Essentially, the presentation addresses the question: what should be the next step in global civilization? It does so by examining what has brought us thus far, and what is stopping us advancing further
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Presented at IEEE All India Student Congress 2013 and 14th Regional Conference of International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES), questions the existence of the proverbial glass ceiling and provides justification in support of its existence.
Dear friends
i am attaching a copy of THEORETICAL STUDY ON
GLASS CEILING CONCEPT
i hope that it would be useful for you
I am glad to receive your feedbacks
With Regards
Abdul Rahiman Meharoof MSW
mob 09895503119
blog www.mrf007.blogspot.com
Presented at IEEE All India Student Congress 2013 and 14th Regional Conference of International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES), questions the existence of the proverbial glass ceiling and provides justification in support of its existence.
One of the most frequent observations about Ursula Burns’ success is the
fact that she is the first African-American woman to lead a major US
corporation and the first female CEO to take the reins from another woman.
Leading questions: Leading Answers: Sue Leather & Andy Hockley IATEFL 2013Sue Leather
What qualities and skills do educational leaders need? How can these skills best be developed online? This interactive presentation looks at the development of an online course in leadership and teamwork for project managers and other leaders. It analyses the decisions we took in identifying the key competences, in devising a teaching/learning approach, and in combining the two.
Leading in a complex world is no longer about having all the answers. It's about asking the appropriate questions. To your customers, your team, and to yourself. A great team session where participants will learn about themselves, and from others.
This 1 day workshop is based on the book with the same title by Dr Michael Marquardt and licensed by the World Institute for Action Learning.
Type # 1: Questions that clarify, explain and define problems.
Type # 2: Questions that explore connections and differences.
Type # 3: Questions that are strategic, leading, confrontational.
Type # 4: Questions that encourage reflection.
In this lesson you will learn some great conversation tips from Dawn. She is one of the teachers from Skype English School. Visit us at http://skype-englishschool.com
Sample of the 2016 edition of the Megatrend Fact Sheets. The full document will save you hours of research time, and will help you to:
- prepare your team for long-term planning sessions;
- understand the long-term challenges for your business and industry;
- discover new opportunities and innovative ideas;
- engage in meaningful discussions with your clients and partners.
One of the most frequent observations about Ursula Burns’ success is the
fact that she is the first African-American woman to lead a major US
corporation and the first female CEO to take the reins from another woman.
Leading questions: Leading Answers: Sue Leather & Andy Hockley IATEFL 2013Sue Leather
What qualities and skills do educational leaders need? How can these skills best be developed online? This interactive presentation looks at the development of an online course in leadership and teamwork for project managers and other leaders. It analyses the decisions we took in identifying the key competences, in devising a teaching/learning approach, and in combining the two.
Leading in a complex world is no longer about having all the answers. It's about asking the appropriate questions. To your customers, your team, and to yourself. A great team session where participants will learn about themselves, and from others.
This 1 day workshop is based on the book with the same title by Dr Michael Marquardt and licensed by the World Institute for Action Learning.
Type # 1: Questions that clarify, explain and define problems.
Type # 2: Questions that explore connections and differences.
Type # 3: Questions that are strategic, leading, confrontational.
Type # 4: Questions that encourage reflection.
In this lesson you will learn some great conversation tips from Dawn. She is one of the teachers from Skype English School. Visit us at http://skype-englishschool.com
Sample of the 2016 edition of the Megatrend Fact Sheets. The full document will save you hours of research time, and will help you to:
- prepare your team for long-term planning sessions;
- understand the long-term challenges for your business and industry;
- discover new opportunities and innovative ideas;
- engage in meaningful discussions with your clients and partners.
How do you know what your future market will look like? How can your business model adapt? And how can it help your business? Explore these questions using Horizons, a practical tool to help identify and think through the big environmental and social trends and issues.
The Economics of Justice presentation to the European Economic Summit 7sep2016Prabhu Guptara
Is there anything like a fair or just economy? Why don't we have it? What you and I can do to see it come into being.
Note that the European Economic Summit takes place every 2 years.
How To Deal With Disruption and How To Thrive In A Disruptive AgeFahri Karakas
We live in interesting and accelerated times. No professional today, whether in the public or private sector, can afford to be unaware of the pace of changes surrounding them. The pace of business change happening around us is relentless. The global forces of competition, innovation, and new technologies are creating new markets while eliminating others.
