This last week I had the honor of being interviewed for The Whistleblower Newsroom, a podcast by whistleblowers, for whistleblowers, developed and hosted by journalists Celia Farber, TruthBarrier.com, and Kristina Borjesson. Although I had visited with Ms. Borjesson several times on the phone over the last three years, we first met last November at the… [Read More]
Everybody Lies!
You can’t pick up a newspaper, turn on a news channel or be online without getting the latest on the college admission bribery scandal. In fact, a federal college admissions probe has led to the criminal indictment of more than 50 people nationwide and sparked a class action lawsuit. This latest round involves lying, cheating… [Read More]
Should this bill pass?
Billed as a consumer-protection effort, Texas State Senator Angela Paxton’s Senate Bill 860, which is based on a 2018 Arizona law, would grant broad powers to the attorney general’s consumer protection division. However this proposal would empower the office of her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, to exempt entrepreneurs from certain state regulations so they… [Read More]
Brigham Young University: Practicing What They Preach
It is always a privilege to be invited to speak at a University to accounting and business students and their faculty. This last week I had that honor- of presenting to Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management and Wheatley Institution, to these groups on ethics and how important integrity is in the business world…. [Read More]
SERVANT LEADERSHIP in action.
Business Navigators is a unique business networking group dedicated to furthering the core values of servant leadership and trusted relationships through educational and charitable activities in the Dallas/Fort Worth community. Their philosophy is “To give is better than to receive.” They focus on “… what we can do as individuals and as an organization to… [Read More]
Stock Buyouts are Tilting the “Apple” Cart!
What do Apple, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Applied Materials, among many others, have in common … they have been splurging on repurchasing their own stock at a high dollar, and seeing the value of their stock purchases sharply decline. Apple spent about $62.9 billion on buybacks in the first nine months of 2018, with the market reducing that value… [Read More]
Why is Wells Fargo Still Struggling?
Wells Fargo is once again in the news and not in a positive way. Still struggling with the fallout from the fake accounts scandal two of its senior executives, Hope Hardison, the bank’s Chief Administrative Officer and David Julian, its Chief Auditor have been placed on leave at the request of regulators at the Office… [Read More]
TRUST Matters! How to Build a Tier One Organization…
The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), the oldest ethics research and best practice community in the US has conducted longitudinal, cross-sectional studies of workplace conduct from the employee’s perspective since 1994. It, recently released its latest Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES) Building Companies Where Values and Ethical Conduct Matter, the third of a four-part series… [Read More]
Strategy and Culture: Divided they fall.
A well thought out strategy and a vibrant, responsible culture are the two top tools at leaderships’ disposal in their never-ending quest to maintain organizational viability and effectiveness… Culture expresses goals through values and beliefs and guides activities through assumptions and group norms. A corporate culture matters. It is a key differentiator between the companies… [Read More]
Responsible Leadership – Does It Exist?
Building a culture of responsible leadership that earns the respect of all stakeholders is challenging. In the last several articles I talk about culture, define it and how important it is to the successful outcomes of any organization. And I continue to emphasize that a culture that is built on sound ethical principles has a… [Read More]
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