Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. It is about more than the contents of a financial report. Integrity is personal and professional. It bespeaks to every aspect of the way in which we do business. About the Author.

Ethics 51

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. real GDP growth rate for the region, but there is more business risk than many expect.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior.

Management 12

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Vision and leadership.

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Investors who have flooded the cybersecurity market in search for the next software “unicorn” have yet to realize that when it comes to a risk as complex as this one, there is no panacea — certainly not one that depends on technology alone.

Training 9

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every large financial services company has instituted risk management, but that hasn't prevented risky behavior in the form of office politics and personality conflict — as the JP Morgan trading debacle has demonstrated. Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Merchandising 10

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The potential loss Apple would have sustained had it not caved and, in the view of many, compromised human rights interests , was huge — its access to the vast Chinese market for devices, as well as its manufacturing base there.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 58

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Manipulation of energy markets. In his letter to shareholders in this year’s Annual Report, Dimon said that “we are now making our control agenda priority #1.” It is a vexing, complicated task which requires both outstanding leadership and management.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. The marketing–sales relationship now tops the agenda of concerns in a survey of B2B executives.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. And clear reporting in this sphere is so rare that I am aware of only one example. Now back to the subject at hand; reporting. It is around 100.

Airlines 13

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

But despite progress, 41% of workers reported seeing ethical misconduct in the previous 12 months, and 10% felt organizational pressure to compromise ethical standards. Despite saying things like, “I have an open door policy,” some leadership actions may inhibit the courage needed to raise ethical concerns.

Ethics 8

Ethics Compliance Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

JP Morgan’s own report on the matters surrounding the London Whale indicates broad failings. Boards Ethics Leadership' The short phrase “regulatory issues” hardly captures the depth and breadth of major matters JPM agreed to settle in the past two years across a broad array of problems (summarized here ).

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

If you're in Northern California, reports of elevated radiation levels in Sacramento is unsettling, to say the least, especially if you're part of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial revival and just want to move ahead with your social network business. That's my management tip for today. Do you think the world is out to get you?

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And so what I see here is China, vastly bigger than the Philippines and Vietnam, with not only more military capacity, but much more economic capacity and influence over those markets, seeing if they can improve their situation on the ground, and not minding so much if the cost is that a couple of noses get bloodied. China’s number one.”

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Globalization Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

41% of employees falsify records and reports. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. 35% of employees steal from the company.

Budgeting 82

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

This Annual Report issue celebrates the year, as basis for helping business people to prepare for the future. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. They’ve changed more than they wish to acknowledge.

Planning 60

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. It may sound like it’s still a new role to many, but a report from recruiting giant Heidrick & Struggles was heralding the rise of the title eight years ago.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. For example, application of complex financial accounting rule — FAS 133 relating to derivatives — led to expensive restatements in numerous businesses. The most notable was Fannie Mae's $10.8

Finance 8

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8