Multidimensional technological forces involving automation, 3D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, Industry 4.0, internet of things, and blockchain are rapidly transforming the future of work, organizations, and jobs.
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Developments in machine learning, robotics, nanotech, biotech, and 3D printing are all building on and amplifying one another. Technology is disruptive and it keeps transforming workplaces, business practices, and work processes. Companies are trying hard to survive — the only way to survive is to adapt, change, and innovate fast.
Companies are hungrier for smart ideas and innovations than ever before because they know they will go extinct unless they learn, improve, evolve, accelerate, and create constantly.
89% of Fortune 500 companies from 1955 are not on the list in 2014. The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 was 67 years old in the 1920s. Right now this age is 15 years only and it keeps going down. In 2028, 40% of all S&P 500 companies are expected to disappear from this list. Similarly, 75% of S&P 500 firms are estimated to be replaced within 15 years.
In 1996, Kodak had nearly 150 thousand employees and $28 billion market cap. In 2008, the whole market was gone. The invention of digital cameras eliminated traditional camera businesses. A company that is not trying to disrupt itself is destined to be disrupted.
We are experiencing a digital revolution and the industrial paradigm is over. Mass production is becoming obsolete and 3D printers are replacing factories. Companies work in virtual networks and remote work is the order of the day.
Products are bought on demand and they are customized by default. We do not need huge scales of economy, organization charts, hierarchies, factories, standardized exams, or large production floors anymore.
We do not need cable TV, mass-market, and broadcast advertising. We are now experiencing a borderless, democratized, digital world where each individual can have a huge impact.
We can now create our own game in this world. We can design games, create our own blogs or podcasts or YouTube channel or raise funds on Kickstarter. We can write a book and explain ourselves to the world. We can create fresh and exciting digital products (training, courses, etc.) We live in a world where ideas can change people’s lives. This means all of us can create our own game.
It is impossible to imagine that the skills needed at work will remain the same in the new decade. The world is changing fast and we need to learn, re-invent, and disrupt ourselves every day.
An overview of poverty levels within ethnic communities in the US. Governmental attempts at a baseline. Five types of capital formation within a capitalist infrastructure as pathways out. This is the basis of the video at https://vimeo.com/vivgrigg/uspoverty
A lecture looking at the history, drivers and actions around the development and expansion of the corporate responsibility movement/trend post WWII to present day.
Opening lecture of my series on corporate responsibility taught at Birkbeck, University of London, on the MSC Corporate Governance and Ethics. Contact me if you'd like others.
Organizational Change and Stress ManagementSource Jeff Moore.docxalfred4lewis58146
Organizational Change and Stress Management
Source: Jeff Moore/Splash News/Newscom.
Photo: Cadbury workers protesting at Westminster.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Identify forces that act as stimulants to change, and contrast planned and unplanned change.
2. Describe the sources of resistance to change.
3. Compare the four main approaches to managing organizational change.
4. Demonstrate two ways of creating a culture for change.
5. Define stress, and identify its potential sources.
6. Identify the consequences of stress.
7. Contrast the individual and organizational approaches to managing stress.
Access a host of interactive learning aids to help strengthen your understanding of the chapter concepts atwww.mymanagementlab.com.
Sweet Changes at Cadbury?
Hostile takeovers are never easy, especially for those in the company being acquired. But some takeovers are more hostile than others. Kraft’s acquisition of Cadbury is a case in point. After its initial offer to acquire the UK confectioner was deemed “derisory,” Kraft sweetened the deal, and Cadbury’s CEO declared it “good value for Cadbury shareholders.” Cadbury managers and employees, however, continue to have difficulty adjusting to the change.
One problem was the way Kraft handled the acquisition. Shortly after signing the deal, Kraft reneged on its pledge to keep Cadbury’s Somerdale, England, plant open. The British, infuriated, demanded that Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld appear before Parliament. Rosenfeld refused, saying, it “was not the best use of my personal time.” Members of Parliament, in turn, threatened to bring charges of contempt. Rosenfeld retorted: “The continued assault has been somewhat surprising.”
