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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. It sought to make things better. References Holiday, R.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images. and $2 trillion globally.

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Job Security for the Ineffective

Martinka Consulting

.” You could substitute business owner telling a customer the price went up because of an operations issue no fault of the customers and get the same response. They’re hosting community meetings to discuss their $50 billion, yes, that’s a B, train project over the next 25 years. Don’t you wish you could do that?

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

If you believe that training is expensive, it is because you do not know what ignorance costs." Leaders need employees that go beyond what is expected in ways that contribute to the organization’s results and make the communities where they operate better. Evaluate the ethical consequences of decisions. & & Fulmer, R.

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How Managers Should Respond When Bribes Are Business as Usual

Harvard Business

Another is to offer to create more jobs or provide more training or technical service than your competitors are offering. At that point, everybody will lean in together to fix that problem in an ethical and compliant manner, even if it takes considerably longer,” Bistrong says. “That’s enlightened management.”

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate. These ethical failures are often not the result of one "bad actor" alone but systemic issues. Modern leaders are asking, can organizational culture be changed?

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