SmithOBrien Management Consulting & Research

Your consulting is a different type of reengineering that has led us to be more transparent and profitable. Stephen Warshaw former Chief Executive Officer Chiquita Brands International As specialists in the challenges of building and sustaining values-centered organizations, we do the hard work - working alongside our clients to: for transforming core values into progressive and admired operating practices, Integrate core values into Provide for board directors, global managers and employees. At SmithOBrien, we believe that: Values should be a starting point, not the finishing touch. Values are not a management tool. Values implementation is a task that executives can't delegate to others. Values implementation is something done by everyone in the company every day. Values-centered management is less a technique or a collection of best practices than a philosophy of management that is grounded in the distinctive set of assumptions about the nature of people, companies, and the role of business in society. Because value-centered management starts with the premise that a company is a moral actor, it is simply a given that an excellent company will be concerned about the consequences of its actions, the rights of its sta...