Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Wealth and Well-Being for You and Your Company Without Selling Out
Batstone, the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, among other endeavors, outlines eight principles for building corporate integrity and profitability without compromising your own values.
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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…
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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.
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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?
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Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
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.
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The Ethics of Gift Wrapping
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.
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Bribery and the Culture of Politics
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.
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It begins with Inner Vision
Strategic vision. Long range vision. A vision for innovation or new markets or services. All of these are ultimately outgrowths of a leader’s inner vision.
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
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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Where Do We Go From Here?
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?
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The Failure of Corporate Responsibility
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.
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A Reader's Bibliography On Corporate Corruption
Donald McGilchrist developed this timely bibliography on preventing and responding to corporate corruption.
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