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The Biggest Firms Are Most Likely To Commit Fraud

The Horizons Tracker

We might imagine that prestigious and high growth firms with excellent brands will be more inclined to toe the line, ethically speaking, for fear that their brands may be tarnished by any scandals. The researchers assessed the corporate profiles of 250 firms that were involved in financial securities fraud between 2005 and 2013.

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When Good Employees Do Bad: Six Surprising Behaviors that May Precede a Scandal

Leading Blog

Commitment, integrity and transparency keep an organizations core values aligned with each other because they serve as counterweights to our human tendencies to go off-track. Not so in 1996, when the company lost billions in government contracts for ethics violations after an employee stole 25,000 pages of proprietary documents from Lockheed.

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Servant Leadership Library

Modern Servant Leader

Jim Collins 2019 Other Business Balance Case for Servant Leadership The author argues that servant leadership is ethical, practical, and meaningful. Ethically intelligent people know how to use this awareness the right way. Ethical intelligence may be the most practical form of intelligence there is Ñ and the most valuable.

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

Put The Right Team On The Field - Take stock of your team and their strengths and weaknesses, and ask a few hard questions: Is everyone committed to the new year and the new plan? Ethical leadership calls for morals, fairness, caring, sharing, no false promises or unreasonable demands on others, etc. Fantastic post.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

When a Walmart lawyer in Mexico blew the whistle in 2005, senior officers both in Mexico and in the United States allegedly stopped two different efforts by other Walmart employees at headquarters to conduct a thorough and independent inquiry. Think GM and its delays in addressing problems with an ignition switch.).

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

Elliot Ross May 20, 2010 at 8:05 am In some cases – rather than use the word ‘can’t’ Have the balls (to borrow from the post) to say I ‘Won’t’ Maybe ethics, maybe legal. Judy Helfand May 20, 2010 at 8:07 am Stopped by as Lisa Petrilli tweeted about your post.