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Can Social Technology Help “Reinvent Business”?

From Occupy Wall Street to the publication of resignation letters in the New York Times, we cannot ignore the widening “trust gap” between business and society. Increasingly, consumers and citizens are demanding that companies match their actions to their words. Integrity must incorporate the values and principles of stakeholders, including society at large. Our current crises – referring not only to financial ones – are not the result of unforeseen disasters or natural market cycles. They are the result of our behaviour.

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Why Companies Shouldn’t ‘Do’ Compliance

How would a global company build a big enough bureaucracy to ensure that all 100,000 employees in its operating companies worldwide follow each and every law and regulation? Even further, how could the CEO of that company be assured that his or her people were acting according to the even higher standard of behavior demanded by its stakeholder community?

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Business is Personal

What ideas are you building your company on? It’s an important question for all organizations, and some companies are responding with innovative and inspiring answers. Ideas shape our thinking, animate our endeavors, and serve as the foundation upon which we scale our institutions and companies.

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Inspirational Leadership in the Era of Behavior

Dov Seidman spoke to more than 3,500 senior business leaders in Brazil as part of World Business of Ideas Expomanagement, the largest business management event in Brazil that attracts more than 20K people each year for the past 10 years running. It was remarkable to see 3.5K people raise their hands in agreement that we cannot make progress without a foundation of trust.

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The Top 10 Ways to Become Truly Social

The problem begins with how we’re defining “social enterprise.” The conventional wisdom suggests that we can flip a switch (i.e. implement social media capabilities) and our employees will magically collaborate and innovate in meaningful and profitable ways with an ever-expanding network of global stakeholders.

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Beyond the Best Buy Outcry

A debate about Best Buy’s behavior, and the retail giant’s very existence erupted in the blogosphere this month. Although the issue qualified as “big” – the electronics giant’s future as well as the competitive threat Amazon poses to traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers – I believe these deliberations were so heated because much more significant issues are involved.

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Tom Friedman Column

Help Wanted

We are present again at one of those great unravelings — just like after World War I, World War II and the cold war. But this time there was no war. All of these states have been pulled down from within — without warning. Why?

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Measuring HOW We Do Business

In business – where the 20th Century adage that “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” remains as valid as ever – we’re finding that traditional measures just do not add up in a globally interdependent world. This article was originally published in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dovseidman/2011/11/27/measuring-how-we-do-business/?sh=2e8fea903fd8…

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HOW Matters More Than Ever

When HOW was first published in 2007, I argued in the book that we were entering the Era of Behavior. Now HOW has been re-published by John Wiley & Sons in an expanded edition and over the last four years it has become clear that we haven’t just entered the Era of Behavior. We’ve plunged way deep in it. Our behavior matters even more than I thought when I first wrote the book, and in ways I never imagined.

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Tom Friedman Column

How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?

In the last decade, we have gone from a connected world (thanks to the end of the Cold War, globalization and the Internet) to a hyperconnected world (thanks to those same forces expanding even faster). And it matters.

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Humanity is Job #1

As we continue to frequently lurch from one crisis to another, forging a sustainable path forward requires business leaders to rethink the very nature of how their organizations conduct business. The “New Normal” – defined by hypertransparency, hyperconnectivity, and ever- deepening interdependencies --demands new governance structures, organization models and leadership styles.

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‘How,’ Not ‘How Much’

The Dallas Mavericks won the 2011 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship because its leadership team understood that measuring “how” matters more than measuring “how much.” Boards of directors and executive teams should take note. Measuring how individuals and organizations behave concentrates attention and resources on a competitive asset that is so varied and rich in…

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Welcome to the Era of Behavior

Not so long ago, we lived in a world where “externalities” were not our problem. The societal problems created by the operations of our large businesses lived “over there” — across the world, in someone else’s backyard, or in a supplier’s business. In a recent HBR piece, Chris Meyer and Julia Kirby tell us that’s no longer true, now that we live in an “age of transparency.” Internet-age technology has made our operations hyper-connected and hyper-visible, and now interested parties can easily see causes and effects — and easily tell others all over the world about what they see.

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Tom Friedman Column

A Question from Lydia

You are growing up in an increasingly integrated world where we’ll all need to be guided by the simple credo of the global nature-preservation group Conservation International, and that is: “Lost there, felt here.”

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Why doing good is good for business

Virtue is supposed to be its own reward, but according to an emerging line of thought, it's profitable too. The Pfizer (PFE, Fortune 500) case is the kind of object lesson that permeates the gospel of Dov Seidman, a Los Angeles-based management guru who has become the hottest adviser on corporate virtue to Fortune 500 companies.

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Tom Friedman Column

Adults Only, Please

Sometimes you wonder: Are we home alone? Obviously, the political and financial elites to whom we give authority often act on the basis of personal interests.

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Are We Home Alone?

We’re in a once-a-century financial crisis, and yet we’ve actually descended into politics worse than usual. There don’t seem to be any adults at the top nobody acting larger than the moment, nobody being impelled by anything deeper than the last news cycle.

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Why HOW Matters

I have a friend who regularly reminds me that if you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 stories you can actually think you’re flying. It’s the sudden stop at the end that always gets you.

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Outbehave the Competition

Dov Seidman shares the five "hows" companies need to get right to develop ethical corporate cultures, inspire principled performance and allow your business to thrive. Sharing the video with your organization will strengthen your efforts to engage executives and employees in corporate ethics by conveying the business benefits of earning a reputation for lawful, ethical conduct in the marketplace.

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The Whole World is Watching

Companies that get their hows wrong won’t be able to just hire a P.R. firm to clean up the mess by a taking a couple of reporters to lunch — not when everyone is a reporter and can talk back and be heard globally.