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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. Picture this. Your first assignment is to land an oil field services contract abroad. billion in inflated profits.

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Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work

Harvard Business Review

He started developing his famous case against bond insurer MBIA in 2002, and had to wait till 2009 for it to pay off. It is of course a bit disturbing to see that five years is now considered the "long term."

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Black History Month: Inspiration Women Leaders Who Changed the World

HR Digest

Wells saw lynching as a violent form of subjugation — “an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and ‘the n *r down,'” Wells also organized economic boycotts long before the tactic was popularized by other civil rights activists, who are often credited with its success.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. In the 1980s, Bridgestone Tire Company purchased Firestone. by Hank Moore. Running the business.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. It is about getting the result the client wants. Here is my bottom line take. The coaching and mentoring industry is spending a lot of time talking to each other.

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