Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. In short, never stop! Plan and Benchmark. Planning, tactics, organizational development.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. How sad is this? Are these extreme statements?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In terms of finding the right career, research shows that it’s really hard to predict what you’ll be good at ahead of time, especially just by “going with your gut”, and it turns out career tests don’t work either. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? I’m not against benchmarking and norming. While benchmarks are useful inputs for compensation decisions, they shouldn’t be a straitjacket. Let’s take pay.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. In Abundance Frame, the $64 trillion question is: “abundance for whom?”

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8