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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival. The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Legal compliance and precautions plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Maintains active crisis preparedness and prevention program.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

The bank proudly held itself apart from its New York–based peers after the financial crisis and regularly touted its “ culture of caring.” Wells Fargo leaders also seem to be blind to the significance of this crisis — both for consumers and for its own culture. ” Deterrents to speaking up. Why risk it?

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

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. Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. And will the intensity and focus of top management remain in 12 or 18 months when the current crisis has passed?

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how he defined it: Culture relates to the implicit norms that guide behavior in the absence of regulations or compliance rules—and sometimes despite those explicit restraints. This kind of interdependence has the potential to move the focus back to ethical standards of behavior instead of just legal ones. I now have a Ph.D.

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

This is a big deal, and for much more than the legal/compliance reasons discussed in the piece. Ethics Finance Government' The other smoking gun is that Segarra pushed for a tough Fed line on Goldman’s lack of a substantive conflict of interest policy, and was rebuffed by her boss. This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs? All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. In one word: No.