Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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Ethics Marketing Brand Morale 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

They’ve refined the buying process so far that they have precluded the words ‘quality’ and ‘value’ from the buying process AND they have taken the words productivity, ease of use, and morale out of the delivery process. The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. Nor, for the most part, do they care.

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Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

They’re internal actions that build trust, earn respect, and create a team of inspired people – inspired to be productive and do their best… Great leaders are value providers, not order givers. 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.

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360-Degree Feedback Leadership Open-book Customer Loyalty 75

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! She says, “As our work becomes more complex, so do our ethical dilemmas.” As a bonus, Jennifer includes an infographic of a 2013 survey by The Institute for Corporate Productivity that demonstrates how critical of an issue change is for today’s organizations.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 205

Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

The greatest untapped source of motivation, he argues, is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other peoples’ lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves. Sources: The New York Times Magazine, March 31, 2013 and www.LawofReciprocity.com. Grant Ph.D.:

Social Capital 139

Social Capital Cialdini Mentor Incentives 139

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2. Peter Chee – CEO ITD World (China), author, top coach in Asia.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2014

List grateful acts of 2013. My list of things to do between now and the New Year should keep you busy, productive, and inspired to achieve more this year than you did last year. Celebrate family and plan a few celebrations. August in Paris! Getting to know my family below the surface. My brother’s continued hearing recovery.

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Customer Loyalty Document Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2013

You speak the truth, have high ethical standards, and are known for service. Here are a few more critical elements of Smart Selling: Product smart. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This means you take long-term oriented actions. Actions that will stand the test of time. Take responsibility. Customer smart.

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Open-book Definition Self-aware Price 50

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 5, 2013

So, with that in mind, here are five attitudes that I think will be necessary for business leaders to take, in achieving success in 2013 and beyond: Attitude # 1: Diversity is not a black and white subject ~ There are a myriad of distinctions between human beings. And, what better time to do it than at the beginning of a New Year?

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Diversity Construction Webinar Environment 88

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

The study found that when we learn what our peers are earning, we appear to become less productive, especially if it transpires that our colleagues are earning more than we think they should be. If anything, you become more productive.”. They then monitored the work habits after they were actually given the information.

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Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 109

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. But selvesware devoted to greater productivity at the expense of mindfulness and mental health can’t sustainably succeed.

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Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Eventually, the store expanded to become a nationwide supermarket chain specializing in natural and organic products. Whole Foods also supports humane methods of meat and poultry production and in 2000, it introduced the first ecologically certified seafood carrying the Marine Stewardship Council's "Fish Forever" label.

Ethics 8

Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. The best references come from people who know you, your character, and your work product extremely well. I’d encourage you to reach out to someone who knows your work style/product/ethic better.

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Reference Letter Real Estate Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

— actually lead to more-productive employees and companies? growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. She points out that customers visit Lululemon''s web site to learn about products, not to read about financial or corporate news. Ethical Quandaries. Matthew Shaer takes a hard look at this question.

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Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. You would consider first whether you could offer a distinct product to each individual customer that perfectly matches his or her unique preferences.

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Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine. 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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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” 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.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

This data is both financial (revenues, profits, growth) and non-financial (customer sentiment, employee engagement, marketing effectiveness, product feedback, and partner ecosystems). These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. In fact, it is doubling every 14 months and it will reach 10.5 ZB by 2020.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 28, 2013

I wrote this post last year in contemplation of the beginning of 2013. This attitude can help to reduce the confusion that comes from unclear messages and increase potential for greater overall productivity. For instance, legal and ethical boundaries are permanent fixtures in any reputable company and must be strongly enforced.

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Diversity Construction Webinar Environment 97

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Care for the industry, the product and the process (a defined Vision). Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The right settings in which to showcase the product. Stated, refined strategies for the winery to remain in business, producing a quality product and maintaining clientele appreciation.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Meetings commenced at headquarters about the future direction of the company and the product. 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. Colonel Sanders died in 1979.

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Ready… Set… Be productive.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Part of this story relates to the provenance, or origins, of its products: Chains that provide more upmarket “fast casual” dining such as Panera, Chipotle, and Shake Shack have brands that speak of freshness, health, and trustworthy sourcing. Question: What does an ethical shirt factory look like? Answer: Appalling.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Lead on Purpose

JULY 13, 2013

Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values , Dartmouth College. A member of Dartmouth’s Religion Department since 1969, Professor Green served from 1992-2011 as director of Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Brown University and received his PhD in religious ethics from Harvard in 1973.

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Ethics Politics Morale Books 155

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In a culture with a strong work ethic, some worry that checking out will make them appear lazy. In the 2013 study No Vacation Nation , the Center for Economic and Policy Research examined paid leave and paid holidays in OECD nations. A key step is to understand how different cultures perceive vacation time. Many in the U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Team Management Absenteeism 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page.

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PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

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. So why do certain firms (and not others) choose to identify as B Corporations?

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Company Hedge Short-term Long-term 8