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Malcolm Salter's book may be the best informed treatment of Enron so far. And the questions he can't answer may be even more significant than those he can.
David Batstone: Saving the Corporate Soul -- and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own
Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Wealth and Well-Being for You and Your Company Without Selling Out
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Batstone, the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, among other endeavors, outlines eight principles for building corporate integrity and profitability without compromising your own values.
Some advertisers think about how to get someone else to tighten his belt while the truth comes out: They think we're stupid.
TheAmigo
Underlying Brazil's daily struggle with corruption is a feeling among many business professionals, at least those who try to be honest, that changing the business environment is impossible. They feel impotent and deeply frustrated. Sound familiar?
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Such companies have a personality and what some have called a soul. You can almost smell it, when it is there. I once asked my students to walk into an office or a plant and without speaking to anyone, to make a guess at what kind of environment it would be to work in, [...]
Charles Handy
Strategic vision. Long range vision. A vision for innovation or new markets or services. Dan Wooldridge is convinced all these are ultimately outgrowths of a leader's inner vision.
Bernard Moon comments on the sad irony attending the collapse of the last remaining Structured Investment Vehicle — a fund managed by London-based Gordian Knot Limited
Gap's gift wrapping suggestion provides an example of how integrity and ethics plays out in the little things that a company does. Dan Wooldridge points out that little things are big things when it comes to character.
Donald McGilchrist developed this timely bibliography on preventing and responding to corporate corruption.
Microsoft routinely delivers software once a month, on Patch Tuesday. When someone hacked a Microsoft digital rights management application, the company issued a patch in three days. Why the difference? Customers think they know...
In an August 17 2006 ruling Federal District Court Judge Gladys Kessler found that American tobacco companies are guilty of conspiracy and racketeering. It turns out Wall Street doesn't mind.
Playing some Sony music CDs secretly installs hacker tool on your computer. Sony insists that it's just there for copy protection. Dan Wooldridge explains why treating your customer as if they were the enemy is not the way good businesses are run.
Seven active U.S lawmakers are under investigation, indicted or have pled guilty to conspiracy, securities fraud, tax evasion, campaign funding violations or other illegal acts. Yikes.
After only 10 Days, Sony pulled it's rootkit-enabled CDs. Amazing the power of marketplace forces! So, where does Sony go from here? Do they become more secretive, or more honest and open?
On May 25, 2006, Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty on 25 of a combined 35 counts against them. Now everyone agrees folks had to look the other way to not see it coming.
The United States Tennis Association will forego at least four million dollars a year in naming rights to "do the right thing." What assets would you protect at the cost of four million dollars in annual profits?
Sony's rootkit -- and especially their rootkit removal instructions -- make a computer an easier target for other attacks. Meanwhile, corporate IT departments are playing damage control. How did we get here?
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