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Creating Leadership Trust that Inspires People

Rick Conlow

Products, the balance sheet and customers are the priority. This means better customer service, greater productivity, and increased sales. Give it a “thumbs up” for focusing on ethics and character. As a result, business executives are rated in the bottom one third. Therefore, the union went on strike.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures?