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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.

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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
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.

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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
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.
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?
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.

















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