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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

These leaders never micro-manage. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. In a blog published February 19, 2017 by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, she outlined how her sexual harassment complaint to the Uber human resources department against her team manager was ignored.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. We’re in the business of helping clients measure and manage culture. There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Managers have to figure out their higher and lower risk intelligent device vulnerabilities, add in redundant systems, and potentially set up the AI equivalent of tsunami early-warning systems. As a result, no company will be able to recover on its own.