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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

Risk-averse approach The researchers analyzed financial data from over 200 companies that were included in the Forbes 500 list between 2014 and 2017. The study validated the integrity measurement by comparing it with companies ranked as the most ethical by independent observers like Forbes and found a high correlation between the two.

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The Advisor’s Corner – Can Ethics Be Learned?

Strategy Driven

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

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The Advisor’s Corner – How Do I Build Ownership?

Strategy Driven

The StrategyDriven website was created to provide members of our community with insights to the actions that help create the shared vision, focus, and commitment needed to improve organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior results. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Lead Like it Matters… Because it Does, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

We want them to be loyal, grateful, ethical, engaged, and kind to the people they work with and for. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Emotions are contagious; we catch flyby emotions more quickly than we catch a cold. The idea that we can keep emotions out of the workplace is a lot of bunk. All rights reserved.

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The Advisor’s Corner – Can I Afford a Bad Hire?

Strategy Driven

Whatever methods (legal and ethical of course) you use, you need to discover at least these SIX key things about your candidates BEFORE you hire. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. We keep getting the same lousy results and yet we have not substantively changed the hiring practices in most organizations.

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Research: Firms Give More Stock Options When They’re Committing Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Since this program was established, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted more than $111 million in awards to 34 whistleblowers, with the largest award of $30 million granted in September 2014.

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Attention Leaders: Five Attitudes to Take to work in 2014

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m posting it again because well, I think it continues to be relevant in 2014. However, if you have something that would make the workplace of 2014 much better, attitude-wise, I encourage you to share it. For instance, legal and ethical boundaries are permanent fixtures in any reputable company and must be strongly enforced.