The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Joan’s voice broke with emotion as she talked about her growing health problems and the steep price her family has been paying for her “successful career.” An equally powerful source of energy, one we’ve often neglected or dismissed as unrealistic, is what we might call the ‘purpose motive.’”.

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Simon Motivation Energy Metrics 69

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. At Fortis we help businesses use natural gas more efficiently, save energy and seek innovative energy solutions to save money. Over the long haul, the specialty/expert image is critical to high prices and high margins. Greg Waddell.

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Strategy CEO Marketing Strategy Human Resources 234

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 10, 2011

Whether the CEO is driven by personal ethics, a socially changing world, or headlines praising “sustainable” organizations, business is finally responding to the green trend—albeit slower than many would like to see. But there is a bottleneck and it isn’t the multi-million dollar price tag. Our business should be more sustainable.”

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CEO Productivity Products Company 112

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2009

His purpose: “Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around.&# Seth Godin , marketing guru and thought leader, did a cool project where he brought together more than seventy “big thinkers&# to write the ebook What Matters Now.

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Godin eBook Marketing Ethics 133

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung should infuse some energy into the board which has been under fire for backdating company stock options. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

However, that’s a small price to pay for the positives that are derived. Mentoring is a must, though it takes time and energy many women don’t feel they have. The other side of it is that this, no doubt, gives us the weight of responsibility in modeling workplace behavior.

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Mentor Press Release Discount PR 189

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. The stability of share price is a metric many managers and investors look at when evaluating the "quality" of a firm. Ethics Failure Finance'

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Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Simultaneously, the risk profile of the company can be reduced and potentially share prices can even rise – a win-win. But divestment alone is not the answer.

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Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The key argument for fossil fuel divestment is that the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants are not being accurately priced by the market. Simultaneously, the risk profile of the company can be reduced and potentially share prices can even rise – a win-win. But divestment alone is not the answer.

Finance 8

Finance Cost of Capital Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Kocieniewski describes forklift drivers moving aluminum from warehouse to warehouse in Detroit to profit from rules set by an overseas metals exchange, while delivery times to actual users of aluminum have stretched to 16 months and aluminum prices have been pushed up by the equivalent of a tenth of a U.S. Ethics Finance Global business'

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Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. Unlike Santander, Goldman lost sight of its brand promise.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

Steve Farber

MARCH 25, 2009

To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. And we’ve all spent some amount of time and energy navigating our way through the challenges that come from trying to lead in those conditions. It’s just the price we pay for being managers. And human beings. We’re all human, just like Ken.

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Mentor Advice Bottom-up Crisis 40

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Price Pritchett – Bestselling author of 26 books, which have sold more than 10 million copies, pioneering thought leader on merger integration strategy, corporate culture, innovation and organizational change.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

For example, GE's turn toward manufacturing energy-efficient locomotives was a perfect alignment of values: The market was turning toward ecological solutions, and GE was smart enough to jump on the train early. Suppose doing the right Shared Value thing requires closing plants, raising prices, becoming less competitive, reducing profits?

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

There can be organizational paralysis, or a release of incredible and productive energy, and which of the two happens depends mainly on leadership. Crisis management Ethics Leadership' When culture is challenged in this way, and people start questioning what their organization stands for, things can go either of two ways.

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Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

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. Because we know failure is free, we take chances, and in that effort we often get that one amazing picture that we wouldn’t have if we were paying a price for all the mistakes. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

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. A similar effect can happen when the goal of transparency is not only ethics but also other desired behavior.

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How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Because we know failure is free, we take chances, and in that effort we often get that one amazing picture that we wouldn’t have if we were paying a price for all the mistakes. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Just in the past few months, the Columbia Business Law Review has come out with an entire issue devoted to the topic (based on a symposium held at Columbia last fall), and Edward Elgar has published a 512-page Research Handbook on Insider Trading (list price, $240) edited by UCLA Law Professor (and prolific blogger ) Stephen Bainbridge.

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Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

Andrew Jackson , the seventh President of the United States said, "You must pay the price [to safeguard liberty] if you wish to secure the blessing." If you demonstrate your energy, dedication and ability, advancement will surely follow. No one achieves great things without first paying their dues. Learn to listen, listen to learn.

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Advice Career 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Marx claimed that capitalism would immiserate workers: he meant that labor would be "exploited" — not just in a purely ethical sense, but in a narrower economic one: that real wages would fall, and working conditions would deteriorate. Immiseration. How was Marx doing on this score?

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Crisis Porter Class Globalization 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

For example, developing our PlantBottle innovation — a fully recyclable packaging made of up to 30% renewable plant material — took significant upfront investment but we felt it made good sense, especially with oil prices fluctuating. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work. We have a responsibility to help others.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Core Values: Ethics. by Hank Moore. Professionalism, Quality.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Price is often a deciding factor in buying. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. by Hank Moore.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. (McKinsey responded that it was actually investing more on intellectual capital, but on the industry-specific variety of more use to consultants and clients.) The temptation to look down on clients.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Instead of competing with the, um, competition, employees wasted energy and time competing against one another. A full 30% also said the structure of their compensation plans encouraged law-breaking or ethics violations. Netflix's Lost Year: The Inside Story of the Price-Hike Train Wreck (CNET). 50 SHADES OF I-WANT-IT-TODAY.

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P&L McKinsey Comparison Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Next point?”.

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

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. Many deals were put on the books in order to inflate the price of Enron stock, which the insiders sold at peak price levels. The News Media. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57