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Tips on Investing as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Are the any conflicts of interest? There are Government and Corporate bonds, and like the stock market, if you are going to buy corporate bonds, you need to check that there are no reputational issues or conflicts of interest. You should never go full steam ahead into any financial decision.

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Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

Harvard Business Review

Review outside consultants carefully to prevent conflicts of interest. As an example, one source claimed that a top candidate was an alcoholic, but when further vetting with more trusted sources confirmed no such behavior, the company chose the falsely accused candidate as its chief executive.

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Simplifying the STAR Interview Technique for Your Next Interview

HR Digest

You might have rehearsed your career history and have your goals and aspirations ready on the tip of your tongue, but many interview questions choose to shift the focus from what you know to how you behave instead. Have you experienced any conflict of interest in your role? How did you handle it? How did you approach it?

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The Best Ways to Discuss Ethics

Harvard Business Review

Employees can visit the website and read about the company policy regarding ethically questionable behaviors, and learn tips on how to best defend themselves from crossing ethical boundaries. Still, this leaves open the question of what actually works in guiding employees' ethical behavior.

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How to Handle 3 Types of Difficult Conversations

Harvard Business Review

Here are some specific tips for navigating the most common scenarios, including the wrong way to approach the issue and a better way. But the context of your discussion also matters. Do you need to take a stand on something? Deliver bad news? Do you have time to prepare, or are you caught off guard? ” But don’t stop there.

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Dating the boss, crossing an invisible line?

HR Digest

There are also multiple possibilities of potential conflicts of interest that can be hard to resolve. If everyone at work already knows you’re in a relationship, you might want to get tips and advice from the HR on how to protect your professional reputation. Your affair could be fodder for office gossip.