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Working as a Prison Guard Convinced Me That Bosses Should Never, Ever Date Subordinates

Harvard Business Review

My first job out of college did little to prepare me for my future career, but it did teach me something about power — and that all companies should adopt a black-and-white policy when it comes to sexual contact between supervisors and their employees. In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. 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. Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

I became him, after a fashion, since I am 65 now. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.