In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I had been asked to participate as one of three judges at a speech competition at a local school. Diversity is said to be the world’s engine of enlightenment. Their teacher had instilled a powerful ethic within them; those who prepare, succeed. The notion of this particular post went beyond business leadership.

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ReImagine Work

MARCH 27, 2016

” In fact in this case it even implies, “I expect you are serious, talented students who want to participate in a way that benefits everyone.” He engaged some of the highest level (and most bullying) participants to help him set a different tone for this group. Appeal to their most noble motives.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The team helps further define the vision and participates in setting goals. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. Employees trust and want to work for an organization with high ethical standards, and work for a leader who lives by those standards.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. It demands that technology moves on from being seen as a passive participant in our life towards one where they’re an active player with their own behavioral characteristics.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Its CEOs, formerly Ralph Larsen and now Bill Weldon, and top executive team regularly participate in a variety of leadership-building activities. His leadership team reversed the company’s poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround – ultimately becoming the Forbes’ most-admired company.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

Its CEOs, formerly Ralph Larsen and now Bill Weldon, and top executive team regularly participate in various leadership-building activities. His leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

While top managers take the fall for these scandals, none of the dubious activities could have happened without the active participation of technical teams. Business managers are missing the real issue: the people who collect, store, manage and process our data are not being held to any ethical standards. So what can be done?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

Its top executive team regularly participate in a variety of leadership-building activities. At Northrop Grumman, CEO Kent Kresa and his leadership team reversed the company's poor image and engineered an amazing turnaround. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

But what are the ethical lines this paid-for content should not cross? The public relations and communications company Edelman definitely has a horse in this race, but it has issued a useful paper on the relationship of paid content and journalism, which ends with "An Ethical Framework" that makes some unexpected points.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. I then asked participants either “What should you do?” ” or “What could you do?” We told some of them to build novel products.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. For example, Mauricio started as an engineer in his manufacturing firm, moved up the ranks, and 10 years later was promoted to president of European operations. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. Declare your intention and go.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

To get serious results from a network, you need commitment and a continuity of relationships among the participants. Participants tend to belong for individualistic reasons. Network members readily participated in focus groups and collaborated with Gilbert’s group to develop new programs and store designs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We said that we were looking for hard-working individuals with a high school diploma, whom we could train on all the hard skills necessary to become a software engineer and then hire as paid apprentices. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) Clearly, web scraping has ethical and legal implications, particularly when firms request applicants’ social media passwords as part of the vetting process.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Their advice can be invaluable. Research prospects and contacts. Be willing to be scattered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Coupled with mechanical models, this has resulted in an engineering management mindset, in which people are inevitably seen as instruments for another’s purpose, rather than as ends in themselves. And people can be passionate participants as well as (occasionally) detached observers; it’s “both…and”, not “either/or”.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists and data engineers or enroll their employees in our corporate training programs. Even seemingly harmless experiments may carry ethical or social implications with real financial consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In the course of an independent study during my third year of law school at Chicago, I came across an interesting experiment going on at nearby Motorola, which had built software to "engineer" complex contracts. If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. I arranged a visit to meet with Motorola''s contracts team.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Brown-Nosers are earnest, dutiful, conscientious, and loyal employees who will do whatever their leaders ask them to do.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. When all departments are consulted and participate in the decisions, then the company is empowered. Repairing ethically wrong actions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last weekend, Google was exposed by engineers from Twitter, Facebook, and mySpace for interfering with their search results. They'd never opted into a program that examined their purchase history, they didn't want to participate, and they were certain they were more than capable of handling their own medication management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

If money is in a basic sense a currency in which the fruits of enterprise past are safely kept, to seed the soil of prosperity tomorrow — and if the value of that money itself is corrupted — can one be said to be a participant in "an economy"?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And many activists have given up on governments and are focusing instead on companies as the main engine of social change. For customers to participate in a boycott they must passionately care about an issue. The cost of participation must be low. Smart activists make it easy for customers to participate in a boycott.

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