the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
How can you condemn cheating in a game where the players are expected to "steal" bases? David Jacobson has done a remarkable job in researching and writing this week's business of baseball feature package, talking about salaries, the revenue sharing model and the MLB's legally sanctioned monopoly...
Concerned about your workplace's ethics? The ethics of your leadership? You could be in the wrong place, say Ronald Howard and Clinton Korver, authors of "Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life." The book shows how to become...
One of Levi Strauss & Co.'s first great acts of corporate responsibility came just a short while after the company began to supply Comstock Lode miners with tough-skinned work duds in the 1870s. The original Levi's reinforced pants included metal rivets not only on the pockets but also one located...
The great majority of companies can't afford a full-time on-board ethicist to deal with delicate conflicts of interest and other moral dilemmas. Most employees turn to their Human Resources departments. So a study released this month by The Society for Human Resource Management SHRM and The Ethics...
Granted. It's not scientific. But by looking at BNET users' top search terms, you can pretty much get a feel for what's hot in the world of management day-by-day. Today's top search terms show a marked trend toward organization and structure, with five out of the top...
Late last week we launched Stirling Performance, our resource for news and commentary on business issues affecting management and leadership in the United Kingdom. Afternoon tea is, of course, one of the UK's many gifts to the world, along with fish and chips, Fawlty Towers and the...
This weekend we added a new blog to BNET Insight, Sterling Performance. This new resource will provide incisive news and commentary on business issues affecting management and leadership in the United Kingdom. Sterling Performance aims to be a veritable MI6 of business, connecting the big corporate stories...
After reading my little rant about Yahoo losing its mojo, James Whitley over at GoLifeMoble.com wrote a very thoughtful riff on it. "What caught my attention [about Mattis' rant]," says Whitley, "was the all-too-familiar telltale signs of an organization that had lost its way." ...
Once, back in my consulting days, I was pitching a client in London – and choking terribly, blathering on about how my agency could help make the prospective client into a "thought leader." Fortunately, a friendly member of the client's team was somehow able to make...
Yesterday we relaunched or ethics column, "Where's the Line," asking you to weigh in on the big business ethics questions of the day. Our topic was "racism in the office," and it has, perhaps not surprisingly, proved to be a lively one. So far the discussion has gleaned...
"I'm talkin' about ethics..." So begins the 1990 Coen Brother's picture, "Miller's Crossing," a noir tale of Chicago mobsters rife with ethical dilemmas concerning honor among thieves. In the film, rival gangland bosses vie for control of a city while grappling with conflicting loyalties, obligations and opportunities for...
Memory and Muscle directed and produced by Michael Ostroff for CUPW, 1996 In the mid-60s a young generation of Canadian workers touched off a wave of militancy that did not end until the late seventies. Wildcat strikes were not uncommon, directed as much...
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