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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

One best practice is to utilize anonymous surveys or questionnaires, allowing board members to share their thoughts without fearing potential repercussions. Boards are critical in overseeing and guiding the company’s risk management framework, ensuring adequate measures are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Commission customer and employee surveys. This includes repeating surveys to assure that you are making adequate progress.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

And, will they shake up the trillion-dollar corporate consulting and advisory industry? Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. And 92% of executives surveyed said supply chain workforces will be upskilled and enabled to interact and work with machines seamlessly. Thyssenkrupp is overcoming skill mismatches through AI.

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How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating

Harvard Business Review

In a recent ethics survey, Fuld & Company asked competitive analysts from more than 100 large firms worldwide to gauge their potentially risky information-collection behavior. For example, only 40% of Europeans surveyed said that they had received any training on these guidelines, compared to 68% of their U.S. counterparts.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. Developing others is the key competency that distinguishes "leaders" from "managers".