Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While you may think you’re contributing a lot, it may pale in comparison to what others are doing. The commitment is much stronger. Do You Have a Strong Work Ethic? The presumption that everyone’s contribution should be equal is seriously flawed. First, people don’t always see eye to eye on the value of their contribution.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 2, 2019

It’s fantastic to be able to drive, but that pales in comparison to the freedom that a license affords you. If you’re not willing to make the commitment, don’t complain about the outcome. It takes hard work, determination, and commitment. One of the most memorable experiences in life is obtaining your driver’s license.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Bribery Act of 2010 makes the FCPA look meek by comparison and the UN Convention Against Corruption has spurred the European Union, China, and others to establish corporate integrity standards of their own. Commit to zero tolerance and say so. Anti-corruption laws have spread internationally and have become increasingly strict.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Furthermore, once we start down a path and invest resources in it, we tend to justify our past investments by continuing down that path even when new information suggests that the path is unwise, a phenomenon known as the escalation of commitment. Take the issue of productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Shoppers are rewarded for their loyalty to Walmart by having Walmart do comparison shopping for them. Loyalty here is as much about ethics as it is business. But that only happens if companies commit to offering loyalty as well as asking for it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She dreads saying that she has to leave to relieve the nanny because she knows that her colleagues may judge her as having a poor work ethic. What you should say: “Excuse me, I have another commitment.” Gathering her laptop and bag, Heather says, “Excuse me, I have another commitment.” Anything fun?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

There is even an academic conference every year at which researchers not only discuss the ethical and social challenges of machine learning but also present new models and methods for ensuring algorithms have a positive impact on society. This is not an argument for algorithmic absolutism or blind faith in the power of statistics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” The survey notes for comparison purposes, “workers in the general population report that work is stressful 30% of the time.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

What can you do to make sure you don’t look like a slacker in comparison? “The fear is that your manager will think you’re lazy, not committed, or less engaged,” says Hill. Your workaholic boss can’t complain about your work ethic if you’re delivering results and fulfilling your obligations.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, Starbucks sources all its European espresso beans from fair trade certified producers, and Dutch company Fairphone sells the world’s first entirely fair trade Android phone, with batteries made from ethically mined minerals. But for impact sourcing to spread, it needs more attention and corporate commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And will they potentially commit further crimes? Our estimates show that if we made pre-trial release decisions using our algorithm’s predictions of risk instead of relying on judge intuition, we could reduce crimes committed by released defendants by up to 25% without having to jail any additional people.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

He had been using a pale-by-comparison, low-expertise competitor, and I thought he surely would want to grade up to the best. I gracefully bowed out, citing the press of business and over-commitment to other volunteer work. Other members had like minds to the executive who recruited me. He found other warm bodies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Ethics also deserves more attention at every educational level. AI technologies face ethical dilemmas all the time — for example, how to exclude racial, ethnic, and gender prejudices from automated decisions; how a self-driving car balances the lives of its occupants with those of pedestrians, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Contrast this with a statesman who keeps commitments, is motivated by service above and beyond self, and by making a lasting positive difference. The politician makes speeches and promises motivated by pride, ego, notoriety, power, position, stature, and personal success. Do you see the difference yet between politicians and statesmen?

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