The public relations aspect of the plant closing will probably blow over with time. However, a deeper and potentially more serious issue is the difference in cultures between the two organizations.
Kraft, by far the larger, is known for its formal and relatively hierarchical culture. Its meetings tend to be lengthy, with most decisions requiring the approval of top-level executives.
Cadbury was known for its more informal and more egalitarian culture. Its former CEO was often seen on the shop floor talking informally with workers. Its managers felt they were given the autonomy to be creative. Its marketing team won awards for producing the “Cadbury Gorilla” ad (available on YouTube).
Some employees who had been part of Cadbury have complained of Kraft’s “Orwellian” management. Cadbury managers complain that Kraft “runs the show with military precision ... directives or proposals pass through a hierarchy of layers.” Says another anonymous manager: “That more entrepreneurial side of things got quashed because there are so many more layers of input and discussion.” And according to a former employee, “Cadbu.
Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to indiaPrabhu Guptara
Discussion of what is attracting FDI to India today vs. the sorts of things that should ideally attract them. Also of whether FDI will address the real problems in the economy. With special attention to the fact that Covid has changed investment psychology, both among executives and among investors.
INDIA - The Great Opportunity to DO WELL and DO GOODPrabhu Guptara
Discusses investment opportunities in the high-tech start-up scene as well as opportunities to help alleviate poverty, dispel myths and untruths, and improve education and health.
From a Relational point of view, presents an analysis of the current situation as well as history of the country, and indicates ways ahead for the future. Slides from a presentation at the international conference on Relationism, held in Cambridge, U.K., on the 14th of September 2019
The roots of our crisis presentation to the thunderbird school of global mana...Prabhu Guptara
Explores globlal trends to identify the roots of the current crisis, as well as to promote some possible solutions which have the potential to carry the day.
Leading Questions for the Thought Leadership Club at Ireland’s leading B-Sc...Prabhu Guptara
Essentially, the presentation addresses the question: what should be the next step in global civilization? It does so by examining what has brought us thus far, and what is stopping us advancing further
Examines the phenomenon as well its impacts and possible ways of moving forward. Used for my presentation to Parliamentarians and invited guests in Bucharest, Romania, in the wonderful Palace of the Parliament in October 2015. There was a good discussion!
Slides of a lecture on this topic, delivered at an American university - but perhaps with wider resonance?
Please note that the circles etc are not meant to be representative of the relative weights in any exact manner - they are merely indicative.
The Socio-Economic Roots of Poverty (gilpp_2013)Prabhu Guptara
Explores whether the roots of poverty are social and cultural? And, if so, whether the kinds of economic initiatives we follow at present, have any real chance of eliminating poverty? Further, what kinds of initiatives can in fact eliminate poverty and produce the kind of development that most humans would recognise as worthwhile?
The five approaches to understanding nearly everythingPrabhu Guptara
There are only 5 ways of seeing the world; when one comes to terms with this fact, it is easier to understand differences of opinion regarding nearly everything.
Explores why most current initiatives for creating just workplaces don't have the desired impact; whether unjust workplaces are symptoms of a deeper disease; and how Relational Thinking addresses the challenge
subtitled "Propaganda and Marketing versus Global Co-Creation", this presents global trends as the context for the move away from "marketing as propaganda" to the new world of global co-creation
Putting the SPARK into Virtual Training.pptxCynthia Clay
This 60-minute webinar, sponsored by Adobe, was delivered for the Training Mag Network. It explored the five elements of SPARK: Storytelling, Purpose, Action, Relationships, and Kudos. Knowing how to tell a well-structured story is key to building long-term memory. Stating a clear purpose that doesn't take away from the discovery learning process is critical. Ensuring that people move from theory to practical application is imperative. Creating strong social learning is the key to commitment and engagement. Validating and affirming participants' comments is the way to create a positive learning environment.
RMD24 | Retail media: hoe zet je dit in als je geen AH of Unilever bent? Heid...BBPMedia1
Grote partijen zijn al een tijdje onderweg met retail media. Ondertussen worden in dit domein ook de kansen zichtbaar voor andere spelers in de markt. Maar met die kansen ontstaan ook vragen: Zelf retail media worden of erop adverteren? In welke fase van de funnel past het en hoe integreer je het in een mediaplan? Wat is nu precies het verschil met marketplaces en Programmatic ads? In dit half uur beslechten we de dilemma's en krijg je antwoorden op wanneer het voor jou tijd is om de volgende stap te zetten.
