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Leadership Lessons: When Truth is Discounted

Women on Business

I have done this in many instances when the risk has been to my career, reputation, and even the financial bottom line. Here is the story: I have always been a rebel, rebel who wants to see positive change and is willing to stand and be counted.

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3 Things Healthcare Organizations Do Differently When It Comes to Advertising

Strategy Driven

They are more inclined towards maintaining their reputation, almost forgetting that they need to attract clients, just like any other business. The guidelines limit the healthcare organizations’ ability to offer special pricing discounts to their clients. Most people in the healthcare business have little or no business knowledge.

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Differentiation’s Arch Enemy: Price

In the CEO Afterlife

Collectively, these giants employ 300,000 people, the vast majority of which are committed to delivering results, ethically. In the heat of battle, there is a hell of an incentive to discount products for easy market share, even by the most disciplined of marketers. He lost his job and his reputation.

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Want to be taken seriously at work? Here are three things to do

HR Digest

Then there is a need to examine your own behavior on how you conform to some sensitive ethics in a corporate environment. People will start to discount other things you say if you begin with trifling ideas. Building a reputation as someone who gets things done sends a good message to others. You must be ready to listen.

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Why Price Fixing Continues

In the CEO Afterlife

Collectively, these giants employ 300,000 people, the vast majority of which are committed to delivering results, ethically. In the heat of battle, there is a hell of an incentive to discount products for easy market share, even by the most disciplined of marketers. He lost his job and his reputation.

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The Customer Really Is Always Right

Strategy Driven

If you are keen to hone your positive reputation, you need to have a policy in place that recognizes that the customer is always right. This means you need to solidify your reputation immediately. While you can’t pay for positive feedback as this is not ethically sound, you can incentivize your customers to leave a review of any kind.

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Top Traits of Socially Responsible Employers

Strategy Driven

If you don’t implement certain standards, there is every chance that you could get called out on this and in today’s world of social media and instant communication, any reputation as a poor employer will spread quickly. As an employer, it is your responsibility to implement certain standards of integrity and ethical behaviour.