N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

Succession 417

Succession Ethics Diversity Objective 417

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. I have never seen a healthy board/organization relationship where board members got too much in the weeds of daily operations.

Conflict of Interest 73

Conflict of Interest Long-term Learning-by-Doing Edmondson 73

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. And it requires a constant vigilance to make sure that you don’t get into legal or ethical grey areas or lose sight of the company’s interests.

Innovation 14

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a company, whenever you undertake any significant, new initiative in a foreign setting, whether it’s developing an HR system, investing in a new technology platform, or scaling up operations that involves hiring new workers, make sure you filter what you’re doing through the logic of the new cultural system.

Process 14

Process Globalization Conflict of Interest Policies 14

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).

Ethics 15

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. Many of the more venial sins are the result of a widespread lack of understanding and education about Wikipedia’s standards about conflicts of interest.

PR 8

PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

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. Organizations that operate as a collection of independent business units have a different cultural problem relative to information security.

Policies 8

Policies Risk Management Conflict of Interest Resistance 8