Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

So whilst vision or mission articulates goals and tactics for achieving those goals, purpose defines the essence of the business – why it exists, who it exists for and how it makes the a difference in the world. Buyers Reward You – 80% of the general population would rather pay more for products and services produced ethically.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. They approach their work with honesty, and having made a commitment, keep their word. They follow through on their commitments.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

when leaders move on – how do other leaders step up…or not) - Leadership tactics that Engage – How can we raise the level of employee engagement (during these dis-engaged times) Thanks for inviting us to weigh in. link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Even more, we have a moral and ethical business obligation to be savvy in how the world works. It fills a strategic tactical need of operating in today’s business setting. Secure contracts and commitment. The fact is, global business is the new norm. Its training isn’t an optional area of casual interest for employees.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s getting from where they are to where they want to be strategically, tactically, organizationally, developmentally, and most importantly relationally. You won’t ever engage Gen Y, you won’t unlock their creativity, passion, intelligence and commitment if you don’t respect them.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. Employees trust and want to work for an organization with high ethical standards, and work for a leader who lives by those standards. Meet your commitments. Don’t make a commitment you cannot keep. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In order to succeed and thrive in modern society, all private and public sector entities must live by codes of ethics. Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. It is during the downturns that strong, committed and ethical businesses renew their energies to move forward. It helps to manage relations with stakeholders.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country. There isn’t a simple recipe to follow , but there are principles, concepts, tactics, and tools that make success more likely. CONTINUE YOUR DEMING JOURNEY.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

The use of underdog narratives is a popular leadership tactic that has been proven effective in motivating teams and organizations. However, Apple’s commitment to innovation and its collective underdog identity revolutionized the way people interact with technology.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.”

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. What you can and are committed to accomplishing…rather than what mysteriously lies ahead.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We want them to be loyal, grateful, ethical, engaged, and kind to the people they work with and for. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Emotions are contagious; we catch flyby emotions more quickly than we catch a cold. Besides, we want people to feel when it suits us, right?

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Mark Sanborn

MAY 10, 2019

Apple, for example, has committed to sourcing 100 percent sustainable paper packaging, to protect the world’s remaining virgin forests. As a leader today, you must commit to face-to-face (or at a very minimum, ear-to-ear) interactions with those you lead, no matter how hard it may be to pull yourself away from urgent matters.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The StrategyDriven website was created to provide members of our community with insights to the actions that help create the shared vision, focus, and commitment needed to improve organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior results. The Advisor’s Corner – Can Ethics Be Learned?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2014

Whatever methods (legal and ethical of course) you use, you need to discover at least these SIX key things about your candidates BEFORE you hire. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. It is mind-boggling! Please email your questions to TheAdvisorsCorner@StrategyDriven.com.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

This requires planning, purpose and commitment. How you fulfill commitments and pro-bono work speaks to the kind of professional that you are. The person who never has aggressively pursued a dream or mounted a series of achievements cannot understand the quest of one with a committed dream. You perform your best work for free.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country. There isn’t a simple recipe to follow but there are principles, concepts, tactics and tools that make success more likely.

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Deming Long-term Tactics Proposal 28

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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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. When an employee sees you committing any act of dishonesty or two-facedness, they’ll assume that you’ll do the same to them. Sometimes this strategy even works.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

And, the mission critical nature of credibility cannot be overstated, as it establishes a company or brand’s integrity, reliability, validity, soundness and a host of other image-including indicators of an entity’s moral and ethical code, and the standards by which it operates.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Willingness requires complete and never-ending commitment by management. Without employee communications, suggestion boxes, publications, training videos, speeches and other professionally prepared instruments, the company is fooling itself and its customers about the commitment to quality. ’ These actions include: Education.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This requires planning, purpose and commitment. How you fulfill commitments and pro-bono work speaks to the kind of professional that you are. The person who never has aggressively pursued a dream or mounted a series of achievements cannot understand the quest of one with a deeply committed dream.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Do something well and commit to long-term excellence. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Conceptualize your own personal goals. Understand conflicting societal goals. Fit your dreams into the necessities and realities of the real world. Find your own niche, do your thing.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. When an employee sees you committing any act of dishonesty or two-facedness, they’ll assume that you’ll do the same to them. Sometimes this strategy even works.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Commitment toward collaboration and working with other companies. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Organization predicts and stays ahead of trends. The company leads the industry. Everything that goes on outside our company affects our business. Willingness to invest in research. The Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I appreciate that he goes against the cutting-quality tactics that, unfortunately, I've seen so many companies turn to in an age where fast fashion is the norm. In my many years in this business, I've found that companies have a much better chance of making it long-term if they stay committed to well-thought-out and authentic design.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Loyalty manifests in many different ways: trust that’s earned through repeated demonstration of a dedicated work ethic, commitment to a shared mission, and allegiance to the firm. It turned out to be a really effective tactic, because we could be quite compelling about each other’s accomplishments.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Although we examine stock options grants as the primary mechanism for employers to discourage whistleblowing, there are others tactics firms can use as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Of course companies have distinct quality or R&D departments and professionals, but the most committed companies drive the thinking into every aspect of the business. No, I'm talking here about the more prosaic, everyday, tactical, blocking-and-tackling of business.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Based upon many hours of advisory with C-Level clients, here are the two major tenets that bubble to the top: IQ – Intelligence Quotient (or Tactical Intelligence) You have to have the chops, the intellect, the experience, and knowledge to make it through the first hurdle. What are some of the techniques used? It’s that simple.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Savvy working parents know that it takes more than a home office to make remote work work for their organizations, careers, and families: It takes conscious effort and some specific, effective tactics — which you can start using today. Demonstrate your commitment. Frame it in business terms. Control the controllables.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

However, strict compliance, backed by a serious commitment to train all employees on both international and local laws (which means conducting a continuous dialogue, not simply checking a box), and instilling ethical corporate values is rated higher by our leaders by a ratio of almost 7:1. You have to comply. One executive at a U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For example, Starbucks sources all its European espresso beans from fair trade certified producers, and Dutch company Fairphone sells the world’s first entirely fair trade Android phone, with batteries made from ethically mined minerals. But for impact sourcing to spread, it needs more attention and corporate commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters. Rotten to the Core.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2014

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

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Ethics Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Strategic Planning 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

But many don’t have one, instead adopting only defensive, short-term, or narrowly self-interested “government relations” tactics. Even with strong CEO direction, subordinate business leaders who are crucial to its success may not share the commitment or invest in the expertise or understand the time required.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” Usually, but not always, it requires a degree or certification, and credential of some kind.

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