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A different kind of thanks. Yours.

Strategy Driven

Thank yourself for your success, your good fortune, your health, your family, your library, your attitude, your fun times, your friends, and all the cool things you do that make you a happy person. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. HERE’S AN IDEA: Why not start by thanking yourself? Tough list, eh?).

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

Harvard Business Review

I had applied for jobs largely at random and soon found myself working in the library of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent. For the employee, a transfer can be interpreted as a punishment since the manager is the one who is obliged to act ethically in this situation.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations

Harvard Business Review

From the New York Public Library. We might look to Sir Richard Branson, who in 2013 co-launched the “B Team,” publicly decrying corporations’ sole focus on short-term profits and calling for a reprioritization of people- and planet-focused performance. The landscape of American corporations is changing.