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We Must Hold Our Leaders To The Highest Levels Of Integrity.

Rich Gee Group

This lack of accountability can also be seen in the system's absence of checks and balances, where leaders are given unchecked power. When leaders lack integrity, it undermines trust in the institutions they represent and can erode the public's faith in their leaders and the systems in place to serve them. Encourage transparency.

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How to successfully conduct employee disciplinary meeting?

HR Digest

It is also essential to let the employee know that they can bring a support system to the meeting who can be character witness or give additional info about the incident that led to the disciplinary meeting. However, it is entitled to refuse the employees’ choice of support person if any conflict of interest arises.

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A Lesson from Warren Buffet about Ethical Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

The data seem clear on David Sokol's conflict of interest in the Berkshire/Lubrizol deal. As we seek to create more integrity in our financial system, we need to realize that even good people are affected by motivational blindness. A desire for integrity is no protection from conflicts of interest.

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Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

Harvard Business Review

Berra was famous for his “Yogi-isms,” but this one contained an essential truth: inchoate strategies and ineffectual leadership generally go hand in hand. And even those who did said that the reward system was still too weak to effectively guide the CEO’s actions. Review outside consultants carefully to prevent conflicts of interest.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. Leveraging Executive Sponsors. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. Leveraging Executive Sponsors. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

Complete transparency in work settings may foster the attitude among employees that, because the company theoretically knows “everything,” they’re entitled to cheat the system when they can get away with it. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly.

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