My expense account is my second income
Thruout my career, I was known for living cheap on the road and not abusing expenses. No one ever knew that no matter who I worked for, I was an expert on making an expense account a second income.
April 29, 2006
Business Ethics Magazine Lists '100 Best Corporate Citizens' for 2006
Business Ethics Magazine has released its annual survey of the "100 Best Corporate Citizens". The closely-watched survey has gained national recognition as an indicator of best practices in the area of corporate social responsibility.
The top 10 companies are:
* Green Mountain Coffee Roasters of Waterbury, Vermont, which has been among the top 10 companies on Business Ethics' list for four years running.
* Hewlett-Packard (No. 2) is enjoying its seventh time in the top 10,
* Advanced Micro Devices (No. 3) makes its first appearance on the list.
* Motorola (No. 4) is enjoying its third time in the top 10,
* Agilent Technologies (No. 5) its second time.
Others in the top 10 are list newcomers:
* Salesforce.com (No. 7)
* Cisco Systems (No. 8). Dell (No. 9) leaped from No. 71 last year,
* Texas Instruments (No. 10) moved up from No. 50.
April 28, 2006
Took the clients with me
Before I quit my job, I let all the clients I served know that I was starting my own company and made deals to take several of them with me. I know it hurt the company, but I brought in several of those clients and never got a percentage of the fees they paid.
April 25, 2006
Nobody Really Cares
After my manager dissed me, i would log on to the company system using his name and order equipment for myself. -- the more expensive the beter.Stuff I always wanted but coulod never afford.
I'd get in real early and pick up the packages. The shipping guys didn't care and looked the other way. Anytime anone crossed me, I'd start ordering stuff.l I've done it for years, for stuf worth thousands. It's probably not ethical, but it i very satisfying
April 24, 2006
Dupont Requires Vendors to Follow WOMMA Code of Ethics
Dupont has become the first Fortune 100 marketer to require its employees and vendors worldwide to follow the Word of Mouth Marketing Association's (WOMMA) Code of Ethics
The WOMMA code demands that consumers disclose their relationship with marketers; that they be allowed to form their own honest opinions; and that everyone discloses their true identity.
Gary Spangler, DuPont's representative to WOMMA, said, "DuPont's proactive adoption of this ethics code is a leading example of self-regulation in this emerging field."
April 21, 2006
House Ethics Committee Investigates Itself
The top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel - at least temporarily - while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday.
The House Ethics Committee, which has been unable to agree on what to investigate for the past year and a half, will now investigate itself.
Since the beginning of last year, the leaders fought over internal rules and staffing, and in a recent meeting discussed - but were unable to agree - on launching any new investigations.
April 13, 2006
Three Plays on Business Ethics Highlight Milwaukee Rep Season
The Milwaukee Journal reports that the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre is doing three plays on business ethics this year! "They are all about business and how the dynamics of business works," says the theater's artistic director Joseph Hanreddy.
The trilogy features Garson Kanin's 1946 comedy "Born Yesterday," about an uncouth business tycoon going to Washington, D.C., to buy political favors; David Mamet's comedy "Glengarry Glen Ross," about a "shark tank that masquerades as a real estate sales office"; and "The Voysey Inheritance," a 1905 drama that looks at a family's lucrative business and the attempts by a member of the younger generation to reform the company's dishonest practices.
Nuanced multilanguage translations can impact your search engine rankings
In WebProWorld's Google forum today, (registration required) the publisher of an Irish travel site wonders whether Google penalizes for spellings in Oxford English as opposed to American English.
Respondents point out that if you are looking for high rankings in Google UK or other European versions of Google, Oxford English spellings may provide an advantage in rankings.
Multi-Language Blog Translations Are Colorful
Multilanguage translations of blogs are non-existent, as English is still very much the dominant language in blogs. But the term "A-List blogger" has many translations. I've been described as "blogeuse professionale" and "Top-Bloggerin."
April 10, 2006
New Ethics for Tech Journalists in the New Economy?
Salon reports that, more and more, tech journalists invest in companies they write about, thereby "reinterpreting the traditional rules governing conflict of interest. What was once a matter of black-and-white ethics has lately turned a murky shade of gray."
David Yarnold, the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News, recently wrote in an editorial:
"It's only human for a journalist covering technology to be tempted by the vast wealth in this valley, and that's an argument for ongoing and clear discussion about what's permissible and what's not."Posted by SRF Global Translations
Business Ethics: Not to Get Caught vs What's Right
Bruce Weinstein PhD, syndicated "Ask the Ethics Guy" columnist, disagrees with a recent study that says businesses are getting more ethical.
"I think in general the ethical standards in the business world have slipped in recent years. I believe that often the standard operating procedure is "not to get caught" rather than "to do what's right." I'm not sure why acceptable business ethics standards have changed, but the faster pace of life and the greater tendency for executives to move around the country and the world seems to have created an era of less accountability."And, he says, "even in the post-Enron era, boards of directors are still reluctant to exact punishment on executives who misbehave but escape legal prosecution."
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April 05, 2006
Google Lists Unethical Businesses
Here's a Google listing no company wants to find itself on!
USA Today: Unending ethics scandals beset Congress
A USA Today editorial ntoes:
Beyond the arrogance of individual members is the arrogance of Congress as a whole - the attitude that it can safely ignore or finesse public outrage over its sleazy links with lobbyists, contractors and others trying to manipulate the system for private gain.
The lesson should be obvious: Voters' tolerance for congressional arrogance does have its limits.
Not so far.
April 03, 2006
Businesses Getting More Ethical Says 17 Year Study
The ethics of business leaders and professionals in companies large and small has improved over the past 17 years, according to a study published by Baylor University researchers in the April issue of the Journal of Small Business Management.
The study was based on responses from more than 5,000 managers of both small companies and large, publicly traded firms in all 50 states. The authors mailed surveys to 5000 respondents in 1985, 1993, and 2001 asking them to judge the degree to which they found 16 scenarios compatible to their own ethical views. The business situations ranged from the illegal to the debatable. Situations included:
- An executive earning $50,000 a year padded his expense account by about $1500 a year.Responses were in a seven point range from 1 (never acceptable) to 7 (always acceptable.)-A small business received one fourth of its gross revenue in the form of cash. The owner reported only one half of the cash receipts for income tax purposes.
The study showed that entrepreneurs and small businesses tended to be less ethical in the 1993 study, but now don't seem fundamentally different.
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