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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If you are creating a technology empire, you will need a customer care department.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Gennard and Judge (2002) state, “Employee relations is a study of the rules, regulations, and agreements by which employees are managed both as individuals and as a collective group, the priority given to the individual as opposed to the collective relationship varying from company to company depending upon the values of management.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Coaching Tip

Communications technology is breaking down national barriers and undermining rulers, while the youth look to new role models. As the Arab Spring swept the Middle East, old ways began to disappear. Instead of the litany of Arab political failures, they look to business and the arts for inspiration.

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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. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles. Mayer, James H.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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We Can’t Always Control What Makes Us Successful

Harvard Business Review

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. The field of psychology has long thought about the ethical issues and moral consequences of their tests. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' A Predictive Analytics Primer.