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Unlocking Corporate Social Responsibility: 10 Impactful Ways to Give Back as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

As a business, you can help them by making regular contributions or sponsoring their projects. List down the local charities and nonprofits, and mark the ones that share the same values and business ethics as you. Every organization has a supply chain that affects multiple stakeholders.

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Motivate with a Memorable “Vision Phrase” that Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

The foundation is projected to touch the lives of 50,000 children by 2014. When Chuck Schwab started The Charles Schwab Corporation, his vision was to provide “the most useful and ethical financial services in the world.” To be memorable, a phrase that reflects your vision must be brief and aspirational. Reinforce it Often.

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The (New) Skills You Need to Succeed in Sales

Harvard Business Review

Instead, we see more people from technical or operations backgrounds such as project management, R&D, or supply chain moving into sales. Cognitive skills and capabilities include innovative problem solving; the ability to identify opportunities; the ability to work under pressure; and mental toughness and resilience.

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Never Take Your Suppliers For Granted

Strategy Driven

If you are known as a client that pays their invoices within a matter of days, if you have clear and consistent communication and you’re also forthright about your needs surrounding a new project, then you are both an exciting and dependable client to work for.

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The CEO of Coca-Cola on Using the Company’s Scale for Good

Harvard Business Review

We can fund projects at levels that make a real difference. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work. Working with the Tanzania’s Medical Stores Department and others, we were able to share our supply chain expertise, reduce medicine bottlenecks, and improve distribution as a whole.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

When contaminated meat or vegetables are recalled, consumer advocates demand more transparency from food supply chains. Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Supply chain management should be implemented. Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Do the measures address both internal management and external perceptions and accountabilities? Quality management should be implemented. Speed of order entry.