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Business ethics are about the morally functional nature of our business relationships. Because these relationships are such an important part of daily life, giving them the attention and care they deserve is crucial to an organization’s success.

Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Ethics

In the wake of all those corporate scandals, B-schools are emphasizing ethics and responsibility. It’s a sea change in business education.

Editor’s Note: Also see “What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples? Readers Respond” by HBS Working Knowledge:
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Merritt | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Ethics, MBA Related

Here are the five naked truths about women in business. Together they add up to one big message: The future of business depends on women.

Content: Article | Author: Margaret Heffernan | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Women in Business

The purpose of all rulers is the well being of those they rule.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

Content: Book | Author: Tom Terez | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

We think, and with those thoughts, we create. We create the world we live in … We harvest in life, only and exactly, what we sow in our minds.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Life, Personality / Behavior

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves. Nearly every psychological problem – from anxiety and depression to self-sabotage at work or at school, from fear of intimacy to chronic hostility – is traceable to low self-esteem. In the chaotic and competitive world we face today, both personal happiness and economic survival rest on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: CEO Refresher, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem | Subject: Personality / Behavior

“My thesis is that we are in transition from the Traditional, through the Transitional and into the rapidly emerging Transformational organizational culture model. To succeed, many managers and professionals will have to adapt to the inconsistencies associated with working in Mixed Culture organizations. The ability to read these mixed signals and to build effective power and influence support systems is crucial to maximizing career and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert F. Pearse | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

It’s your moment. You have 10 minutes to wow a captive audience of venture capitalists. How do you make the most of that time? If you’re one of the 23 women entrepreneurs recruited by Springboard Enterprises, you spend five grueling weeks in the nonprofit’s boot camp crafting the perfect pitch.

Find out what A.G. Breitenstein and two other female entrepreneurs discovered about themselves and their … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Susan Greco | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Women in Business

Voyant Technologies was struggling to get ahead — until the CEO persuaded his engineers and his MBAs to work together.

Content: Article | Author: Stephanie Clifford | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Best Practices, Organizational Behavior

The average life span of a Fortune 500 company is less than half a century, yet there also are corporations around the world that have been in business for 200, 500, even 700 years. Arie de Geus, a retired Royal Dutch/Shell Group executive, maintains after studying both extremes that the most enduring treat their companies as “living work communities” rather than pure economic machines. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Arie De Geus | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

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Content: Book | Authors: Christopher A. Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Decision Making, Management

Gender impacts wage, as many studies have proven. But Professors Marta Elvira and Mary Graham take that fact one step further and ask why. In this recent research, they consider the degree of formalization of the pay type, exploring the link between numbers of men and women in a job and the level of earnings. Discover the direct implications for the design of pay structures … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Marta Elvira, Mary Graham | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Women in Business

High office teaches decision-making not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Decision Making, Leadership

90% of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reason for supporting our predilections.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Decision Making, Personality / Behavior

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Charles Handy takes a look at organization reinvention by considering elephants and fleas and federalism.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Handy | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Ambition, Personality / Behavior