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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. In the Chinese culture, every crisis is first recognized as a danger signal and always as an opportunity for overcoming obstacles. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable.

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Directors Need to Care About Culture

In the CEO Afterlife

Other than ensuring an ethical environment in the organizations they govern, I suspect today’s Boards still don’t give culture the attention it deserves. Like most Boards, they were more interested in hearing about profit, financial ratios, efficiencies, headcounts, labor climate and strategic initiatives.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. About the Author.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

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. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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The Big Picture of Business – Biggest Excuses They Use… and You Should Avoid: Rationales and Reasons Why Businesses Fail

Strategy Driven

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Once the PR crisis passes, things will get back to normal. Our human resources department takes care of that. We’re too worried about __ (some item in the news… the latest source of gossip). Interest rates are too high. Until then, it’s business as usual.

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Good Brands Gone Bad | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Whether self-created or a swipe from the blind side, crisis recovery can be elusive. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike. Human Resources. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist. Leadership.

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