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5 Convincing Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices

Strategy Driven

Fortunately, with the help of demand management , you can track your energy requirements and capacity and control costs. Modern-age consumers favor businesses that promote social and ethical values and support the marginalized. Retaining a valued workforce is thus also less of a hassle if the company has a positive image in the market.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. The discrepancy could be attributed to misconceptions like those mentioned above and to misunderstandings on the part of both veteran and hiring manager. Programs like the U.S.

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Guest Post: Talk is Cheap!

Lead on Purpose

I said to Allar , “Rather than be at each other’s throats as we sink, let’s work together – collaborate – and figure out how we’re going to get out of this mess…” In other words, I was ready to tear down the walls that separated the union and management, because I understood that we needed each other to survive.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. So how do you know whether your company is positioned to help you­ — or hurt you — as you encounter gray-area decisions in your work? Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. What’s the tone from upper management?

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. These scenarios are seldom contemplated in institutional management of conflicts of interest. Our experiences in both sectors have led us to this conclusion. Practicing physicians.

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

Companies are perfectly positioned to promote themselves as havens for civility and respect. And a growing number of CEOs and chairs are taking positions on political and social issues. Such incivility threatens the very roots of democracy. Make work safe for discussion and conflict. Do not tolerate incivility.