Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

As an entrepreneur, if your business is struggling or your budget is tight, you might be tempted to make some compromises when it comes to your operations and the future of your company. However, there are a few elements of your business that leaders should always avoid compromising on at any cost. Your Equipment.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. Attendance and punctuality also speak to an employee’s overall work ethic and dedication to their job. Displays a strong work ethic by always showing up to work on time. WORK ETHIC A strong work ethic is the backbone of a thriving workplace.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 18, 2012

It brings executive leaders to a quiet place where they can see the value of stopping, looking, listening and feeling, allowing intuition to enter decisions, using connection to drive operations, welcoming the change that becomes or evolves, in line with a whole new menu of rewards that corporations of the future will embrace.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2021

Everyone is aware that entrepreneurs need to work hard in order to make a success of their businesses, and the same is true in every professional context, to varying degrees. Get the right tools for the job, that can help you to streamline your operation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As an entrepreneur, one of the best things that can happen to you is for your company to do well and for you to make a killing selling your company or shares in your firm. Too many entrepreneurs are so focused on their next steps that if they suddenly find themselves with a windfall, the next steps can seem difficult.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Jonas is a speaker, writer, entrepreneur, and the founder of design practice Social Fabric. We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. It means shedding the old work ethic in favor of a new ethic of work. Conscious leaders ask, “How can I help my teams to do their best work?”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2019

It’s certainly the case that you need to invest your money wisely, and if you’re operating in the wrong niche, that in and of itself can be lethal. In business, there are all kinds of different things that you need to be mindful of, and cautious about. Certain businesses are likely to be a boon to you, if you work with them.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

It may even be possible to team up with an entrepreneur that has already gained success in this field. However, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are now turning to crowdfunding instead. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2015

Anger: You’re extremely critical of yourself and other people, and judge others harshly believing you are ethically without reproach. At your best you’re charming, imaginative and a good entertainer, and operate within creative and stimulating environments. Many entrepreneurs are in this category).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

How can we help leaders deal with complexity and respond to it with ethical behavior? Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context offers Leading Ethically Through Complexity. No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Still, even the best entrepreneurs experience gaps in operations sometimes. It may be that they don’t have a great work ethic, or that they have a disagreeable manner. These are irritating yet inevitable parts of daily life. After all, the moment a crack appears, your efforts risk falling down that chasm. Don’t fear, though.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

These strategies come from the inquisitive mindsets of founders, entrepreneurs, and employees who are keen to make a difference. There might be elements that are worth emulating, but certainly not the ethic of dominance, because by their very nature, small and medium sized operations have no clout. The leader cannot do it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

A few years ago, I was teaching a two-day program about ethics in India for entrepreneurs and business faculty who taught entrepreneurship. But this is India, and we are entrepreneurs — we can’t even get a driver’s license without paying a bribe.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

The product or service that is powered by an authentic message and provides the most utility to it’s consumers without compromising the human and ethical side of it’s message, will prevail. For any business operating in this period it’s clear that influencer marketing needs to be an intrinsic part of your strategy.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

It may even be possible to team up with an entrepreneur that has already gained success in this field. However, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are now turning to crowdfunding instead. The team ethic truly counts for everything. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Sanyin Siang – Executive Director Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE), laboratory for leadership, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Alisa Cohn – Executive coach for CEOs, emerging leaders, and entrepreneurs, ranked Boston top 10 coaches, Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, faculty of Cornell Tech.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Imagine what your business could accomplish if every employee was an entrepreneur. He's director of the Task Force for Business & Stability Operations , which is giving Afghans a new sense of possibility, with the end goal of building businesses. Entrepreneurs don't work hard for money or fame, but because they're truly passionate.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Executive coach for CEOs, emerging leaders and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs. A visionary entrepreneur.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

And, the mission critical nature of credibility cannot be overstated, as it establishes a company or brand’s integrity, reliability, validity, soundness and a host of other image-including indicators of an entity’s moral and ethical code, and the standards by which it operates. Transparency Translates. About the Author.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? When we allow ourselves the word “try&# it usually means we are not committed and we have an easy out – because we only committed to “trying&#. Not to doing.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Europe has great potential to draw level with its American and Asian competitors and win the race on data platforms for industry and ethical AI applications. Entrepreneur James Liang highlights the tremendous benefits a large domestic market can bring in his latest book The Demographics of Innovation. Digital dominance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in. There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA. These kits combine low-cost diagnostics with user-friendly instructions and mobile support services.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 26, 2011

This person should be in the operations leg of your organization where organization and efficiency are responded to. If you have a staff member in a customer service position who is incredibly efficient and organized but not a people person, you are not effectively managing their capabilities.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

For example, many new entrepreneurs talk-the-talk of the entrepreneur — but their thinking is still grounded in their life as an employee. Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally. This can be deadly to their goals and aspirations. Author Mary C.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Virgin founder Richard Branson said, “Entrepreneurs are the crazy people who work 100 hours a week so they don’t have to work 40 hours for someone else.” Entrepreneurs reputedly enjoy taking risks.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Collins also makes it clear that a flywheel operates within a context —a framework of principles that great organizations adhere to. The flywheel principle operates at the pivot point from Disciplined Thought into Disciplined Action. The framework has four stages: Stage 1: Disciplined People. Stage 2: Disciplined Thought.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. Lastly, the six week residential accelerator is a fully immersive experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

If determining whether your employees are losing their ability to effectively process ideas and information costs next to nothing , aren't you ethically obligated to find that out? While personal and professional pain around the likely loss of one's faculties is unavoidable, the legal and ethical implications have only begun to be addressed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. That's no dig on James.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

According to government classifications I am ‘rich’ – As a New York City resident, I pay more than 50% in taxes, and as a 37 year old entrepreneur I ask myself when is enough, enough? My firm employs a little less than 100 people; we have no debt, we pay vendors on time, and have always operated a profitable business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Since you, the disruptive entrepreneur, can count on incumbent resistance (if not necessarily physical attack) down the road once you're successful, the question is: What can you do early on to be prepared for the onslaught? Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. Then Häagen-Dazs was acquired by Pillsbury.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Unlike entrepreneurs working out of the proverbial garage, you can draw on your company’s resources to get things done. And it requires a constant vigilance to make sure that you don’t get into legal or ethical grey areas or lose sight of the company’s interests. In theory, you have decent odds of getting it right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

And the result could be a formal statement from the CEO defining the organization’s culture or a list of operating cultural norms that govern the way staff interacts with one another — or both. Finally, expose your candidates to a larger picture of what it would be like to work at your organization.

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