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Bernard Moon reflects on Professor Phillip Zimbardo's TED 2008 Presentation, "Will Evil Prevail?" and challenges us to face the evil around us and within us.
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.
Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.
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I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people. What does it do to help these people find common cause with each other? [...]
Thomas J. Watson
Second in Bernard Moon's two-part recollection on how business ethics can be passed from one generation to the next.
Inc.com reports the finding from a recent Harris Interactive poll for Deloitte & Touche in Stress and Long Hours Prompt Employees to Lie, Cheat, and Steal. The article summarizes two key findings from a poll of over 1,000 employees nationwide this past February.
Some advertisers think about how to get someone else to tighten his belt while the truth comes out: They think we're stupid.
More than two decades after immigrating to the U.S. my parents returned to Korea to establish a coffee chain. They were young when they first emigrated from South Korea and their formative business ventures were in the United States.
A Roman Catholic order acquires a Pfizer biotech lab to develop cures for cancer and gains influence to push for more ethical practices in the pharmaceutical industry. Dan Wooldridge asks how we can push for positive change within our own industries.
Every two years the Josephson Institute conducts a national survey of ethics among U.S. high school students. The results of the 2008 survey "paint a troubling picture of our future politicians and parents, cops and corporate executives, and journalists and generals."
Dan Wooldridge follows up on Jim Hancock's post on Enron: Innovation Corrupted with thoughts on how worldview trumps values in decisionmaking and the impact that has on personal and corporate life.
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Salt preserves and light warns: we have a responsibility to resist evil influences and to be alert to moral danger in the workplace. Salt flavors and light guides: we have a responsibility to enhance what is good and to witness to Christ. Above all, salt glistens and light shines: we have a responsibility to be true to our nature, [...]
Richard Higginson
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Attempting to codify its ethical practices, Levi Strauss & Co. first adopted a ‘compliance–based program.’...However clear and comprehensive, the list did not work. )Chairman and CEO, Robert) Haas explains: ‘First, rules beget rules. And regulations beget regulations. We became buried in paperwork, and any time we faced a unique ethical issue, [...]
John Dalla Costa
Sales. Is it persuasion or manipulation? Dan Wooldridge notes that it is a matter of understanding the goal of the sales process.
Dan Wooldridge uncovers the true formula for decision making, in business and in life.
Ad Age asks: "Did Wal-Mart overstep its bounds with a holiay website that allows children to build a toy wish list that the retailer e-mails to their parents?
Dan Wooldridge points out that the rampant cheating in schools will eventually have a long term impact in business performance and the quality of our society.
Harvard Law's Elizabeth Warren chronicles the American middle class at risk in her Social Science Research Council paper, "Rewriting the Rules: Families, Money and Risk." Underneath the surface issues, usury raises its ugly head.
Employee theft costs businesses 10 times more than street crime. Small businesses are most vulnerable due to the trusting environments they create.
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.
When a Coke employee offered to sell trade secrets to Pepsi, Pepsi blew the whistle.
Comments about sparse attendance at an ethics forum at the Direct Marketing Association's annual show a few years ago, got Allan Lunsford thinking about the irreplaceable value of trust in business.
Donald McGilchrist was kind enough to share this bibliography on business ethics and corporate corruption.
Harvard Business School's Rafael Di Tella comments on a Harvard Business Review case study called The Shakedown. At stake in the scenario: should a business pay bribes to compete in an emerging market? Forget about emerging markets, what about the G8?
If there were scandalous goings-on behind Tiger Woods' one-car accident, we're not likely to find out the details. To which Jim Hancock can only say, "So what?" Because, honestly, don't we all have plenty to worry about behind our own closed doors?
What do you do when you see the chance to make a quick buck for the company with very little downside? A Seth Godin reader posed that question for real: The offer to spam three million addresses with no threat of blacklisting for just 500 bucks.
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.
PayPal's top ten tips for spotting emails designed to steal your personal data.
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.
In an interview with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Pultizer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson lamented to loss of biblical insight in US business law.
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