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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. When organizations go astray ethically, it is usually due to a lack of ethical competence, not bad people.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Design and re-engineering of products-services. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Focus on excellence. When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well.

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

Long-term track record, unlike anything accomplished by any other individual, all contributing toward organizational philosophy, purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. As one matures, survives, life becomes a giant reflection. Develop and share own philosophies.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It's the company's deeply embedded belief system, its prevailing ethics, and the way people within the company interact with each other and with customers. The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering. There was no software leader in the company who was allowed to mature and grow.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

They assembled numerous contemporary examples of core competence, including NEC's semiconductors, Canon's microelectronics, and Honda's small-engine design. Thought leaders "lead" by staying ahead of the curve — by recognizing and writing about managerial ideas before they become too mature. How Ethical Are You?

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). What is their maturity level? Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. What is their longevity?

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business Review

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. They are two sides of the same coin; one cannot exist without the other.