In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2021

But although it’s important to be driven, motivated, and to have the right level of work ethic in order to thrive and excel at your career of choice, excessive stress is potentially deeply damaging, both in a personal and professional context. Get the right tools for the job, that can help you to streamline your operation.

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Stress Tips Management Tools 126

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s about creating a pathway for new hires to understand, adapt, and align with the company’s ethos, vision, and operational methodologies. These are designed to familiarize new employees with the company’s historical background, core values, ethics, and overarching culture.

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Software Efficiency Process Training 52

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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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior. In any organization, there’s always resistance to change. Be open and honest.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership requires a great deal of reflection in order to improve and change; yet we resist the idea of doing something that feels stagnant. we resist reflecting. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. We move forward.

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Self-aware Definition Learning-by-Doing Long-term 202

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. Of course, resistance to algorithms is difficult because we’re up against a sophisticated, secret system. What can be done? But it’s not futile, yet.

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How To Ethics Media Content 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. It is now clear that companies operating in China are kept on a short leash even when they comply with governmental demands.

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Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Goldman Sachs [is very big and is] proud of the way it operates.” People who were resistant to the values he was instilling are “no longer around.” Harry, who is not known for his modesty, didn’t think he could change the company value system. Harry told me “[It would] depend on the company, and how long the value system existed.

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CEO Resistance System Influence 36

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

. “In some cases, they enter into direct confrontation with the state, as for example when NGOs show resistance to various coercive measures taken by the authorities against rescue ships in the Mediterranean.”

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Morale Politics Policies Ethics 115

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

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Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

After surveying corruption experts and business executives (including one who went to jail for bribery) I identified four strategies: Have a resistance plan for bribe demands. At that point, everybody will lean in together to fix that problem in an ethical and compliant manner, even if it takes considerably longer,” Bistrong says.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Not so long ago, businesses were merely expected to conform to the laws and regulations of the countries in which they operated. That would be ethical imperialism. Every decision to resist corruption is an effort to forge a new norm for global business. Some corporate leaders even argued that it was a question of values.

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Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

How has Coca-Cola integrated these CSR principles into your operations? Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? Because of this importance, we didn’t really experience any resistance.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The picture that emerges is of leaders who worked hard but were too heads-down and narrowly focused on immediate operational, technical, or functional issues. Their ethics or integrity had been called into question. They were resistant to change, both personally and organizationally. What stopped them?

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Performance Review Review Ethics Resistance 12

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. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

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. They are the whole point of business."

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Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

I resisted the temptation to make it a “quiz” where a certain number of yeses totaled up to give you a red, yellow, or green light. 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. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Others emphasized that strategic thinking also calls for the ability to execute a vision, which one respondent called “operating savvy” and another defined as “a high standard in execution.” One said that hiring companies want “unquestioned ethics.”

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Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.” The Silicon Valley software ethic of running experiments to fail fast and learn has been a cultural challenge for GE, where failure has been frowned upon.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. That we resisted the temptation to the extent that we did is a source of at least some consolation for me. Why did M&T make such out-of-character investments? The funny thing is, in any other business, such talk would come across as whiny special pleading.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. I teach a course in strategic controls at the University of Portland. Fraudulent ac­counting that wiped out jobs and investors.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. by Hank Moore.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Several, such as Trump, still operate by the brain and muscle ethic. Don’t resist starting in the sales department. If it doesn’t, move on. Research the reputation and the modus operandi of the CEO. Beware the entrepreneur. Explore corporations that value diversity.

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Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. But we hope this statement is a first step toward a productive conversation about how ethical corporate communicators can productively serve the editor community.

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