Mary Gentile: Giving Voice To Values - Blog Business Success Radio

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Director of Giving Voice To Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, and author of the practical and wisdom packed book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., describes the renewed interest in values and ethics in business schools and major corporations. Mary Gentile provides ideas about how instead of teaching ethics, business students must be taught ethical behavior. Mary Gentile shares ideas for acting with values in a business setting, including how to to act when someone else in the organization is acting unethically, or when you are pressed to act against your values yourself. Mary Gentile offers a process that can be applied to ensure that your ethical voice is heard, and that ethics and values have an impact on leaders and the actions of the entire organization.

Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D. is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Thursday, August 9, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Director of Giving Voice To Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, and author of the practical and wisdom packed book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., describes the renewed interest in values and ethics in business schools and major corporations. You will learn:

* Why ethics and values are about more than knowing right from wrong

* Why acting on your values and ethics is so critical

* Why there is a renewed interest in ethics for business

* How to stand up to others on behalf of ethics and make a difference



Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D. (photo left) is Director of Giving Voice To Values, an innovative global curriculum for values-driven leadership development.
She is also Senior Research Scholar at Babson College; Senior Advisor, The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program; and an independent consultant based in Arlington, MA. Previously Gentile was a faculty member and manager of case research at the Harvard Business School.

As Director of Giving Voice to Values (GVV), a business curriculum launched by Aspen Institute and Yale SOM now based and funded at Babson College. Gentile is leading a pioneering approach to values-driven leadership development that has been featured in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review (twice), strategy+business, Stanford Social Innovation Review, McKinsey Quarterly, BizEd, among many others, and is being piloted in over 125 business schools and organizations globally. The book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right is out from Yale University Press (2010).

As an independent consultant (1995-present), Gentile works with corporate, non-profit and academic institutions on leadership development, social impact management, ethics, business education and diversity. Clients include: Columbia University Business School, INSEAD, Harvard Business School, Pfizer Corporation, The United Nations Global Compact Learning Forum, University of Texas-Austin Business School, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, UCLA Anderson School of Business Executive Education, Duke University Fuqua School of Management, Notre Dame Business School, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Harvard Divinity School, among others.

With The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP), Gentile has been a key consultant from the organization’s inception, focusing on strategy and mission definition; research and networking; curriculum development; program design; writing of position papers and articles; and general executive coaching.

While at Harvard Business School (1985-95), Gentile was one of the principal architects of the innovative educational program, Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, which served to integrate Business Ethics into the Harvard graduate management curriculum. Gentile co-authored a book detailing the history, philosophy and implementation of this ethics initiative, Can Ethics Be Taught? Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at Harvard Business School (co-authored with Thomas R. Piper and Sharon Parks, Harvard Business School Press, 1993, translated into Japanese and Hungarian).

Her other publications include Differences That Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity, Managing Diversity: Making Differences Work, Managerial Excellence Through Diversity: Text and Cases, as well as numerous articles, cases, and book reviews in publications such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Harvard Business Review, Risk Management, CFO, The Journal of Human Values, New Academy Review, BizEd, strategy+business, etc. Gentile also served as the Content Expert for the award-winning multi-media interactive CD-ROM, Managing Across Differences (Harvard Business School Publishing New Media Group, 1996).

Gentile holds a bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with Director of Giving Voice To Values, Senior Research Scholar at Babson College, and author of the practical and wisdom packed book Giving Voice To Values: How To Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., as she describes the renewed interest in values and ethics in business schools and major corporations. Mary Gentile provides ideas about how instead of teaching ethics, business students must be taught ethical behavior. Mary Gentile shares ideas for acting with values in a business setting, including how to to act when someone else in the organization is acting unethically, or when you are pressed to act against your values yourself. Mary Gentile offers a process that can be applied to ensure that your ethical voice is heard, and that ethics and values have an impact on leaders and the actions of the entire organization on Blog Business Success Radio.

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Seeing The Big Picture by Kevin Cope - Book review

Seeing the Big Picture

Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company

By: Kevin Cope

Published: March 6, 2012
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1608322467
ISBN-13: 978-1608322466
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press












"Business acumen is keen, fundamental, street-smart insight into how your business operates and how it makes money and sustains profitable growth, now and in the future", writes successful executive, speaker, and founder of Acumen Learning, Kevin Cope, in his business building and very hands on book Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company. The author describes how to understand and apply the same five drivers - cash, profit, assets, growth, and people - that create the success or failure of any business.

Kevin Cope understands how recognizing these key factors, in the daily operations and decisions of the company, have an impact on the big picture for the organization. The author points out that regardless of industry or size of the business, the five key drivers remain the same. Kevin Cope describes how understanding this interrelationship between the drivers, the day to day operations, and the overall big picture, as having acumen. To delve more deeply into the five key drivers, the author provides the tools for understanding the numbers that underline the success or failure of the company. With the development of acumen, a business person at any point in their career, can influence the direction and strength of the entire organization.



