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Take a chance on talent (from #SHRM17)

Surviving Leadership

These barriers only serve to weed out people who may have excellent potential, ensuring you hire people who were successful in one system but not necessarily in yours. But he clearly had an eye from problem solving, a creative mind, and a work ethic like no other. So I hired him. And he was amazing.

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Talking About Ethics Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago, I was teaching a two-day program about ethics in India for entrepreneurs and business faculty who taught entrepreneurship. My aim was to take a new approach to values-driven leadership development, one that was a stark departure from the way companies and educators had been teaching business ethics.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” We were big believers in creativity and we had a culture of big ideas. Nabob has seen many during its 120 years in the coffee biz.

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The Making of Legends

Strategy Driven

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Enlighten international audiences on Western world philanthropy tenets. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Helping others. Finding one’s passion.

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Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy

Strategy Driven

These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. This is a highly functional technology for any individual that regularly works with various types of documents and data.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

6) Insights, Beliefs, Systems of Thought. (7) It is up to both to obtain skills, inspiration, mentoring, processes, accountability, creativity and other components from niche experts. By their nature, HR departments are designed to uphold processes and systems. 2) Learning Curve. (3) 3) Applications for Lessons Learned. (4)

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Former Managing Director and Partner, Goldman Sachs.