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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. If the leader is slack, lacks work ethic, or is slow to decide, they have given tacit permission to their team to be and do the same. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Outcome, not task.

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The Leadership Blind Spots at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business Review

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. ” Creating organizational cultures and policies that recognize these sacrifices is crucial.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. “I must have been projecting more sternness than I knew I was capable of,” she told us. ” Creating organizational cultures and policies that recognize these sacrifices is crucial.

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

Harvard Business Review

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. 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.”

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

One resulting project was ‘KFC Kalendar,’ an advertising campaign that showcased community events and public service announcements to diverse communities. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.). ” Song by Connie Francis.

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Managing Vacations When Your Team Is Global

Harvard Business Review

In a culture with a strong work ethic, some worry that checking out will make them appear lazy. Those who do take vacation know to seek approval well in advance, and are expected take the initiative to communicate and responsibly plan their time off around existing projects. Many in the U.S. guarantees a total of zero.