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How To Make AI Ethics More Effective

The Horizons Tracker

However, critics often dismiss these promises as mere “ethics washing.” ” To investigate the veracity of these criticisms, researchers from Stanford University conducted interviews with AI ethics professionals employed by some of the leading companies in the field.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people. Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market.

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Trust Issues

Coaching Tip

They reward unfavorable behaviors, while operating with myopic interests and escalating bureaucracy. Employees know what many leaders haven''t figured out: Parental, top-down cultures in today''s world are as ineffective as one-size-fits-all, print-only marketing approaches. Capture Your Market Share. Related articles.

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Don’t Be a Leader of Stupid Rules

Lead Change Blog

But, when the time comes for the cows to be transported to market, herding can become a challenge. Like TD Bank, make busting customer-restricting bureaucracy more valued than protecting those “sacred cows” long in need of slaughtering. Clearly there are circumstances where rules are crucial to safety, ethics and fairness.

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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Firms which package and market services. 7 Levels of Authority Figure. Self Appointed. Flash in the Pan.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Creating the New Standards of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

But as business became more global, spreading to emerging and developing markets in pursuit of cheap resources and labor, corporate leaders entered countries with weak institutions, bureaucracy and corruption. Who were they to impose the values of their home market on another country? That would be ethical imperialism.