N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great insights Susan.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 347

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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Company Banking Incentives Human Capital 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs.

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Leadership Newsletter Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 50

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

Leadership isn’t simply a skill or a body of knowledge that one memorizes. Medical doctors are considered one of the most respected professions, yet the incidence of violations of ethics, misconduct and more appear to be higher than what one would expect from a profession that goes by the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.

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Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. a survey indicated that fewer than 60% of the Secret Service personnel said they would report ethical misconduct. It has been wisely said that people don't do what you tell them to do; they do what you pay them to do.

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. We cannot fool them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. Smart men and women in finance and corporate law always grow rich, or at least well-to-do.

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Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8