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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

Zappos is one example. Trader Joe’s is another example. There are many examples of healthy culture, and unfortunately, many more examples of unhealthy ones. They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior. In any organization, there’s always resistance to change.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity.

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What to Do If Your Boss Asks You to Break the Rules

Harvard Business Review

Do we go along to get along or do we resist? But these tactics fall flat when faced with disputes of an ethical, moral, or legal nature. How might an ethical but job-dependent employee respond to these disputes effectively? How we address such disputes can have serious consequences for our organization and ourselves.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

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. Too much transparency can spark resistance.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.”