Business & Leadership

Code of Ethics Implementation

Implementing a Code of Ethics

While many companies post and profess to use a Code of Ethics, this may leave some areas lacking or simply not followed by current staff. A Code of Ethics may be an adequate starting point, but organizations should consider a more formal training program. For example, a written Code may not provide the details or …

What is Business Ethics

What is Business Ethics?

Ethical Principles Practiced in Business Business ethics is gaining a lot of relevance in 21st-century businesses. It is concerned with how the company relates to the outside world. Business ethics is a form of applied ethics that scrutinizes ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that occur in a business environment. In the more conscientious …

Teaching Businesses Ethics

Teaching Ethics is an Issue for All Businesses

Universities are Focused on Teaching Ethics which Helps Businesses Universities play a major role in the education of employees when dealing with ethics. Because of major scandals over the last few years, this role is even more important. Education and ethics often go hand in hand in the workplace. But many businesses over the last …

How to Make Meetings less Daunting and More Exciting

American professionals conduct approximately 11 million meetings a day and 220 million meetings per year. Employees spend 10% more time in meeting with meeting length estimated at 31 minutes on average. What does it entail? Wasteful meetings are one of the top reasons that hinder productivity at work. Make your meetings more productive, interactive, and …

Top Strategies to Tick off your To Do List

It is common for professionals to create a daily to-do list that they aim to accomplish at the end of the workday. However, not all follow through their to-do list.  A large number of professionals admit that they are unable to complete their list at the end of the day. If you are one of …

The keys to 21st-century corporate success

For most businesses and business leaders, the golden age of the 1990s seems a lifetime away. Beset by uncertainty, suspicion, fear and financial turmoil, CEOs have to adjust to a whole new world. After the scandals and uncertainty of the past year, there is an understandable impulse for businesses to keep their heads down and …

Reclaiming the board’s agenda

Loss of trust in the business world has brought us to a turning point in the relationship between the board, the management team, regulators and the investment community. But it is vital that confidence returns to replace the current atmosphere of caution. Alan Bird, Robin Buchanan and Paul Rogers ask what company boards must do …

Risk-taking in a tentative world

We should not avoid taking risks just because the world suddenly seems more dangerous. On the contrary, we need to take them more than ever. But we must make a better job of deciding which risks to take, managing the consequences of those decisions and becoming resilient to the risks that we cannot control. That …

Managing corporate risk and reputation

These days a successful CEO has to operate more like a national president or foreign minister, exercising hard power and soft power in equal measure. In the 21st century, a company’s ability to stand out will be defined more by its relationships with the outside world and its image than by its quarterly numbers and …

Learning the art of leading people

True leadership is not about prestige, power or status, says Marilyn Carlson Nelson. It is about personal responsibility and personal engagement. Leading people in a fast-changing business world is no longer about command and control. It is about collaboration and community The ancients, gazing at the stars, often saw very different things. Some looked skywards …