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The Best Ways to Discuss Ethics

Harvard Business Review

Companies can take a wide variety of approaches to how to discuss ethics. At one end of the spectrum are companies that rely on their code of ethics or on the exemplary behavior of people at the top. Still, this leaves open the question of what actually works in guiding employees' ethical behavior. Setting the right example.

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Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

Harvard Business Review

Use an evaluation system that links the company’s strategic requirements with the prospects’ individual capacities and performance, with the latter focusing on their integrity and ethics, team building, execution excellence, shareholder return, and personal gravitas—and ability to work in the boardroom.

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Dating the boss, crossing an invisible line?

HR Digest

Everyone will naturally think that the person sleeping with the boss will have the inside scoop on promotions, pay and information, and that undermines trust in leadership, cautions Robert Chestnut, Airbnb’s Chief Ethics Officer. There are also multiple possibilities of potential conflicts of interest that can be hard to resolve.