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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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5 Entrepreneurship Skills You’ll Get from an MBA

Tom Spencer

The school environment helped them develop networks that played a key role in launching their enterprises. Appreciating the importance of ethics and reputation. The most valuable asset of a business is not its products, cash in the bank, computers, or proprietary data, but its reputation. Final thoughts.

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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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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

The primary goal of becoming a data-driven organization is to improve decision making, which in turn will provide customers with better products or services and as a result increase profitability and facilitate business growth. . Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. References .

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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.”

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. The project focused on redefining how a number of core activities were performed to both optimize production and improve depth and quality of analytics.

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A Leader’s #1 Task: Replicate Yourself!

Makarios Consulting

Leaders who express this complaint are often dominant personalities characterized by robust confidence, high intelligence, strategic brilliance, and a flawless work ethic. Make no mistake – these teams can be outstandingly productive with great execution, but there is one and only one leader. Everybody under them takes a passive role.