It seems to me that “profit” has become a dirty word. Even in our for-profit companies, we seem to be worried about the image of wanting to be paid a fair price for the services or products we provide.

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It is often said that we best serve our company if we keep it “focused.” A recent seminar tag line I’ve seen is “Growing your business through focus.” The question is, of course, what are you focused on?

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As I’ve said earlier, what gets measured and rewarded gets done. If our leadership teams are not careful about what they reward employees to accomplish, either intentionally or unintentionally, then unexpected results will certainly occur.

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Employees watch where their leadership team spends its time and the corporate monies. It is critical to the credibility of the corporate team that ALL the signals they send are in fact in concert with the messages of the Ethics Process, the Mission and Vision statements, and the stated management objectives given to the employees to implement and achieve.

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