Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

At the end of the day, no one should feel guilty for profits that are earned legally and ethically. They’ve demonstrated that commitment by sponsoring one of my favorite annual leadership conferences Leadercast , which helps keep the event accessible and affordable for more people. Meet a Need.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

On a Friday at lunchtime, get employees together in a conference room for pizza and salad or go outside of work for an informal lunch and time to mingle. Here’s a couple easy things you can do to help improve employee engagement. why is everyone smiling?

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, a Conference Board research report showed that job satisfaction is at the lowest level since the organization began measuring it more than 20 years ago. To be an effective leader requires a commitment to serve your organization’s mission and the people you are responsible for leading. It’s how we are wired.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

If companies get better at hiring candidates who correctly match the work ethic, job description, and company culture of the organization, they immediately reduce the likelihood of these candidates leaving.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 13, 2023

Encouraging transparency, trust, and ethical behavior at all levels of the organization to foster a culture of integrity and accountability. Organizations can provide opportunities for learning and growth by: Offering training programs, workshops, and conferences to enhance employees’ skills, knowledge, and professional development.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

By Bonnie Marcus This past week I had the opportunity to not only attend the MA Conference for Women, but also to participate in a leadership panel about women and corporate board positions. Look at the opportunity strategically and focus not only what you can contribute, but what this commitment can do for you.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

Fun is the element that allows people to make it through the difficult tasks and overwhelming deadlines, and the best leaders know how to make it work without compromising the team’s work ethic or commitment to excellence. Model accountability and teach responsibility. Give them something to learn and grow on.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

And because of its ongoing commitment to culture, Zappos continues to perform well, even weathering an acquisition by Amazon—without doubt an extraordinarily different corporate culture. They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior. Zappos is one example. Jason Richmond.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 21, 2011

College football has never been more prosperous, with five of the major college sports conferences recently signing billion-dollar broadcast deals. Meyer said the NCAA’s punishment model is futile, with the rewards for breaking rules outweighing the risks.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

You’re engaged in a lively conversation when all of a sudden, Flying Monkeys dive into the conference room via as vibrating Blackberry’s, urgent emails, flashes of instant messages and sigh of the onslaught – Flying Monkeys – Flying Monkeys announce the arrival. Commitment – demonstrate commitment to your product’s success.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Do something well and commit to long-term excellence. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Conceptualize your own personal goals. Helping others.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2015

get commitment). Prospect, if it was just you, and you didn’t need to confer with anyone else, would you buy?” (The Do it any (ethical) way you have to. Surely as you discuss our service, questions about productivity and profitability will arise. And questions might arise about our service. Arrange a meeting with all decider’s.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

If committed, the person turns the quest for knowledge into a life priority. 7) Purpose and Commitment. This requires many years of commitment to learning, compounded by the continuous development of knowledge. A truly successful person commits to mentoring others, giving back, mastering change and never failing to learn.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 6, 2019

Is It Ethics? To what degree does ethics play a part? In this post I’ll explore 5 ways that an organization’s ethics impacts employee engagement.” Eileen McDargh contributed The Lessons of Hindsight for Ownership and Commitment. Engagement. Linda asks: “What really drives engagement?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Selecting what you want to work on, though, can often feel easier than actually moving toward those goals, especially when you’re faced with other work commitments. Creating an Ethical Workplace. To do so, decide on which days and times you can commit to moving ahead on your goal. You and Your Team Series.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. All of the blog posts, books, or conferences attended won’t amount to a hill of beans if there is no practical application of these concepts.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. You, however, might prefer getting hands-on experience with a landmark project that you’d love to work on. Financial Security The most obvious goal of employment is financial security.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. The first day of the conference was devoted to volunteering.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Feed the baby while on the conference call! Demonstrate your commitment. When working remotely, take care to provide small, clear signals that your commitment and work ethic are unwavering. These small tactics will let you appear eager, committed, and hardworking — good attributes at any level.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But commitment guides bravery more than an inherent belief in self-ability! However, before committing, choose the organization of interest EXTREMELY carefully. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy. Don’t be timid.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

During a press conference that afternoon, Owens tried to endorse the idea of a fiscal stimulus in general while making it clear that layoffs would persist. As Max Weber might have put it , the President was motivated by an ethic of conviction , doing everything possible to achieve his end goal, which was getting the bill passed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

3) "Is it a matter of principle?" — might there be an ethical issue involved? To honor my commitment to my family, I set aside 16 days in the summer (two weeks and the three weekends around those two weeks) for vacation. Declare your commitment to the date. The lesson here? Kill two birds with one stone.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. It's virtually impossible to do so without leaders who are committed to an enduring set of values, even as they are prepared to question a wide range of business practices. That was 1994.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

When I do face-to-face meetings, my colleagues and I typically met around some conference table, sometimes at an airport lounge (nothing like getting the most out of a long layover), and quite often at coffee shops (hello Starbucks!). My American-bred Puritan work ethic nearly always won out. Going to the gym to take care of me (vs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech. After the 2008 financial crisis, business schools hastened to add ethics courses. We are all, it seems, splitting into “team human” and “team machine.”

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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

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. Uber faced an important challenge in implementing this strategy: It isn’t easy to get people to commit crimes.

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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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2017

The how: to feel emotionally committed, we all want to: * learn, grow and be challenged * feel appreciated * work for a higher purpose, not just a paycheck * and the first three items don’t matter if we can’t actually trust our leaders. To share a compelling vision … it’s not about the mission statement poster hanging in the conference room.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Access to gossip confers social status — we feel we are part of a privileged group who’s “in the know.” I adopted an ethic years ago that I always use to warn people away who want to pass along information about another person. Gossip reflects just as negatively on the receiver as it does on the provider.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it. In today’s blog post I’ll attempt to paint the portrait of the perfect leader… So, what traits would my perfect leader possess?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

For the past several months, it seemed that everywhere I turned people were talking about events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and North Charleston — in living rooms, classrooms, anchor rooms — everywhere but in most corporate conference rooms. Commit to sponsoring (not just mentoring) someone who doesn’t look like you.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

For the past several months, it seemed that everywhere I turned people were talking about events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and North Charleston — in living rooms, classrooms, anchor rooms — everywhere but in most corporate conference rooms. Commit to sponsoring (not just mentoring) someone who doesn’t look like you.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Another incident shows Marshall’s commitment to openness and honesty. Years later when Marshall was attending his first conference with FDR, the president asked for his opinion on a subject that everyone else in the room had already agreed on. why is everyone smiling?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

An employee is unjustly treated badly, leaves the job upset at the end of the day, on the way home commits road-rage, gets home, kicks the dog, fights with the wife, scolds the kids and causes total misery in the neighborhood. I would also suggest that attitude plays a huge difference in the equation as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Parent/teacher conference Wednesday. The problem isn’t in your organizational system or work ethic — it’s in how human brains are wired. But representing your firm at an international conference or attending every single football game isn’t, because they don’t align with your goal.

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