Premium MEAN Stack Development Solutions for Modern BusinessesSynapseIndia
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What are the main advantages of using HR recruiter services.pdfHumanResourceDimensi1
HR recruiter services offer top talents to companies according to their specific needs. They handle all recruitment tasks from job posting to onboarding and help companies concentrate on their business growth. With their expertise and years of experience, they streamline the hiring process and save time and resources for the company.
India Orthopedic Devices Market: Unlocking Growth Secrets, Trends and Develop...Kumar Satyam
According to TechSci Research report, “India Orthopedic Devices Market -Industry Size, Share, Trends, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2030”, the India Orthopedic Devices Market stood at USD 1,280.54 Million in 2024 and is anticipated to grow with a CAGR of 7.84% in the forecast period, 2026-2030F. The India Orthopedic Devices Market is being driven by several factors. The most prominent ones include an increase in the elderly population, who are more prone to orthopedic conditions such as osteoporosis and arthritis. Moreover, the rise in sports injuries and road accidents are also contributing to the demand for orthopedic devices. Advances in technology and the introduction of innovative implants and prosthetics have further propelled the market growth. Additionally, government initiatives aimed at improving healthcare infrastructure and the increasing prevalence of lifestyle diseases have led to an upward trend in orthopedic surgeries, thereby fueling the market demand for these devices.
Explore our most comprehensive guide on lookback analysis at SafePaaS, covering access governance and how it can transform modern ERP audits. Browse now!
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey throu...dylandmeas
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey through Full Sail University. Below, you’ll find a collection of my work showcasing my skills and expertise in digital marketing, event planning, and media production.
What is the TDS Return Filing Due Date for FY 2024-25.pdfseoforlegalpillers
It is crucial for the taxpayers to understand about the TDS Return Filing Due Date, so that they can fulfill your TDS obligations efficiently. Taxpayers can avoid penalties by sticking to the deadlines and by accurate filing of TDS. Timely filing of TDS will make sure about the availability of tax credits. You can also seek the professional guidance of experts like Legal Pillers for timely filing of the TDS Return.
Memorandum Of Association Constitution of Company.pptseri bangash
www.seribangash.com
A Memorandum of Association (MOA) is a legal document that outlines the fundamental principles and objectives upon which a company operates. It serves as the company's charter or constitution and defines the scope of its activities. Here's a detailed note on the MOA:
Contents of Memorandum of Association:
Name Clause: This clause states the name of the company, which should end with words like "Limited" or "Ltd." for a public limited company and "Private Limited" or "Pvt. Ltd." for a private limited company.
https://seribangash.com/article-of-association-is-legal-doc-of-company/
Registered Office Clause: It specifies the location where the company's registered office is situated. This office is where all official communications and notices are sent.
Objective Clause: This clause delineates the main objectives for which the company is formed. It's important to define these objectives clearly, as the company cannot undertake activities beyond those mentioned in this clause.
www.seribangash.com
Liability Clause: It outlines the extent of liability of the company's members. In the case of companies limited by shares, the liability of members is limited to the amount unpaid on their shares. For companies limited by guarantee, members' liability is limited to the amount they undertake to contribute if the company is wound up.
https://seribangash.com/promotors-is-person-conceived-formation-company/
Capital Clause: This clause specifies the authorized capital of the company, i.e., the maximum amount of share capital the company is authorized to issue. It also mentions the division of this capital into shares and their respective nominal value.
Association Clause: It simply states that the subscribers wish to form a company and agree to become members of it, in accordance with the terms of the MOA.
Importance of Memorandum of Association:
Legal Requirement: The MOA is a legal requirement for the formation of a company. It must be filed with the Registrar of Companies during the incorporation process.
Constitutional Document: It serves as the company's constitutional document, defining its scope, powers, and limitations.
Protection of Members: It protects the interests of the company's members by clearly defining the objectives and limiting their liability.
External Communication: It provides clarity to external parties, such as investors, creditors, and regulatory authorities, regarding the company's objectives and powers.
https://seribangash.com/difference-public-and-private-company-law/
Binding Authority: The company and its members are bound by the provisions of the MOA. Any action taken beyond its scope may be considered ultra vires (beyond the powers) of the company and therefore void.
