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Consulting Ethics Concern, Once Again

The Consultants Peer Group

Lack of consulting ethics once again. Over the past week both NPR and Wall Street Journal have reviewed the book, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies , by authors Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington in which they skewer the consulting industry.

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How to Vet a Corporate Intelligence Vendor

Harvard Business

In 2022, global cyber threat intelligence was estimated to be a $4.93 billion industry, and U.S. But how do you know whether an intelligence vendor aligns with your company’s needs, risk tolerance, and ethics? But how do you know whether an intelligence vendor aligns with your company’s needs, risk tolerance, and ethics?

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2022, at the age of 46, I interviewed for a marketing executive position with a tool manufacturer. They wanted practice experience with a substantial understanding of their clients’ industries — CHECK! This bias, predicated on age, undermines the principles of equity and diversity with potential ethical issues.

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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. Absolutely not!

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3 Steps Toward Getting Your Workforce Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Right

Organizational Talent Consulting

There is a growing interest and concern with ethics associated with AI models. Every industry (except one) increased AI-related postings year over year, even those that are not directly associated with AI. Every AI-related skill category grew in 2022, with Python being the most requested AI skill. Chui, E, Roberts, R.,

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A survey of 800 leaders and employees across 17 industries revealed the following reactions to a lack of civil treatment in the workplace: 48% decreased effort. Evaluate the ethical consequences of your decisions and create an open-door policy allowing employees to provide input where their voices and concerns can be heard. Sull, C.,

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Is AI Technology on the Verge of Displacing Humans?

Effective Managers

ChatGPT 3, released in 2022, was trained on data collected in 2020. The Ethics of AI We need to understand what these tools are and how they can be used. These are ethical breaches. The good or bad of the use of this tool comes down to the ethics of the person using the tool. We should be worried about ethics in society.

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