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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. But that’s not the only thing rotten about that culture. That’s what Wells Fargo did.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” , has shown how the way we frame such challenges shapes our reasoning and priorities much more than most of us recognize.

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