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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Drawing inspiration from metaphorical applications of guerrilla warfare and coup d’état strategies, this paper proposes a series of approaches to empower individuals and collectives to challenge and overturn these clichés (Roberts, 2019). Journal of Business Ethics , 56 (3), 233–243. References Adams, J. Thought-terminating cliché.

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David Langford Presentation on Motivation and System Improvement

Deming Institute

David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization. The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish.

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A New Digital Iron Curtain

Coaching Tip

In the run-up to the conference, dozens of secret proposals by authoritarian governments were leaked online. . Under the rules of the ITU, the treaty takes effect in 2015 for these countries. Authoritarian regimes, led by Russia and China, have long schemed to use the U.N. The result was 89 countries in favor, with 55 against.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' but sometimes, they will.

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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business Review

For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal. It had been on my mind since September 2015, and I couldn’t wait to get started at the beginning of 2016. Nothing about writing the proposal felt like a “should.” You and Your Team Series.

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

Harvard Business Review

In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report found that in 2015, there were almost 30,000 harassment-related discrimination complaints, a number that is certainly well below the number of actual instances of workplace sexual harassment.

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

Dhir , an associate professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has done extensive research for his forthcoming 2015 book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance and Diversity. Phillips , the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and others have found.

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