Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Make sure you say in your ad description what they need to be successful with you (eg – a computer with internet access, a nice phone voice, computer skills, etc.). Related posts: Build Your Skills With Outside Activities Post by Jane K. I have used www.internhere.com to post my request. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

In truth, the key is that they have the skills, passion, and traits to complement your natural talents. Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. The team ethic truly counts for everything. A business partner can be a friend, a former colleague, or a new acquaintance.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Rather than just kill something with a quick no, a good leader uses every adverse scenario as a development opportunity to help people advance their critical thinking and decisioning skills. While I understand that there are times when using no may be your only option, those times should be the exception and not the rule. But are they?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2023

A qualified leader can navigate the organization’s conflicting demands through solid communication skills. Every leader must consistently work to hone their leadership skills. A healthcare administrator works with the HR department to hire new staff members, goes through finances and budgeting, and achieves department goals.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. Leaders sometimes forget that new hires are a reflection of the belief systems they established.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The quickest way to flip this public perception on its head is to render AI genderless, something I advocate for tirelessly and practice with Sage’s personal finance assistant, Pegg. People building AI test their systems for utility, safety, and scalability, with a focus on eliminating product flaws and security vulnerabilities.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While the production system requires more worker skill and effort, employers have incentives to retain these valuable workers through improved working conditions. We think that the key to these performance improvements is the new role that workers play in lean manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. naqiewei/Getty Images. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Listing your current skill sets can tell you what is currently possible for your professional development goals. What skills or qualifications do I need to achieve my desired roles? Can I learn these skills on the job or will I require external certifications? What are my strengths and weaknesses?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Contrary to the common fear that educated and skillful workers are more difficult to retain, our experience is that workers' attachment to us grows as they absorb and share our values and passion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. It turns out that when employees felt that they were being monitored, they felt pressured to stick to “proven” methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. Leadership and culture are key drivers of behavior.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. It takes tragedies occurring in order for the system to stand back, take focus and fix what is wrong. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Particularly, I wonder to what extent business schools foster the integral skills these higher-ambition leaders use as a foundation for their success: Business Integration. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

There’s nothing to be gained by lashing out or putting down the system or the person delivering the review.” That may involve learning new skills, reprioritizing your tasks, or reevaluating how you come across to colleagues. In college and law school, my work ethic and performance had always been excellent,” she says. “So

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Allow me to recommend some categories: Leadership (of course), Success, Theology, History, Economics, the Classics, Politics and Freedom, Finances and Investing.  As books began to come through system, I was amazed at how my hunger to read grew exponentially! Read broadly across many genres. I am looking forward to the explosion.

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