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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

In the public arena, we vote for our leaders (this may provide the most obvious connection to our responsibility for bad leadership): In this case, we might ignore bad past behavior before we cast our vote. We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. ” Usually, companies often want to utilize “core competencies” in order to expand into “adjacencies.”

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. They got into business ventures on whims or for flashy reasons, utilizing concepts that were untried.