Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 2, 2024

Parents also promoted the value of a strong work ethic. Of course, kids who didn’t follow the rules paid a price. Consequently, we were taught to eat everything on our plate, to never leave lights on when we left a room, and to be happy with hand-me-downs instead of new clothes. It wasn’t called abuse; it was called discipline.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A life of honor offers abundant rewards; a life of dishonor comes at a very steep price. Does It Pay to Be Ethical? On the other hand, unprincipled people pay the penalty by having to carry emotional baggage. They live with guilt, shame, fear, self-doubt, anxiety, and stress. The Wrong Way to Do What’s Right.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 12, 2021

The key is that they must pay a price for dishonest and immoral behavior. Ethics as Usual. Is it too much to ask people to tell the truth, keep their commitments, and earn their rewards? Is it too much to ask role models to live an honorable life and lead by example? There will always be liars, cheaters, and thieves. So does inaction.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

For example, Northrop Grumman CEO Kent Kresa inherited a company that had a poor reputation for integrity, a battered stock price, and reputation as one of the least-admired companies. He communicated clear expectations for ethics, values, and behavior. From the start, Kent led by example. Life is good.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? They also seek the advice and counsel of their board and executive team in addition to a plethora of outside advisers.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 19, 2018

And as a leader, you have to heed Terry’s advice. From the possibility of the bank foreclosing on your business to firing an employee to doing the ethical thing (when others are pressuring you to make an unethical choice), you’re going to be hit and hurt. Ethics , morals, business direction, and more.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. Jennifer V. I share a bit of my journey in Leadership Development Made Easy.”.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 7, 2011

We are in the process of forming a new team and want a strong team ethic and identity towards our key stakeholders. Take care, Barry Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: My Five Most Read Posts of 2010 Next post: What is the Price? Thanks for the inspiration – It was remarkable!!

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As with so many online platforms, practitioners range from those offering premium services for a high price to their more budget-oriented peers. This resulted in some lawyers admitting that they had altered advice to clients when they felt they were unhappy, despite this violating their ethics. A gigging life.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. I confided in a friend at the company and sought her advice. We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 16, 2018

Are you willing to have them pay the price for your choices? The risks Elihas took were too great… Too many … And people paid the price. You can’t be an ethical leader while doing unethical things. Seek advice on what improvements could be added or what could be subtracted. And others may as well.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

During his decade long tenure, the stock price skyrocketed nearly 10X. As part of our effort to help future leaders , we will read and post all of your comments and share candid feedback and advice. “Well, my intelligence didn’t increase after that terrifying episode, but my work ethic did,” Brad told us.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

We conduct focus groups and surveys to gain insight into the key decision drivers as well as candid feedback on product and pricing. What would you do or advice to give someone starting their career? The message is work ethic counts. Lastly, ask the consumer. How is your leadership style different than Michael’s?

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Steve Farber

MARCH 25, 2009

To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. “So the advice I’m looking for is this: “How do you get back up?&#. After all, I had only the sketchiest of details about Ken’s situation, and it was just presumptuous of me to assume I could help him with a few pithy words of advice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

If determining whether your employees are losing their ability to effectively process ideas and information costs next to nothing , aren't you ethically obligated to find that out? If you seek premium prices from customers and clients for your knowledge-intensive services, they may insist they do. My bet is, no. Should you allow?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Online and algorithmic investment and financial advice is easy to come by these days, usually under the moniker of “robo-advisor.” Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

A full 30% also said the structure of their compensation plans encouraged law-breaking or ethics violations. Leadership Advice from Six Major CEOs and One President (McKinsey). Netflix's Lost Year: The Inside Story of the Price-Hike Train Wreck (CNET). As Battery Prices Drop, Will Electric Cars Finally Catch On?

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Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 9, 2009

How about this: "You can be practically anything you want in life, if you prepare yourself for it and are willing to pay the price to get it." Posted by Meredith Bell at 4:09 PM Labels: encouragement , entitlement , John Rosemond , Parenting , parenting advice , responsibility 12comments: Debra Hollandsaid.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

What advice would you give new college graduates about launching themselves into the workforce? The hundreds of responses offered a wealth of advice and insight about what it takes to make a successful transition from college into the workforce. Beginning May 12, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Top executives systematically swept the company's misdeeds under the rug despite stern advice from its general counsel and internal investigator. Boards of Directors must express their commitment to a zero-tolerance policy toward corruption in the form of a formal Codes of Ethics or Conduct. That advice was buried.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. It's sound advice on how to succeed as a business innovator in the 21st century. So, for those innovators at work today, just remember — you can price your way into a war with a powerful incumbent, but you can't price your way out of one.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Over the last year blogs at US News , Daily Finance , Forbes , and articles like this one in the New York Times have questioned the work ethic and entitlement mentality of generation Y. But the interesting finding in all of this is that the person who does the punishing actually pays a personal price in terms of lost social support.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

As companies adjust comfort levels and acquire confidence in the arena of business development, there is a direct relationship to billings, client mix diversity, market share, competitive advantage, stock price and levels of business which enable other planned growth. Ethics Statement. Timeline for implementation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Unprofitable pricing. Repairing ethically wrong actions. Bad advice from the wrong consultants. Regulatory red tape. Excess overhead. Missed Marks. Poor controls on quality. Fallout damage from employees with problems. Undercapitalization. Unsuccessful marketing. Damage Control. Crisis management. Affirmative action violations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Many deals were put on the books in order to inflate the price of Enron stock, which the insiders sold at peak price levels. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Getting bad advice from the wrong people, mainly other tech professionals.

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