Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Just How "Rigorous" Should a "Rigorous Inspection" Be?

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Many years ago, I worked for an automotive manufacturer. It was a common saying that "all new cars are alike, but every used car is d...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Do The Right Thing, Even If You Don't Want To... And It Just Might Be Profitable, Too

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It's depressing when someone has to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing... and then turns around and makes a ginormou...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

We All Knew It. And Now There Seems to be Proof.

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There's a flurry of activity in the stock of Company X, for no apparent reason. And then, after the fact, after the acquisition (or merg...
Monday, June 16, 2014

How Much Harder Can We Make It to be Poor?

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Once again, I find two unrelated articles resonating in my head: an opinion piece in Sunday's New York Times  Sunday Review section, ...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Do You Really Want to Know What's Going On in Your Organization? Or Are You Just Pretending?

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Three articles in the last four days in the New York Times provide a great explanation of why I'm so hung up on Trust and Transparency....
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

What Do Drug Companies Make?

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It sounds like a trick question, doesn't it? And at one level, it is. Andrew Ross Sorkin, in a DealBook column in today's New Yor...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Parlez-vous "Trolley"?

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Or maybe I should say, Sprechen Sie Trolley? A fascinating article in last week's Economist suggests that we think about moral issue...