Amendment of MOA:
While the MOA lays down the company's fundamental principles, it is not entirely immutable. It can be amended, but only under specific circumstances and in compliance with legal procedures. Amendments typically require shareholder
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
To download the complete presentation, visit: https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations
Attending a job Interview for B1 and B2 Englsih learnersErika906060
It is a sample of an interview for a business english class for pre-intermediate and intermediate english students with emphasis on the speking ability.
Affordable Stationery Printing Services in Jaipur | Navpack n PrintNavpack & Print
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Enterprise Excellence is Inclusive Excellence.pdfKaiNexus
Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
What is Enterprise Excellence?
Enterprise Excellence is a holistic approach that's aimed at achieving world-class performance across all aspects of the organization.
What might I learn?
A way to engage all in creating Inclusive Excellence. Lessons from the US military and their parallels to the story of Harry Potter. How belt systems and CI teams can destroy inclusive practices. How leadership language invites people to the party. There are three things leaders can do to engage everyone every day: maximizing psychological safety to create environments where folks learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo.
Who might benefit? Anyone and everyone leading folks from the shop floor to top floor.
Dr. William Harvey is a seasoned Operations Leader with extensive experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, and operations management. At Michelman, he currently oversees multiple sites, leading teams in strategic planning and coaching/practicing continuous improvement. William is set to start his eighth year of teaching at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches marketing, finance, and management. William holds various certifications in change management, quality, leadership, operational excellence, team building, and DiSC, among others.
Leading Questions for the Thought Leadership Club at Ireland’s leading B-School
1. Leading Questions for the
Thought Leadership Club at
Ireland’s leading B-School
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Prabhu Guptara
Executive Director
Relational Analytics Ltd
Cambridge, U.K.
p.guptara@relational-analytics.com
2. Please note
NOT the official position of The Relational Thinking Movement,
or of any of the other organisations, universities, etc.
with which I am or have been connected
• The intention is to provoke us to think!!!
3. 5 Simultaneous and Unforeseen Crises?
“Europe is juggling five simultaneous crises, all unforeseen shocks in
different stages of development:
- refugees from Syria,
- eurozone periphery debt,
- a global economic downturn,
- Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its aftermath, and
- Volkswagen’s crimes and misdemeanours”
Wolfgang Münchau, FT, 27 September 2015
4. My Leading Question: What is wrong?
Democracy and capitalism have brought us such a long way!
Why then do they produce so much unfairness and inequality?
Why so much moral failure?
Why so many crises?
And why do we seem to be retreating from our social & environmental goals?
5. My Leading Question: What is wrong?
Democracy and capitalism have brought us such a long way!
Why then do they produce so much unfairness and inequality?
Why so much moral failure?
Why so many crises?
And why do we seem to be retreating from our social & environmental goals?
7. My Leading Question: What is wrong?
Democracy and capitalism have brought us such a long way!
Why then do they produce so much unfairness and inequality?
Why so much moral failure?
Why so many crises?
And why do we seem to be retreating from our social & environmental goals?
8. DOES capitalism produce unfairness & inequality?
• Please note: this is NOT an argument for Marxism or Socialism!
• Depends on your definition of “capitalism”
• But we certainly need to reform capitalism as it is currently practiced
around the world, where the results are precisely these as
documented e.g. in:
• David Graeber’s 5000 Years of Debt
• Irving Fisher’s Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions (1933 - Internet)
• Yves Smith’s Econned
• John Lanchester’s Whoops!
• Gillian Tett, Fool’s Gold
9. My Leading Question: What is wrong?
Democracy and capitalism have brought us such a long way!
Why then do they produce so much unfairness and inequality?
Why so much moral failure?
Why so many crises?
And why do we seem to be retreating from our social & environmental goals?
