Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Utilization of industry consultants or technical specialists. Employees know their jobs, are empowered to make decisions and have high morale in carrying the company banner forward. The company leads the industry. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. Running the business.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

“Ethical situations at work can be cause for alarm, and are also a normal part of doing business,” says Detert. That’s why it’s important to not only know how to recognize an ethical issue but how to raise it — especially one that may be more of a gray area, she says. ” Talk to the perpetrator first.

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Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Similar patterns emerge among people who reach the pinnacle of corporate life: CEOs. Recession graduates who become CEOs often run smaller, less-prestigious companies than their counterparts who started in more-prosperous economic times. These effects could not be explained by different industry or occupational choices.

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Career Ethics CEO Class 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

To honor the biblical teaching to rest on the Sabbath, Chick-fil-A has always been closed on Sundays, thus forgoing one of the highest revenue days of the week for the restaurant industry. CEO Dan Cathy, like his father Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A, lets his Christian faith serve as a guide for his business ethics and decisions.

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Ethics CEO Letter Globalization 12

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. However, I refer to them as moral values.

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Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Truth is, some of the most successful and iconic leaders, including many CEOs, were (and are) consummate, accomplished prevaricators. There’s Larry Ellison, one of the richest men in the world and Oracle CEO and co-founder. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself' My takeaways?

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Our system of financial accounting rewards quarterly profits, but struggles mightily to place a value on ethical behavior. That should keep the accountants happy.

Intangible Assets 11

Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 11

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

The New York Times was wrong (of course) when it declared the protests " A Political Coming of Age for The Tech Industry." Of course, MPAA Chairman, CEO and former Senator Christopher Dodd warned/whined that the blackouts were a "dangerous gimmick" and a "stunt," not to mention an "irresponsible abuse of power."

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Tactics Self-aware Politics Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Murdoch is the latest in a series of CEOs who become the story when their companies are caught in scandals, because their rise has been accompanied by shoving, bullying, and disdain for the concerns of others. The emperor, dictator, or CEO finds himself increasingly isolated and abandoned to the wolves. Executives are not baboons.

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Long-term Short-term CEO Ethics 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I teach a course on ethics at the McCombs School of Business and have run the McCombs Speaker Series on Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility for the last seven years. His talk, as well as his book, presents a self-exposé of an intelligent and nice man with too much loyalty to his CEO, Richard Scrushy.

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Loyalty McCombs Ethics Follow-up 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I believe that this is due to the discrepancy in the two dominant approaches in rationalizing why corporations should be ethical. The German philosopher argued people should act out of moral obligations. The company is there to make money, but it also tries to appear to meet the public expectation of acting ethically.

Ethics 8

Ethics Competitive Advantage Crisis Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Twenty years ago, a citizen might not know the name of a Fortune 500 CEO or NGO director, but they knew the reputation of the institution—and made an assumption that the person chosen to lead it must personify its good qualities. The reflected glory of their institutions. Conditions have changed to make leadership harder.

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NGO Morale Reputation Media 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2017

A leader in the health industry recalled an incident from 40 years ago that still haunted him. There is always someone or something more powerful than you are — when we spoke with company CEOs, they’d express concern about their boards, and when we spoke with board chairmen, they’d admit to being afraid of the media.

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Power Chief Operating Officer Politics COO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Too many industries do harm in the world — whether through their actual practices, their lobbying efforts, or their treatment of the environment or of workers. Instead of thinking about whether the work of our brains and hands actually helps to abet evil, we regular engage in various moral trade-offs to make ourselves feel better.

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Company Ethics Due Diligence Mission Statement 9

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

But as behavioral scientist Cass Sunstein has cautioned , there are sound uses for personal data on social media if handled ethically. Personality insights and other aspects of behavioral science offer opportunities to better connect with individuals, and if done ethically it can be beneficial for consumers and businesses alike.

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Marketing Advertising Ethics Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., An occupational moral hazard for consultants is feeling superior to clients, in particular thinking you're smarter than they are.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Rather than seeing WikiLeaks through the lens of morality or national security , let's look at it through an institutional lens. It's built on a set of institutions crafted in and for the industrial age — like annual and quarterly reports. There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter.

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GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). 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. We cannot fool them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Topics discussed include the society that produced business scandals, accountants and auditors, pedestals upon which CEOs are placed, spin doctoring, compensations and accountability issues with managers. That the CEO can make or break the company single-handedly. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Three years ago, 37% of CEOs were concerned about a lack of trust in businesses, according to the PwC Annual Global CEO survey. Across industries, that number has climbed to 55%. A high level of trust between managers and employees defines the best workplaces and drives overall company performance and revenue. As Stephen M.

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Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Within hours of President Trump ordering a 90-day halt on travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries, CEOs — primarily in the tech industry — began criticizing the new president. Research into the effects of CEO activism points to a balance of risks and rewards.

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CEO Attrition Travel Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Over the years, I''ve seen tough-as-nails CEOs abandon their normal prudence when dealing with China and its potentially vast market. The media business is far from the only industry that has struggled to find its footing in China (it''s just the one I happen to know best). China Ethics Global business'

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Magazine Globalization Film Politics 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. Lay was the outsider who wanted status with the downtown CEO clique.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

The CEO of Chick-fil-A's position on same-sex marriage has provoked a consumer boycott, mayoral threats of denied permits, a counter-boycott culminating in a "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," and a kiss-in. Activists are not merely trying to change the behavior of one specific firm, but want to change industry practice as a whole.

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Company Supply Chain Politics Media 12