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. Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. Unethical dealings for short-term gain do not pay off in the long-run.

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Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 50

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 17, 2019

Recently Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Jo Swinson urged parliament to ensure that any development of AI is done with ethics front and center. Despite these early use cases, the possibilities are far greater than are currently being explored, and as usage rises, so too do ethical and safety concerns. Safe use of AI.

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Ethics Committee Report Technology 64

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  Since new members of the House will be up for reelection in two years, they’re operating on a similar time frame.     Learn the rules behind committee assignments. .        Learn the rules behind committee assignments.   There’s a lot of sound advice there. 

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Executive Coaching Blog Open-book Letter 139

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. 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.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Support Local Charities and Nonprofits Charities and nonprofits operate with donations from other companies. List down the local charities and nonprofits, and mark the ones that share the same values and business ethics as you. Ensure equal hiring opportunity by setting up an unbiased interview and hiring committee.

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Supply Chain Ethics NGO Brand 83

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I was on the committee that wrote that legislation. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. This year is the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life.

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Diversity Open-book Budgeting Risk Management 84

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Exemplifying ethical behavior. I interfaced with many on behalf of corporate clients. Helping others.

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Strategic Planning Planning Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Hearings last month before the Senate’s banking committee and the House’s Financial Services Committee point to further dangerous cultural dynamics inside Wells Fargo. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011.

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Banking Leadership Committee Ethics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Palmisano has an engaging manner and keen sense of humor. When the U.S.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

Many love to boast when their revenues soar, or publicize the strategic restructuring of their organizational response committees (whatever that means). But often missing from a firm's communications is something absolutely fundamental to its operations: its values.

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Mission Statement Restructuring Committee Ethics 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What are the operational objectives which express those purposes? What are the operational objectives which express those purposes? How should executives be compensated based on success or failure in attaining the operational goals? customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics).

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Politics Execution Report Risk Management 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Its Remuneration Committee employs several key performance indicators (KPIs) to guide the compensation of senior executives.

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TSR Banking Incentives Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? Now is the time for directors and executive committees alike to re-balance the strategy-governance scale. It’s not surprising. I’m not against benchmarking and norming.

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Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. Early in its growth, an organization will customarily have a competent financial audit committee, even though financial controls are rather mundane.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue. The board’s audit committee did not keep minutes at all until the problems began at Tyco in 2002.

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Golden Parachute Committee Ethics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. Companies usually manage bribery and corruption risk through a mix of internal processes, certification requirements, and basic good practices throughout their operations — including with suppliers and vendors.

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Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. The Audit Committee on behalf of the board sets key compliance objectives for the next calendar year.

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Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. An obvious place is within an existing operational excellence or performance department. Whatever these may be, we strongly recommended two things: Have an ethics committee. Find the Right Home for the Team.

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Gentile has spent a great deal of her life in the classrooms of Harvard Business School and Babson College and from reading her book it seems that she thinks if her students know what ethical decision-making is, they will take action on what they think is right. However, in the Ask-Know-Do progression there is a huge gap between Know and Do.

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Ethics Self-aware Taylor Taylorism 102

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Making these decisions requires that directors have expertise, exercise informed judgment, and be guided by an ethical compass. This includes funding advertising that targets or promotes a specific candidate as long as it’s independent from the candidate and party committees.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Everyone will naturally think that the person sleeping with the boss will have the inside scoop on promotions, pay and information, and that undermines trust in leadership, cautions Robert Chestnut, Airbnb’s Chief Ethics Officer. Sometimes operating in different silos may also help if the relationship is going to be long term.

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Long-term Policies Committee Human Resources 83

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

How diverse is the planning committee? Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Does your strategic plan adequately describe what you do?

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. Just because you once spoke to their business club, attended a workshop with them or served on a volunteer committee, they keep coming back to you for free work. There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Social Networkers.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In response, the House of Representatives formed a special committee to investigate Taylor's system and its effect on workers. Although the Arsenal never resumed time studies, the operational improvements implemented by Taylor's engineers were maintained, and these made the factory so efficient that it became a model for the rest of the Army.

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Taylor Taylorism Committee Engineering 9