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Leadership Lessons from the Banking Upheaval

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. New CEO Antony Jenkins has set out an ethical vision for the bank, assessing performance “not just on what we deliver but on how we deliver it.” Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business.

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. That is the question. but to focus on compensation strategy that builds on performance.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. In his letter to shareholders in this year’s Annual Report, Dimon said that “we are now making our control agenda priority #1.” on actual outlays and $2.5B

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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The Economics of Why Companies Don’t Fix Their Toxic Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. A firm’s cultural capital is a type of asset that impacts what a firm produces and how it operates. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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If You're Not Pissing Someone Off, You're Probably Not Innovating

Harvard Business Review

A lot of letters started pouring in to the chairman of the board of Pillsbury," Cohen recalls, "and some major articles appeared. Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. For folks who are looking for operational principles, take these from Lisa Gansky's fabulous book, The Mesh.

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Why Bankers Need to Be Put Into Little Boxes

Harvard Business Review

Wilmers' most recent letter includes a long discourse on regulatory reform that has already been recommended by Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting and lauded in Joe Nocera's New York Times column. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. where he is CEO.

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