Kevin Cope (photo left) provides evidence that business people want to be more effective and valuable to their companies. They want to make decisions, be consulted on ideas and direction, and to contribute to the organizational success. Kevin Cope shares the insights that business people want work that is both engaging and worthwhile. At the same time, they understand that to enhance both their own career and the success of the company, they must have a complete grasp of the five drivers of business success and failure.

To make a real difference, Kevin Cope offers the following competencies that business people must achieve, in order to have business acumen:

* Seeing the big picture of the organization
* Understanding company communications, data, and financial statements
* Using knowledge to make and influence good decisions
* Understanding how your decisions relate to the company's objectives
* Effectively communicate your ideas to employees, managers, and executives

For me, the power of the book is how Kevin Cope provides the insight of identifying the five key drivers of a company is critical to successful management, both on a daily basis and to the overall big picture. The relationship between individual decision making and big picture objectives of the organizations is often a challenge for many managers. Kevin Cope describes the ability to make the overall connection as having acumen. Being in possession of acumen creates a vast improvement in the ability to communicate ideas, influence organizational direction, and the development of strategy at all levels.

To ensure that the business person has the tools to achieve acumen, Kevin Cope provides very accessible and readily understood concepts of business finance. With the complete grasp of the numbers, and what they really mean, a manager or executive can see readily whether the company is on the road to success or to failure. A business person with acumen takes these numbers seriously, as they understand their crucial importance as the illustration of the five main drivers of success.

I highly recommend the very practical and personal outlook changing book Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company by Kevin Cope to any business people, at any level of the organization, or at any point in their career, who are seeking a concise course on the importance of the drivers of business success, and how to master them. This book will demonstrate the relationship between everyday decision making and its impact on the overall big picture goals of the organization.

Tags: Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company, J. Keith Murnighan, leadership development, business book reviews

Margie Analise: Women Entrepreneurs: Live Your Biggest Dream - Blog Business Success Radio

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Speaker, author, and business coach Margie Analise describes how women entrepreneurs can break free of obstacles and live their biggest dream. Margie Analise offers advice for overcoming self worth, confidence, and mistaken attitudes about money to kickstart your entrepreneurial success. Margie shares ideas for discovering enhanced clarity of vision for the business, and how to zero in on that target.



Margie guides women who feel they are not qualified to own and operate a business toward their goals, while also building their management skills. Margie Analise also discusses the all too frequent challenge of not receiving support from family and friends who may not understand the entrepreneurial vision. Learn how women can overcome barriers and achieve success as entrepreneurs and business leaders in any economy.

Margie Analise is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, August 7, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Speaker, author, and business coach Margie Analise describes how women entrepreneurs can break free of obstacles and live their biggest dream. You will learn:

* Why women don't go for their biggest dream

* Obstacles to women's entrepreneurial success

* How to find clarity of vision for business and life

* How to gain the support of friends and family for your business start-up



Margie Analise (photo ledt) is an effervescent spirit, and a passionate warrior of happiness and fulfillment. Her mission in life is empowering women entrepreneurs to their create sexy outrageous success, and live the business and life they really want!

As an author, speaker, coach, and hostess of the lively twitter chat AWEtalk, Margie is a busy woman, but her greatest joy is found in getting to know you.

Margie Analise has a great sense of fun and adventure – she even learned to play the drums just a couple of years ago! (Talk about a workout!) She's a lifelong fashionista at heart! She has a weakness for bling, sea salt dark chocolate, and almond milk lattes. And Margie is fired up about music, healthy eating and fitness. It’s all jam-packed into her DNA! Whew!

Margie was once 80 lbs overweight, hating her life and completely directionless. Margie learned and earned her way down the path to actually living the life that once she only lived in her dreams.

Margie now weaves her extensive business experience, entrepreneurial acumen, and powerful life lessons into helping you.

Margie pays it forward by guiding and mentoring women down the paths to the life written on their heart. She draws upon their innate creative energy to help them find and lay each stone that paves the way to their greatest success.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.



If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.



To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832

Let's talk with Speaker, author, and business coach Margie Analise describes how women entrepreneurs can break free of obstacles and live their biggest dream. Margie Analise offers advice for overcoming self worth, confidence, and mistaken attitudes about money to kickstart your entrepreneurial success. Margie shares ideas for discovering enhanced clarity of vision for the business, and how to zero in on that target. Margie guides women who feel they are not qualified to own and operate a business toward their goals, while also building their management skills. Margie Analise also discusses the all too frequent challenge of not receiving support from family and friends who may not understand the entrepreneurial vision. Learn how women can overcome barriers and achieve success as entrepreneurs and business leaders in any economy on Blog Business Success Radio.

Tags: Women Entrepreneurs: Live Your Biggest Dream, Margie Analise, personal development, Blog Business Success, Blog Talk Radio.