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Let’s Make a Deal: Building a Strong Company Culture is Everyone’s Business

HR Digest

The HR department, acting as the dutiful scribe, would craft a culture based on the CEO’s vision, complete with a glossy mission statement and a sprinkling of core values. Compliance, Risk, and Ethics Department: Ensure alignment between the desired culture and risk management strategies.

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Are You Managing Human Capital or Leading People?

The Practical Leader

CEOs rated their number one issue as “impact on society, including income inequality, diversity, and the environment.” Organizations need to move “beyond mission statement and philanthropy to learn to lead (their emphasis) the social enterprise — and reinvent themselves around a human focus.”

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The Essence of Strategy (Part 2) | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. Thank you for setting the record straight about what a Mission Statement is. My biggest challenge was educating a diverse group of Board members on the value of focused strategies. October 31, 2011 at 10:36 pm.

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How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

Harvard Business Review

Pay close attention to ethics and research a company before joining. Consider a diverse résumé Stigma and stereotypes are most powerful in the absence of other information, so having multiple jobs on your résumé can dilute the impact of a scandal firm.

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The Big Picture of Business: Corporate Communications – Correctly Positioning Your Company

Strategy Driven

As companies adjust comfort levels and acquire confidence in the arena of business development, there is a direct relationship to billings, client mix diversity, market share, competitive advantage, stock price and levels of business which enable other planned growth. Work and abilities of your employees are diverse and creative.

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Yes, Corporations Are People

Harvard Business Review

For example, at RBC, our corporate art collection, The Human Touch , focuses on images of the human figure, in all its diversity, to remind us of that very fact — that we are all about people who serve other people.). Formulate their mission and their purpose in terms of serving others.