Friday, November 11, 2011

Want to Make Your Employees Feel Truly Valued? Don't Do This.

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Zynga, the maker of great time-wasters like FarmVille, is obviously brilliant when it comes to motivating customers. Motivating employees? N...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Olympus Continues its Fall

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The Olympus debacle, as I noted last month (see original posts here and here ), seemed at first like an interesting culture clash between i...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Just How Trustworthy is that Trustworthy Guy in the Corner Office?

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You know how, when someone is arrested for a truly heinous crime, there's always a neighbor interviewed who says something along the lin...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Is the Goldman Halo Slipping? (Please Tell Me It Is)

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"But -- he was at Goldman ." For a long time now there's been a halo around Goldman Sachs, despite the occasional outrageous m...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

A Footnote re Culture Clashes

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Just two days ago, I posted some comments on the debacle at Olympus. Several days had already passed since the first stories broke about th...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Make Haste Slowly, Please

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Let's say you've developed a nifty new medical device, and -- best yet! -- you've gotten some venture-capital financing to help ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Culture Clash, or Egregious Ethics?

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When the news broke about ten days ago that Olympus -- the Japanese company best know for its digital cameras, although its medical equipmen...