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#CrisisRoundup of Awesome Links: Week of October 27, 2014

Melissa Agnes

McGill PR Students Exhibit Strong – and Ethical – Crisis Communication Skills. The post #CrisisRoundup of Awesome Links: Week of October 27, 2014 appeared first on Agnes + Day. Articles By Melissa Agnes and from The Crisis Intelligence Blog. A Few Words From A Proud Canadian About #CanadaStrong. Must attend! Tweet #CrisisRoundup.

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Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance Manifesto

Steve Shu Consulting

As 2014 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on various books, presentations, research, tools and solutions, software and applications that I’ve been involved with and organizations I’ve been consulting to over the years. Recognize manipulation or influence (intended- or side-effects) and act ethically.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business

Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. While the companies comprising the S&P 500 reduced their average cost of goods sold by 500 basis points between 2004 and 2014, they made no progress at all in trimming SG&A expenses, which include executive salaries and corporate overhead.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? So, are weak ties still the key?

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

STEEPLED: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical, and Demographic. Prohibitions, taboos, and ethical issues. You can download our PEST Analysis Template in the Downloads section of The HUB (FREE with Coupon Code “ PESTISBEST ” until the end of March 2014). Ethnic and religious factors.

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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business

Reading the report with that lens can help leaders better understand the biases that get in the way of ethical conduct and ethical organizations. Researchers call this “moral hypocrisy” and have demonstrated the great lengths people will go to in order to be seen as ethical. Performance over principles.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. It sought to make things better. References Holiday, R.

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