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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior.

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Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

Harvard Business Review

Use an evaluation system that links the company’s strategic requirements with the prospects’ individual capacities and performance, with the latter focusing on their integrity and ethics, team building, execution excellence, shareholder return, and personal gravitas—and ability to work in the boardroom.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

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. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided.