Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2017

They participate in campus life but too often from the sidelines, so they lack and deep engagement in activities that provide much needed skills for the job market. Selingo notes that too many undergraduates want to be spoon-fed. They sit back and wait for professors to deliver lessons in the classroom. Enterprise is not alone.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

The goal is to get a response from 1,500 women over the next 90 days. Following are the simple instructions to participate: Please complete the questionnaire when you have 10 minutes of uninterrupted time. All participants who provide an email address will receive synopsis of what women are saying, at the end of the project.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. Essentially, they serve as the guiding light, steering the organization toward its goals and objectives.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 7, 2011

I explained my reason for the three words – to give us a focus at a level above goals – that would guide our conversations, decisions, and actions. We are in the process of forming a new team and want a strong team ethic and identity towards our key stakeholders. We at the Kevin Eikenberry Group do that too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 8, 2009

“The CAP initiative resets the silent problem, resets the questions, and begins to reset the behaviors and actions of the participants.&# The power of influence: The goal of a CAP initiative is to influence. Allow anger — avoid fear: Fear leads people to avoidance.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Black professionals do not just participate in African American community events. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. Realistically attainable goals. It opens your services to additional market niches. It makes good business sense.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Younger workers bring with them a new ethic of openness, participation, and interactivity and cannot imagine a life without Google and Facebook always within reach. Companies must customize relationships with customers, suppliers and others, detecting and responding to market and environmental shifts.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Communicators and marketers can now adopt a personalized approach to their work, ideally one based on behavioral science. But the execution lags behind the science while the claims of some marketers as to what personality marketing can do far exceed it. We believe that includes personality marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Conceptualize your own personal goals. Understand conflicting societal goals. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Re-involving those who have given, volunteered and participated in the past. Fit your dreams into the necessities and realities of the real world.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Catch up here. Don’t miss out!

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others. Recognition programs help meet that need as well as generate behavior in alignment with organizational goals and standards. 9) Customer and market focus. No excuses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Companies can take a wide variety of approaches to how to discuss ethics. At one end of the spectrum are companies that rely on their code of ethics or on the exemplary behavior of people at the top. Still, this leaves open the question of what actually works in guiding employees' ethical behavior. Setting the right example.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I bring this up today as it is currently the time of year when we are fired with resolutions, goals, plans…. For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate. Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Setting goals that are too low. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2016

Writing, speaking, negotiating, tweeting, or marketing requires excellent communication skills and is a tremendous asset to any company. Are you asking meaningful questions about the company and its long-term goals, or are you focused on your short-term needs? Are you self-aware or self-absorbed?

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Rajesh Setty

MARCH 19, 2013

For example: • Charles Schwab disrupted the brokerage industry in the 1970-80s using a business model driven by Principles of high ethics, no conflicts of interest, being trustworthy, and helping everyone become financially fit. Any one or two of these factors can be the driving force(s) for the business model.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

The sticky issue of ethics, of the responsibility business leaders have to "do the right thing.". Some schools took the perspective that values are the same as ethics. The trouble is that increasing people's awareness of ethical issues may not be enough to produce more ethical leaders, or guarantee ethical behavior.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. After ensuring that there were no significant differences in company or participant characteristics between the groups, we compared respondents’ capabilities across the seven ‘tudes.

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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

JULY 29, 2014

According to a multitude of critics, the companies stepped over an ethical line by playing with emotions without asking users’ permission. True, both companies were manipulating users’ emotions, but people don’t seem to mind the daily emotional manipulation that companies engage in every day through marketing and product design.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

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. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The goal, says Eric Ries of The Lean Startup fame, is to create a minimum viable product that you’ll fully expect to iterate over time. financial markets and mentioned his indictment — and subsequent exoneration — during the crisis, I received an angry note from his wife: why did you have to include that ? Own your failure narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch. Big mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Clearly, web scraping has ethical and legal implications, particularly when firms request applicants’ social media passwords as part of the vetting process. Participants solve puzzles or complete challenges to earn points and badges. The goal of enhancing user experience like this is to increase response rates.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch. Big mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. Out of 4,000 applicants per year, only 100 are chosen.)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. Foremost among these is the Becoming a Changemaker course at Berkeley Haas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Margolis, report on a series of online experiments in which they asked participants to ponder such hypothetical dilemmas as whether to hire the (not very qualified) son of an important personage for an internship. 1 challenge that gets in the way of women''s work participation." Ethics Managing yourself' What do I do now?".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

” The best employers help us each achieve our personal “me” goals and dreams on the one hand, while simultaneously collaborating with us to solve more generalized “we” worries about the economy, the environment, the world on the other hand. Responsibility—Behave fairly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals.

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