Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. and the U.K.,

Ethics 11

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Spaulding describes relationships in terms of a five-floor building. Product managers rely heavily on other people — engineers, sales people, support, etc. He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S. economy about $382 billion annually.

Review 157

Review Books ROI Loyalty 157

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

Dust off that copy of Good to Great on your bookshelf and remember that not long ago Jim Collin’s very credibly lionized them. On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. It’s just not sustainable.

Competitive Advantage 92

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 92

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. But it is the employee incentives that really matter.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience, seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. Develop and share own philosophies.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Rajesh Setty

MARCH 30, 2011

Tim Sanders has been an inspiration for me for a long time. When I was an Engineering student, one of my teachers who used to teach us about computers told me about a term GIGO (Garbage-In-Garbage-Out) – referring to the way computers process things. I still remember my first meeting with Tim at Yahoo! Fantasy Test.

Short-term 35

Short-term Long-term Open-book Fashion 35

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Long-term investments plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. The business you’re in. Study and refine your own core business characteristics. Each product-service is budgeted.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

But what are the ethical lines this paid-for content should not cross? The public relations and communications company Edelman definitely has a horse in this race, but it has issued a useful paper on the relationship of paid content and journalism, which ends with "An Ethical Framework" that makes some unexpected points.

Ethics 8

Ethics Content Guidelines Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

While data scientists, policymakers, and ethics boards work on large-scale, long-term fixes , it’s incumbent on us, as individual agents, to ensure that we find out and learn what we really need. What can be done? Force the system to cast its net wider. Third, get off the radar.

How To 15

How To Ethics Media Content 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The more long-term approach requires expanding the talent pool of people working on the next generation of AI technologies. Software and hardware engineers regularly test new technology products to ensure they are not harmful to people or businesses that will use them in the real world. Eliminating Biases in AI: The Technology.

Diversity 11

Diversity Technology Engineering Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. China has long enforced a strict media and information regime. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Looking back on my journey, I feel buoyed by this quote from investor Charlie Munger: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” You can expect to work pretty long hours during the first few years of opening a business.

Learning-by-Doing 256

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 256

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2019

Search Engine Rankings. We all put a lot of trust in the algorithms that determine search engine rankings, even if we don’t necessarily realize it. As long as you’re offering good service and a quality product, you shouldn’t need to worry about bad reviews too much. These are some of the best ways to build trust online.

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Review Content Marketing Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Maintaining great performance over the long term will require organizations to also emphasize adaptive performance.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

A taxi showed up not long after with the pizza, and Palmieri delivered it to the table. My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. ” Osteria Francescana is not the kind of place that offers pizza. ” or “What could you do?”

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Participative Creativity Learning-by-Doing Course 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding. In the past, Ellison has been quoted as saying that the island feels to him like “this really cool 21st-century engineering project.”

Management 9

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. We strive to build a long-time dedicated partnership and to share knowledge and experience with them.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Engagement is concerned with the level of effort people put forth at work.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In terms of finding the right career, research shows that it’s really hard to predict what you’ll be good at ahead of time, especially just by “going with your gut”, and it turns out career tests don’t work either. It saves a lot of time and heartache in the long run.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. That's because the work of making deep-seated, meaningful change — sustaining success and unleashing innovation over the long term — is that hardest work there is.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. Ashoka's Hybrid Value Chain: Revving the Engine of Sustained Global Prosperity and Social Value. It's Time for a New Metaphor Beyond "Ethics" and "Responsibility". Hack by Chris Allen. Story by John Baldzic.

McKinsey 9

McKinsey Innovation Diversity Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

If you are an operating systems software engineer who spends even part of the day working on her great idea for a new video game, you should be collecting unemployment. What difference does it make if I use breaks during the day — or when I am stuck — to think about an outside gig, as long as I get my work done?

Project 12

Project PR Career Creativity 12

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. by Hank Moore. What do we want to become?

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. They sell what they need to sell, rather than what the client really needs.

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. He spent more time doing chores at his farm and taking long naps than taking care of the nation’s business. Recovery and Restoration.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly disgruntled with the implicit contract that governs the rights and responsibilities of business. Capitalism degenerates into narrow self-interest without a strong ethical foundation.

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Because of that, good and bad impressions may have long-term, global reach. ” All this is very much in keeping with the Apple brand, which has long espoused individuality over conformity.

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Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

To the long, dismal list of fatally broken institutions — GDP, governments, schools, corporations — we can add the mysterious Libor , and its conveniently comfortable calculation. These are the terms of the debate we're not having. It's about the capacity to create a worthwhile future. There are a multiplicity of systems.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Not long ago, the entire world watched BP and inept CEO Tony Hayward make blunder after blunder while their crude killed. Other than the long-overdue removal ofHayward, (who publicly said he wanted his life back), the company has failed to restore its image.

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Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

s Human Development Index and the standard economic measure of per capita GDP illustrates just how important it is to develop a neutral, long-term-focused metric for progress. Science and engineering have become devalued amongst American students and policy-makers. The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9