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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

GM market share fell from 62.6% According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, CEOs and other executives have the lowest emotional intelligence skills of all management levels. Covey, demonstrates that the lack of integrity and ethics causes problems for managers and companies all day long. Even today, GM has record recalls.

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As a Consultant, What's Your Blindside? - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

In my experience, they often conclude their clients have problems primarily with, for example, interpersonal conflicts, emotional intelligence and authenticity. I rely on my business acumen as a former executive, my emotional intelligence training/certification, and my overall leadership experience to suit my client’s needs.

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3 Ways AI Is Getting More Emotional

Harvard Business

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. The security sector also dabbles in Emotion AI to detect stressed or angry people. Systems that mimic and ultimately replace human-to- human interactions.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. An ethical compass. As computers become more capable, executives are realizing just how important ethics and the capacity for moral judgement are in the field of applied AI.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

What sets Columbia apart from the other schools on this list (beyond its renowned quant focus) is its Program on Social Intelligence (PSI), which teaches students the effect they have on other people and how to anticipate the emotional needs of the people around them.

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Why We’re So Hypocritical About Online Privacy

Harvard Business

The researchers were also able to predict, to some degree, personality traits, such as extraversion, conscientiousness, openness, emotional stability, and agreeableness. There’s a big difference between what companies could and should know.

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