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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Quotes on The Future. “The future ain’t what it used to be.”

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Are these huge major financial institutions not just too big to fail, their leaders “too big to jail” (as some critics charge), but also “too big to manage”?

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The Big Picture of Business – Biggest Excuses They Use… and You Should Avoid: Rationales and Reasons Why Businesses Fail

Strategy Driven

We’ve got the latest technology. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Once the PR crisis passes, things will get back to normal. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

I seldom, if ever, hear that apologetic tone from students choosing technology companies or consulting. How will the crisis of problematic loans in Italian banks be resolved? Finally, the global financial crisis has taught us about the havoc that finance can wreak — and how central the industry is to our lives.