CEO Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

They do change order management for construction projects. Wondering if he perhaps has a conflict of interest with his investment in Coke and See's Candy. One of my investments - Renomi.com has a new website. You mean people make changes after they start their projects? Lots of Coke and candy.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

They do change order management for construction projects. Wondering if he perhaps has a conflict of interest with his investment in Coke and See''s Candy. One of my investments - Renomi.com has a new website. You mean people make changes after they start their projects? Lots of Coke and candy.

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Conflict of Interest Competitive Advantage Creativity Construction 100

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

.” It helps prevent problems between the people who own the company (shareholders) and the people who run it (management). They have less conflict of interest but are not always capable,” the researchers explain. “Subordinate managers run the company day to day.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 18, 2021

Manage expectations. If you have a personal bias or a conflict of interest, make it known. Keep your promises. Every time you give your word, you’re putting your honor on the line. Given that, only make promises you can keep. A promise should be as binding as a contract. Underpromise and overdeliver. Minimize surprises.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Are the any conflicts of interest? There are Government and Corporate bonds, and like the stock market, if you are going to buy corporate bonds, you need to check that there are no reputational issues or conflicts of interest. You should never go full steam ahead into any financial decision.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JULY 30, 2024

Manage expectations. In addition, if you have a personal bias or a conflict of interest, make it known. Reveal the reasoning behind your message to ensure your intent is understood. Put things in writing to avoid misunderstandings. Summarize your thoughts once rather than sending information piecemeal. Avoid jargon.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. It is time for all parties to revisit those policies and replace them with rules that recognize both true conflicts and true confluences of interest. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Does the author or researcher have a personal bias or a conflict of interest? Does the sponsor have a second agenda or a vested interest in the outcome? Is the sample biased? Did the author falsify or fabricate the data, omit key information, or distort the findings? Know When It’s Time to Reverse Course Warning….

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HR Digest

APRIL 8, 2023

Building a Culture of Ethical Decision-Making and Compliance Building a culture of ethics and compliance with workplace regulations requires a multifaceted approach that involves HR, management, and employees at all levels of the organization. HR can help to build this culture by taking the following steps: 1.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 28, 2022

This includes being too kind and not managing conflict. While no board member should strive to stir conflict or dissention, pretending to agree just to “get along” isn’t helpful to the organization. Unhealthy personal interests. 10 of the biggest mistakes boards fall into: Masked agreement.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This should be done after the proper performance management process has been taken. Some of these fair dismissal examples include: A serious conflict of interest. On the topic of performance, an employer can decide to dismiss an employee if they are not meeting requirements based on their performance. An ended contract.

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HR Digest

JULY 11, 2020

However, it is entitled to refuse the employees’ choice of support person if any conflict of interest arises. A person from the management team would be the best choice as the representative. Internal Representative. Objectives of the Meeting. Things to follow during the Meeting.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Executives, managers, supervisors, and individual contributors are held accountable for their actions and contributes both positively and negatively. StrategyDriven Recommended Practices Highly accountable organizations benefit from the premise that there is no free lunch.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2012

When you are part of a senior management team running a large business, it can be easy to become insulated from the day-to-day realities of how your company is handling its customer base. Complimentary Resource – Safety Management Barometer #1: Employee Feedback (Webinar). 10 Ways to Improve Click Through Rates.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Sometimes the interviewer might be very specific about the context they want to discuss , such as “a time when you disagreed with a manager or senior” or “when you failed to meet your sales quota.” Your task could also reflect the process of identifying where and when the conflict started. What did you do? How did it go?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Included in the resolution was a servicing agreement between the FDIC and NCNB Corporation of Charlotte, NC, the acquiring bank of First Republic’s assets, which required the FDIC to cover costs associated with managing the troubled asset pool. billion in management fees to NCNB. Managing the Crises , p. References.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

These risks, however, can be managed with well-crafted guidelines. Air Force, for example, highlight the importance of exercising good judgment, showing respect, refraining from disclosing confidential information, avoiding conflicts of interest, and representing opinions as purely one's own.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Three findings seem particularly relevant, and they identify some effective practices regarding how to communicate about values that every manager can implement. This is a worrisome example of just how easily our own behaviors can be swayed by the actions of the people around us, like our co-workers, managers and colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

It is a fight that every manager is familiar with, but nowhere is the challenge bigger than when the existing strategy is not aligned with the demands of the situation you are in. Our job as senior managers is not to prevent all forms of rule breaking. Innovation Managing people Strategy' An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Do management professors “believe that the regard of their peers is more important than studying what really matters to executives who can put their ideas into practice?” Business faculty create a body of knowledge that is scientifically novel, interesting, and important. ” Bennis and O’Toole wrote.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

With all due respect to hedge fund managers, the nature of their job is take large positions in a few companies, do everything possible to raise the share price, then get out. This means that hedge fund interests clash with those of long-term, diversified, prosocial investors. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Since companies test their own products—an obvious conflict of interest—they naturally design clinical trials to maximize evidence that they are beneficial and minimize evidence they are harmful. It's so obvious, and employers think they are managing drug costs through their pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

The accounting firms that audit financial statements were subjected to tougher conflict-of-interest rules and oversight by a new federal agency. Such regulations, if they succeed in increasing the information flow between managements and markets, are also good news for investors in general.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Negotiation is a method for resolving conflicts of interest, not for adjudicating who is at fault. Most people, once they understand this, are willing to exchange concessions in order to satisfy their underlying interests. She can ultimately be trusted to act in her own interest. Stop making concessions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

But waiting until you’re calm, and framing how the decision is bad for the company — and not just you — will put you on a more productive path, says Jeanne Brett, director of Kellogg School of Management’s Dispute Resolution Research Center. The wrong way: “I just found out that Peter got double the raise I got.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2018

Sometimes, due to breakdowns of self-regulation or conflicts of interests, you might have occasional “blips.” Our research also encourages organizations to implement training programs to help managers improve their leadership and interpersonal skills and curb abusive behavior in the first place.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

But they can still play a useful role in managing your messages. An assistant can reduce the burden of email management in ways automated systems can’t, be they third-party plugins or rules and filters that you set up within your inbox. Now we all use email, and assistants are a seemingly rare commodity. The decision to delegate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Some elements may be changeable and some will not be negotiable at all — for example laws around hiring and firing and working after hours, attitudes around conflict of interest in procurement, and accounting practices — but it’s critical to recognize and take this into account when doing your cultural inventory.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. Acknowledging the risks and inherent conflicts-of-interest surrounding retired assets will result in more effective ITAD policies and adequate safeguards. An IT director was suspected of taking them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

You’ve probably encountered managers you admire more for their technical skills than for their actual leadership skills. In other words, organizations manage careers so that everyone “rises to the level of their incompetence.” And if so, how do organizations manage around the Peter Principle?

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Incentives Career Conflict of Interest Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

When managers spot these sorts of problems on the horizon, a deal that potentially will create value may not get done because the contract is bound to be incomplete. The danger is that the contract will not specify how to resolve conflicts in the future. Invest resources in relationship management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. From a historical perspective, the idea that managers in organizations have a single, dominant duty — to achieve or maximize economic returns — is a striking development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

By tackling the job in partnership with a still-effective chief executive, the board leader can help root the process deeply in the company’s management development, preventing succession from becoming an event-driven crisis. Review outside consultants carefully to prevent conflicts of interest.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

In such cultures, employees often have tacit, if not explicit, approval to deploy the most expedient information management solution to the exclusion of more secure but less convenient alternatives. This can result in disjointed security solutions that are difficult to manage, thereby increasing risk.

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