Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

So getting back to culture, our favorite definition of culture, if you listen to the show for a while, you know, this comes from marketing guru Seth Godin, and he says that culture is simply people like us do things like this. What’s going on is that invisible barrier, that conflict. And those can clash.

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Quality Ethics Learning-by-Doing System 234

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The study, which was conducted with the European Commission’s Joint Research Council, suggests that employers should be extremely wary of sacrificing ethics in the search for greater efficiency, with employee engagement and productivity declining if the issue is not managed well. Keeping an eye.

Organization 115

Organization Ethics Resistance Technology 115

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 16, 2024

Moral values Among men aged 50 or more, three sets of moral values were identified: “worker’s ethic,” “getting-by ethic,” and “provider’s ethic.” The “getting-by ethic” focuses on earning a livelihood to support the family, often through any available work.

Ethics 69

Ethics Entrepreneur Resistance Morale 69

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

However, following a predetermined standard can enable you to measure your product against the market alternatives. There is a lot of talk about how and why you should resist the temptation to allow experience bias to impact your decisions on product management. Use experience as an asset.

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Products Productivity Benchmarking Management 112

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

But, when the time comes for the cows to be transported to market, herding can become a challenge. It starts out rather peaceful; but as cows are steered from the open pasture into small holding pens and then forced to go up a loading chute and onto the truck, it requires low voltage electric prods to convert their resistance into compliance.

Policies 150

Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The data shows that the sons and daughters of high-status parents have many more advantages in the labor market than previous work believed. For instance, the Wings platform operates in London and aims to provide an ethical alternative to the various food delivery apps in existence today. What young people want.

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Long-term Career Education Operations 128

Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

I believe that hyper-relevance, ultra-personalisation, collaboration, ethics and sustainability are the crucial foundations of success. XR use nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse. For strategists, the implications are profound.

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Crisis Brand Ethics Trends 76

Steve Farber

MARCH 6, 2017

Resist the inclination to put strict parameters around picking a protégé — or what I call a GTY relationship, short for Greater Than Yourself. You want a protégé with the energy, drive, and work ethic to follow through on things and take full advantage of what you have to give them. Who will use what you’re giving?

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Mentor Advice Ethics Learning-by-Doing 67

Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

When someone consistently displays ethical behavior , you can predict their future conduct with some degree of confidence. If you view customers as long-term assets rather than immediate sales transactions, and develop policies based on optimizing customer value, they will reward you with increased market share and profits.

Morale 88

Morale Reputation Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 88

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior. In any organization, there’s always resistance to change. It all boils down to how you treat people.

How To 115

How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 115

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.

Ethics 17

Ethics Environment Absenteeism Reputation 17

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. by Hank Moore.

Business Development 50

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

These are designed to familiarize new employees with the company’s historical background, core values, ethics, and overarching culture. A user-friendly platform reduces the learning curve and minimizes resistance, encouraging active engagement from the get-go.

Software 52

Software Efficiency Process Training 52

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

Ethics 8

Ethics Marketing Brand Morale 8

Steve Farber

MARCH 25, 2009

To their culture, their work ethic, their camaraderie. No matter the industry, market, or type of company you work in, you’ve had to deal with some combination of the classic workplace obstacles, issues, and barriers to a satisfying, fulfilling leadership experience. .&# We all know it. We’re all human, just like Ken.

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Mentor Advice Bottom-up Crisis 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

But as business became more global, spreading to emerging and developing markets in pursuit of cheap resources and labor, corporate leaders entered countries with weak institutions, bureaucracy and corruption. Who were they to impose the values of their home market on another country? That would be ethical imperialism.

Globalization 15

Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Most of today's markets have all the competition they can handle. Companies looking for significant top-line growth need to find, and then focus their business on, something we have identified in our research as a " big-enough market insight ," or BEMI. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

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Trends Short-term Resistance Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 14

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To resist doing what everyone else is doing or what you are expected to do requires courage. Lafley has noted, the best time to gain market share is when your competitors are in retreat. When I asked why the company had done something that caused so much damage, the reply was that it was expected by Wall Street and his CEO peers.

CEO 15

CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

But I also like it because it captures one fundamental obstacle to innovation that all would-be disruptors must be prepared to face: the potentially hostile response of incumbents who don't want to see their market advantages threatened. Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. There's nothing new here.

Innovation 15

Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. largely represented departures from our traditional community banking model, a model based on lending in the markets where we live and work to people and enterprises whom we know. That we resisted the temptation to the extent that we did is a source of at least some consolation for me.

Banking 17

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Executives no longer sit behind closed doors,” one consultant said; instead they must be “team-oriented, capable of multitasking continuously, leading without rank, resisting stress, ensuring that subordinates do not suffer burnout—and do all of this with a big smile in an open-plan office.”

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Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 13

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Restructuring a company to focus on sustainability doesn’t happen overnight, so how long did it take to get everyone on board and how did you deal with any resistance to change? Because of this importance, we didn’t really experience any resistance. We also have ethical drivers for our sustainability work.

CEO 14

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Fourth, evaluating “scholarship” primarily by counting professors’ “A” journal publications also could encourage academics to engage in questionably ethical research practices in order to produce results that will be accepted by these journals. Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

Metrics 14

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 14

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Accelerating globalization, technology convergence, volatile world financial markets and demands for ethical, environmentally responsible business practices are presenting organizations and their leaders with unprecedented challenges. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. Don’t wait to act.

Competitive Advantage 267

Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The potential loss Apple would have sustained had it not caved and, in the view of many, compromised human rights interests , was huge — its access to the vast Chinese market for devices, as well as its manufacturing base there.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Many in the microcredit industry believed their own marketing and that limited their willingness and ability to engage in self-reflection, to see the problems of growing too fast, of client over-indebtedness, of political resistance. If borrowers were escaping poverty, then how could there be too much microcredit?

Microfinance 16

Microfinance Entrepreneur Crisis Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It has no central marketing, procurement, sales, HR, IT, or legal department. The ethical conduct of business is central to the company and its culture. Managers would benefit from figuring out what they might gain from resisting short-term pressures. Is ethical behavior being influenced by the tone at the top?

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Supply Chain Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind. The Silicon Valley software ethic of running experiments to fail fast and learn has been a cultural challenge for GE, where failure has been frowned upon.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. I rationalized that I’d only be rearranging market shares, I wouldn’t be expanding the market. They were young; they were eager; they wanted to do fine things.

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Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. Teachers have had enough. One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

I call the first couple of years in one’s career the Aspiration Phase, in which it’s all about exercising one’s intellectual and interpersonal energies, and bringing enthusiasm, work ethic, and energy to an organization. ” Instead, help them think through the tradeoffs they’ll have to make.

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Even the words we say on Twitter , the things we like on Facebook , the websites we tend to visit, and the sound of our voices can be turned into a fairly detailed psychological profile, and the potential for trading this data is by no means confined to the world of marketing.

Media 14

Media Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Analysis 14

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Corporate giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; along the way they failed to cope with rapid change. The change-makers are small- to medium-size enterprises that either lead niche categories or are hell-bent on knocking the big guy from the top rung of a mass market. Don’t resist starting in the sales department.

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Mass Marketing Bureaucracy Entrepreneur Class 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page.

PR 8

PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8