10. Warren Buffet
“Look for three things in a
person: intelligence, energy,
and integrity. If they don’t
have the last one, don’t even
bother”
11. Malfeasance, Fraud, Buck-passing…
• Enron, WorldCom, 3Com, Arthur Andersen, Tyco, WasteManagement,
HealthSouth, FreddieMac, AIG, Lehmann Brothers…
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• Merck’s Vioxx
• Exxon-Valdez oil disaster
• Ford Explorers with Firestone tires prone to fatal rollovers
• Aventis (now Sanofi-Aventis) Starlink genetically modified corn “only
approved for use as animal feed” but in human food!!! Recalls &
factory shutdowns for companies like ConAgra & Kraft…
12. Malfeasance, Fraud, Buck-passing…
• Bernie Madoff
• Satyam
• American Home Products (now Wyeth) popular diet combo Fen-Phen
actually caused fatal heart problems - $21 billion
• Union Carbide’s 1984 gas leak in an Indian pesticide factory: for many years
the worst chemical accident on record. Roughly 4,000 died within days, and
authorities estimate the long-term death toll at 15,000, with hundreds of
thousands more stricken with health problems. The catastrophe cost Union
Carbide (bought by Dow Chemical nine years ago) $470 million in
restitution payments to the Indian government, but the cost to its
reputation was much higher. The anniversary of the leak is still marked by
vigils and protests
13. Major corporate collapses and scandals
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_and_scan
dals
• 15th c: Medici Bank
• 18th c: The Mississippi Company, & The South Sea Bubble
• 19th c: Gurney, & Krupp
• 20th c: DanatBank 1931, Allied Crude 1963, Herstatt Bank 1974,
Carrian 1983, Texaco 1987, Qintex 1989, Lincoln S&L 1989, LTCM
1998, Polly Peck 1990, BCCI 1991, Nordbanken 1991, Barings Bank
1995, Bre-X 1997
14. Major corporate collapses and scandals
• 21st c: Equitable 2000, HIH 2001, Pacific G&E 2001, OneTel 2001,
WorldCom2001, Enron 2001, Chiquitas 2001, Kmart 2002, Adelphia
2002, Arthur Andersen 2002, Parmalat 2003, MG Rover 2005, Bayou
Hedge Fund 2005, Refco 2005, Bear Stearns 2008, Northern Rock 2008,
Lehmann Brothers 2008, AIG 2008, Washington Mutual 2008, RBS 2008,
ABN-Amro 2008, Nortel 2009, AIB 2009, Arcandor 2009, Schlecker 2012,
Dynergy 2012, Banco Espirito Santo 2014
• Joel Bakan: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
15. What is the *value* of a leader’s integrity?
Can it be quantified?
• Dr. Fred Kiel did just that in his book, Return On Character (published
by Harvard Business Review Press in April 2015)
• Over a seven-year period, Kiel collected data on 84 CEOs and
compared employee ratings of their behaviour to company
performance
• Employee engagement was 26% higher in organizations led by high-
integrity CEOs
• High-integrity CEOs had a multi-year return of 9.4%, while low
integrity CEOs had a yield of just 1.9%.
16. The Moral State of the Financial Services Industry
•26% have seen wrongdoing themselves
•24% think unethical conduct necessary
to get on in the industry(!)
•16 % ready to commit fraud
• Financial Services Survey July2012 http://www.labaton.com/en/about/press/Labaton-
Sucharow-announces-results-of-financial-services-professional-survey.cfm
17. Bernanke: More execs should have faced
prosecution for 2008 crisis
• Reporting a story in USA Today, Sun Oct 4, 2015:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/04/us-bernanke-
financialcrisis-idUSKCN0RY0X420151004
18. One Clue
• “Buddhist morality in general, whether early or late, is based
upon a distinction between the wholesome and the
unwholesome rather than between good and evil” -Karl H Potter
(1996), Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol 7, “Abidharma Buddhism to 150
AD, Motilal Banarsidas, New Delhi, page 48
• Any distinction based on “wholesome” begs the question:
According to whom?
• As that can only be some individual or group of human
beings, it is (and has been) open to manipulation by the
more intelligent and/or more powerful.
19. My Leading Question: What is wrong?
Democracy and capitalism have brought us such a long way!
Why then do they produce so much unfairness and inequality?
Why so much moral failure?
Why so many crises?
And why do we seem to be retreating from our social & environmental goals?
Editor's Notes
Not only ideas and concepts but specific and practical things you can do to take Relationships forward in your personal and family life, in your neighbourhood, in the schools and businesses with you are connected.