Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. Efficiency is a focus on process, maximizing outputs while minimizing resources. Lead Ethically Unethical behavior by a single employee is often easy to spot and deal with.

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the financial derivatives market collapse, Toyota concealing owner reports of sudden acceleration (resulting in a USA man sentenced to prison) and the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. link] Laurie Young Hi Mike, thanks for the explanation.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 7, 2011

Sometimes it is asked in a more politically correct way. So let’s see if we can explore what you can do, and in the process see if we can help answer this all-too-prevalent question. However, your values and ethics also impact your perspective. Sometimes it is asked as a curiosity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Some may see benefits from indulging in corrupt practices such as faster processing of permits or less interference from governmental officials. Moreover, our research illuminates specific steps companies can take to maintain high ethical standards in environments where corruption seems widespread. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

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Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is a continuing process where we keep the elements mixed. Good intentions and political correctness are not enough. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. It opens your services to additional market niches. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. There is so much unethical behavior (what I refer to as situational ethics) at the executive level that continues to create an us versus them environment. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Systems and Processes : structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

Wolff assert that emotional intelligence underlies the effective processes of successful teams and that such resulting processes cannot be imitated; they must originate from genuine emotional intelligence at the team level. John Rampton is an entrepreneur, investor, online marketing guru and startup enthusiast.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We don’t share the same politics, we disagree about business matters, we don;t share the same tastes. It helps me in my work with both men and women, since it really becomes part of the assessment process as we move through our work together! It has not made us closer than we were already. Unported License.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2016

or your organization; It’s not the strength of your relationship or who you ‘know’; It’s not the market, your competition, your return potential or your marketing materials. Sadly, as an outsider, you have no access to their hidden or historic arrangements or political mind-fields. And then the problem with marketing materials.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

These issues include legislation, regulation, litigation, enforcement, investigations, geopolitical risk, demands for ethical actions, and public criticism, affecting all the functions of the corporation in their interaction with all levels of global governments (central, regional, local).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Here is how it could look: i.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. So when the opportunity arises (i.e., Try new approaches.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. The new economy has accelerated the need for change in the branding process. That’s an understatement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

AI systems and devices will soon recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions. A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. However, the service’s output is completely emotion-free.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. Before you can scale the business, you have to understand what your customers really want and value, and how to deliver it to them — and that process requires a lot of flexibility.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In many organisations influence is a function of previously proven experience (earned stripes so to speak) and people who are fresh to the organisation, with different ideals and approaches and who are less politically connected may find their ideas sqeezed out by institutional knowledge and cultural dominance. Let me expand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

We stimulate a market for gossip because we prize four illusory benefits: Status. Office Politics. There is no integrity in a process with no accountability. I adopted an ethic years ago that I always use to warn people away who want to pass along information about another person. ” Intimacy. Why We Fight at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

By competing on products, we respond to the market. By competing on serving customers, we can understand, anticipate, stimulate, and influence market demands. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Horowitz says that most are happy to be done with “the brutal schedule, the way work is organized, and office politics.” Do you have a marketable skill? “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns. More on that below.).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

There are seven levels of strategy retreats and processes in which companies can engage, with #1 being a starting point and #7 being the ultimate outcome: Information Sharing. Political fund raising. Sales or marketing support. Bean counter approaches to processes. Systems-Processes. What the competition is doing.

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Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. About the Author.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 76

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. In fact, many of the online survey companies (e.g. Best wishes Kerri.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

This includes the characteristics of addictive organizations, their processes, promises and forms. This chapter studies communications, thinking processes, management processes, self-inflicted crises and structural components of companies that go bad, or maybe never do what it takes to be good. About the Author.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

This includes the characteristics of addictive organizations, their processes, promises and forms. This chapter studies communications, thinking processes, management processes, self-inflicted crises and structural components of companies that go bad, or maybe never do what it takes to be good.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Unsuccessful marketing. Repairing ethically wrong actions. Chasing the wrong leads, prospects or markets. Poor premises, policies, processes, procedures, precedents and planning. Handle in Politically Correct Terms. The mark of an empowered team is its participation in this process. Poor location.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

By approaching the process with a realistic attitude, positive outcomes of future efforts will pay better dividends. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? Our research.

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