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- Six Steps to an Ethical Business Culture
- A recent white paper from Allegiance, a company which provides what they call Enterprise Feedback Management, attempts to outline a plan for creating an ethical business culture in six steps: Establish an enforceable code of conduct. Initial and ongoing training. Regular communications. Anonymous reporting...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" Defense
- Today's poll deals with whether the concept of "honest services" can cover dishonorable acts. Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who is serving a 24-year prison sentence after he was convicted on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- CEOs as Criminal Fall-Guys?
- Today's poll: Should CEOs be held criminally accountable when their company breaks the law? This November, Colorado voters will decide on a ballot measure that would hold business executives criminally responsible if their companies run afoul of the law. According to the New York Times, the proposal...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
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- Update: Gambling On Business With Friends
- Our poll on how to handle a partner who takes a big gamble on your business has generated some mixed responses, with no clear winner. When you bring personal relationships into starting a business, it appears the old "stick to the deal, no matter how painful it is to the...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Gary Baker: Early Trend Identification
- Gary Baker, founder and President of ClipBlast!, has 20 years of experience in television and interactive media. Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! is a web video search and navigation platform with a focus on user-friendliness and versatility. Baker's interview focuses on the originality of his business structure, including its integrated...
- Videos 2008-03-08
- Where the Chatter is on BNET
- Former CEO Magazine editor, William Holstein, has shaken things up with his post on H1-B visas, with people coming down vehemently on all sides of the issue. What do you think? Are H1-B visas good for America? Do they help keep jobs from going overseas? Or do they solely serve...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Poll: Reporting Fudged Credentials?
- Today's poll deals with something most everyone will face at some point in their career: whether to report a colleague after you come across some damaging information about their history. Your Dilemma: You have long wondered how one of your colleagues, whom you view as being less...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- William Wong: Optimizing Business Communication
- In 2002, William Wong co-founded Language Weaver, a leading developer of enterprise software for language translation. Wong talks about the many business to business translation services Language Weavers offers, and the benefits of breaking the business language barrier.
- Videos 2008-03-08
- Poll: Local Ethics in a Global Business World
- Are ethics absolute, or are they dictated by the context of the society in which the actions take place? If you're doing business in a foreign land where facilitation payments - read: bribes - are a standard part of life, is it acceptable for you (and your company) to follow...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Update: A Trump-Style Pitch
- Update: A Trump-Style PitchThe Long Run "Trumps" the Short RunI agree with William Baker on this issue. If there is a point of naivety, it is that only the client's ethics will be under scrutiny. It is easier to lose this client and maintain your company's ethical health...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Poll: Firing Someone Who Doesn't Deserve It?
- Today's poll deals with a scenario a friend of mine recently found himself in. The problem is simple and all-too-common, but its potential solutions are complex. Your Dilemma: Your boss demands that you fire a subordinate, and you know this is because the two just don't seem...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Poll: Rewarding Ethical Behavior?
- On Tuesday, I mentioned a white paper that outlined six steps to an ethical business culture, and took issue with the fact that one of these steps involved rewarding employees who behaved ethically. But after mulling it over some more - and a comment from my BNet colleague Geoffrey James...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Racist Remarks from a Client: Confront or Ignore?
- A recent blog post over in BNET1 about how job candidate interviewees are flunking etiquette 101 - answering cell phones, bringing children along, using profanity - was, shall we say, humorously disturbing. But this bad behavior has a simple solution: don't hire the person. But poor etiquette...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Poll: Staying "Outside the Box" when Parrots Advance
- Today's poll asks how you would handle a mixed signal from your boss. Your Dilemma: Your boss constantly claims he wants "outside the box" thinkers. Yet each time the staff meets to present ideas to him, he always chooses from those pitches that fit inside his own...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Poll: Gambling On Business With Friends
- Your Dilemma: Two years ago, you went into business with an old friend, opening an Internet sales company. The first year went well initially, but sales became flat after about a year. Your partner argued adamantly that what you needed was a consultant to come in and help gauge your...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Ethics Commission Gets Serious About Ethics
- If the above headline sounds like something you might read in The Onion, that's because this story, out of Nashville, sounds like an Onion plotline. Two years ago, in the wake of a corruption scandal that sent five lawmakers to jail, Tennessee created a state ethics commission...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Poll: The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?
- The last two days have drawn some spirited comments and emails about the issue of whether buying a Toyota Prius as a status-symbol, rather than an eco-friendly mode of transport, is right or wrong. You can read about it here and here. I agree with the people...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Poll: Minority Hiring
- Your dilemma: One year ago, your company hired a new vice-president to oversee recruitment and implement a minority hiring initiative. Since then, minorities have accounted for about 40 percent of new hires, though they represent only 20 percent of applicants, and some long-time employees are whispering that better qualified candidates...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Video: Sin Stocks are Guilt-Free?
- Here's a little video from CNBC about investing in so-called Sin Stocks -- tobacco, gambling, alcohol and defense -- because they hold up well in a recession. There's a lot that can be said on this issue, either way, but I draw your attention to this clip...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Retailers Withholding Figures from Investors?
- Monthly sales figures and annual profit forecasts have long been a staple of the information train that retailers supply to investors and Wall Street. But now many large companies - including Starbucks, Macy's, J.C. Penney and CVS - are backing off on one or both of these practices, arguing that...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
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