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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

Whether you are a start-up or a Procter & Gamble, the ethic of focusing on what you do best and excelling at it is the culture and the identity that sustains an organization’s success. The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people—at every level of the organization.

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Get inspired by these three pioneering, sustainable companies

Chartered Management Institute

As a result, a more sustainable, ethical operational approach is now just good business sense; minimising the risks of climate change to the business, meeting stakeholder and investor needs, and increasing consumer appeal. With under 100 employees, it is trying to change the financial system to focus on a more sustainable future.

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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. This resulted in some lawyers admitting that they had altered advice to clients when they felt they were unhappy, despite this violating their ethics.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards. In contrast, IBM kept laser-like focus on building the global organization to execute its strategy, and financial results followed. Microsoft's enterprise services stagnated. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products.

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The Case for Corporate Disobedience

Harvard Business Review

Like a startup, you have to get the market fit right, but you also have to fight the corporate systems at the same time, dealing with the rules, procedures, and approval processes that every big company has in place to support its strategy.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

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What is HRIS? Your Guide to HRIS Features and Benefits

HR Digest

Its strategy, not just admin. HRIS future trends will pivot on ethics: can tech amplify humanity, not erase it? Statistics: AIHRs 2024 survey found self-service portals boost engagement scores by 25%, a perk amplifying in 2025 as autonomy becomes the ultimate tool. Targeted training lifts output by 10% in Q1 2025.