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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

UVA Darden

We witness with seeming regularity the importance of ESG factors through such high-profile incidents such as Enron’s fraud (2001), the VW “Dieselgate” emissions test scandal (2015) and Facebook’s personal data privacy breach (2018). 1 These factors include a firm’s environmental impact (e.g., This issue came to the fore in 2022 when the U.S.

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Newbie Goggles

Ed Batista

In that context it's often useful to remind my client they possess a uniquely valuable asset that will eventually disappear: newbie goggles. pages 109-110 (Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, 2006 / 2nd edition 2015). For most of us, most of the time, the various cultures that surround us are nearly undetectable. Footnotes. [1] On Change).

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Michael McKinney

He is director of the CAA Group of Companies, an adjudicator with the Capital Markets Tribunal, and from 2015 to 2019 was a commissioner with the Ontario Securities Commission. Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, a co-founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc., 30, 2023).

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Self-Care for Coaches

Ed Batista

Manage Your Assets (and Say No More Often) When wearing my CEO hat I have to be mindful that my small business has two (and only two) assets: my time and my reputation. I'm the sole steward of those assets--if my time is wasted or my reputation suffers, no one pays a price but me. Get Outside (Jessica Stillman, Inc.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

Liquid Planner Collaboration

With more than 20 years’ professional experience, James Arrow has played a key role in successfully delivering critical capital assets, in a variety of locations, around the world. Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2015. About the Author. Accessed 26 June 2022.

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Don’t Fly by the Seat of Your Pants: The Good Way to Deliver Bad News

UVA Darden

Communication apprehension can actually be an asset to your performance, making you come across as human and genuine; it is only a hindrance if it “is severe or uncontrolled” and keeps you from being able to speak clearly. Experience and practice can help; almost everyone becomes less anxious the more they speak in public.

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How to Change the Culture of Your Team to Prevent Major Problems

Get Lighthouse

The corporation famously hid toxic assets and debt from their investors and creditors for a better part of a decade – leading to total bankruptcy and more than $40 billion in lawsuits. pic.twitter.com/nyMfxlZuEU — Allyson Downey (@AllysonDowney) February 19, 2015. Remember Enron? The issue at hand read as a simple typo.