it’s in everyone’s vested interest to see an employee succeed.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

Far too many companies are churning out traditional sales lingo laced with fluff and vague, or entirely overinflated, claims, spending paltry little time and energy establishing credibility with prospective customers. This asks that we operate with openness, clear communication and accountability. Transparency Translates.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Gentile has spent a great deal of her life in the classrooms of Harvard Business School and Babson College and from reading her book it seems that she thinks if her students know what ethical decision-making is, they will take action on what they think is right. Values often influence people's choices about where to invest their energies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

He's director of the Task Force for Business & Stability Operations , which is giving Afghans a new sense of possibility, with the end goal of building businesses. The key to unleashing that creative energy is to create an entrepreneurial culture based on the following four pillars: Authenticity. Commitment to People.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. Of course not. The totality of a company's actions does matter.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

As for “good,” we usually reference morality, virtue, and ethics — “a good person” or “a good decision.” The tension between them galvanizes will and commitment, tacks recurring debate about what great and good mean, and gives rise to a critical and creative climate that fuels progress.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Hire people who truly love the work they do so they will bring more creativity and energy to their job, your workplace and to your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. How much energy are you consuming? As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. ,

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Leaders rate the importance of maintaining a sterling reputation in the countries in which they operate 10 times higher than do laggards — the greatest variance we found. Local subsidiaries have to operate in ways acceptable to the parent company. Forgoing Short-Term Profits in Favor of Long-Term Reputation. You have to comply.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? We have also committed to economically empowering 5 million women by 2020. Coca-Cola operates in more than 200 countries and the needs of each market depend on a variety of factors. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

As Max Weber might have put it , the President was motivated by an ethic of conviction , doing everything possible to achieve his end goal, which was getting the bill passed. Owens, however, operated out of an ethic of responsibility – the ends were not enough to justify misleading his workers or the press.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The picture that emerges is of leaders who worked hard but were too heads-down and narrowly focused on immediate operational, technical, or functional issues. These were the people who over that previous two years had had missed deadlines, had committed to projects they hadn’t delivered, or had set the bar too low for others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Manipulation of energy markets. Of course, these institutions are always challenging aspects of regulatory regimes and engaging in disputes about future laws. LIBOR rate rigging.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

At Esquel Group, we have been committed to this philosophy over the last three decades and are trying to promote it beyond our corporate boundary. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

The Silicon Valley software ethic of running experiments to fail fast and learn has been a cultural challenge for GE, where failure has been frowned upon. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. ” Integrating with the Mother Ship.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Motivation and commitment. Goals release energy. Commitments must be made to other people. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Achieving goals which one set and to which one commits enhances a person’s sense of adequacy. Portfolio analysis.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Commitment from workers drops because no corporate culture was created or sustained.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

The energy and effort Marshall put into his work led Senator Henry Stimson to say, “I have never seen a task of such magnitude performed by a man.” Another incident shows Marshall’s commitment to openness and honesty. Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. why is everyone smiling?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values benefiting other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization. Motivation and Commitment.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Ethics and integrity. Commitment to persons affected (stakeholders). Relate Articles: The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success. Mature confidence and informed judgment. Courage and leadership. High performance standards. Professional innovation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Motivation and commitment. Goals release energy. Commitments must be made to other people. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Achieving goals which one set and to which one commits enhances a person’s sense of adequacy. Portfolio analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

There's no reason why the head of overseas operations can't also be a mom.". Tom DeHart, the president of Caston's international division, wanted a short-term director of overseas operations, someone who would spend the next 18 to 24 months traveling frequently to Caston's non-U.S. You're a hard worker — focused and committed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? More costly, however, is diverting resources to overcorrect near-term headaches at the expense of the time and energy needed to plan for the long term. It’s not surprising.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. If one is growing from networking and all parties benefit, it works well.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. The way the California energy crisis was handled speaks to Enron’s disdain for media openness. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode.

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