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Governance: Transforming Organizational Culture

Tom Spencer

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. However, such perceptions fail to capture the potential impact of governance to influence the actions, cognitions, and emotions of individuals.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

Effective governance serves as the bedrock for organizations, providing a framework for sound decision-making, personal accountability, and strategic direction. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where disruption and uncertainty are the norm, robust governance structures have never been more important.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Lovely writes openly his experiences working in the $15 Billion annual revenue (2022) firm and recommends an approach to more accountability, especially in government arenas. Lovely has since left McKinsey.

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Are CEOs Less Ethical Than in the Past?

Strategy+Business

This year's CEO Success study shows that boards of directors, institutional investors, governments, and the media are holding chief executive officers to a far higher level of accountability for corporate fraud and ethical lapses than in the past. percent of all successions in 2007-11 to 5.3 percent in 2012-16.

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5 Levers for Creating a Culture of Accountability

Organizational Talent Consulting

When lacking, company performance and culture suffer. An organizational culture of accountability is architected. Here are five psychological levers for creating workplace accountability and making it a part of your company culture. In a toxic culture without accountability, employees ignore, deny, blame and play the victim.

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How SMEs can welcome the decade of Organizational Culture

Asamby Consulting

Welcoming the decade of Organizational Culture. This article will explore the rise of organizational culture as a key element for healthy organizations, and how it can become a competitive advantage for SMEs. One culture is always present. In which way did it affect work ethic and performance throughout the year?

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The rules and procedures that govern how organizations use technology to conduct business, Information technology (IT) policies are crucial to security, efficiency and productivity and shouldn’t be considered optional, static or one-size-fits all.