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Flourishing in a Social Enterprise World

Tom Spencer

Rise of Social Enterprise. The growing trend towards social enterprise could be a game changer. A social enterprise, in essence, is an organisation which is not run primarily for profit and is required to reinvest any profits to further its social aims. A world based on social enterprise may be closer than you think.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” You’ll Never Convince a Skeptic.

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Navigating Business Partnerships

Tom Spencer

If properly implemented and executed, partnerships can be an effective way to grow your enterprise without having to implement time consuming and difficult changes or having to make costly investments. If you enter into a partnership with someone who has no regard for ethics and integrity then you can expect strife.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

I further validated our findings through a battery of aptitude tests to discover that I thrive in positions offering social, creative/artistic, and enterprising roles where I can leverage inductive and deductive reasoning to solve problems and restore organizations. References De Botton, A. The School of Life: An Emotional Education.

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Why I'm Cynical about the Consulting Profession | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

« Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. Social Enterprise. Thus, my cynicism. Librarys Blogs.

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Foundations of Consulting ? Part 6: Good Reasons to Hire.

Consulting and Organizational Management

The organization’s previous attempts to meet its own needs were not successful, for example, the organization developed a Strategic Plan that was never implemented. Organization members continue to disagree about how to meet the need and, thus, bring in a consultant to provide expertise or facilitation skills to come to consensus. .