The Skouting Report for March 2012 is now available
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David Gebler was named to Trust Across America’s 2012 list of Top Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior. See the full list
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The Ethics Resource Center, a Washington DC based ethics research organization, released its 2011 National Business Ethics Survey. The NBES is regarded as the premier survey of ethics issues in the American workplace. This year’s survey identified some interesting trends: On the one hand, misconduct has reached an historic low and observers of wrongdoing are… [...]
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The unfolding sage at Penn State will continue to provide critical lessons on how the pressure to meet financial goals can cloud our judgment. As was reported today on Bloomberg: “There is so much money tied into big-time college athletics that it forces some people to make bad decisions,” Harris said in a telephone interview. [...]
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Read what people in the know are saying about The 3 Power Values
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From an organizational perspective the questions raised by the scandal at Penn State relate to the culture, at the university and within the football program. Bad things may always happen, but it should be unacceptable to permit a culture to exist that both does not permit questionable behavior to be reported, as well as potentially [...]
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Recently in the Wall Street Journal Robert Sutton highlighted the destructive influence of a few bad characters on an organization’s entire corporate culture. According to Sutton, “Leaders who let a few bad apples in the door—perhaps in exchange for political favors—or look the other way when employees are rude or incompetent are setting the stage [...]
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David Gebler, an expert in corporate culture, ethics and values, recently lead a 75-minute discussion at Bentley University on what are the root causes of why good employees do bad things. In a program sponsored by the Design and Usability Center and the Center for Business Ethics, Gebler showed how key fundamentals of social psychology [...]
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David Gebler quoted in CFO Magazine article on Creating a Culture of Compliance
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The Wall St. Journal reported today that Western companies including Cisco Systems Inc. have been contracted to build an ambitious new surveillance project in China —a citywide network of as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will prevent crime but that human- rights advocates warn could target political dissent. US law is generally fairly [...]
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