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How Should Change Leadership and Common Good Intersect?

Thin Difference

Common Good: Dignity and Ethics. Kipper (2017) points out how dignity is too often ignored as an ethical value, leaving injustices in place rather than stepping up to the challenges. Change leaders need to consider ethics and dignity in their actions, especially in workplaces. However, it cannot stop with personal reflection.

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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

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. There are many good reasons why diversity relates to your livelihood: Embracing diversity is politically correct. It makes good business sense.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. Politics' Obama proposed raising the minimum wage to $10.10, and will do so for federal workers by executive action.

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What Companies Have Learned from Losing Billions in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

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. of annual revenues from 2010 to 2014. Vetting Managers and Sub-Contractors for a Culture of Compliance.

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Getting More Black Women into the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

In late 2014, poised to publish a report on women’s ambition , we stumbled on a startling fact: black women are nearly three times more likely than white to aspire to a position of power with a prestigious title. The problem may lie in the constraints endemic to identity politics. Roughly twenty women helm a Fortune 500 company.

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Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities

Harvard Business Review

In his Nicomachean Ethics , he rejected that scientific knowledge alone could determine the affairs of the human social world, which he recognized as too complex and unpredictable to govern with certainty. It is not either/or, but both. Let me illustrate my point.

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Who’s Running Your Business in China?

Harvard Business Review

But Chinese employees have learned that the management skills and systems in multinationals in China come in many flavors, from the exceptional to the abysmal. I have lived in Beijing since 1990 and hired and managed many hundreds of Chinese people over the years. The work ethic of Chinese employees is still fierce.