Morning Briefings

Never ask anyone to do something that you wouldn’t do: This goes for customers (’fill out these twenty-five fields of personal information to get an account’) to employees (’fly coach to Mumbai, meet all day the day you arrive, and fly back that night.’)

– Guy Kawasaki
Five most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur

Memo to law enforcement investigators tracking down who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account: Gabriel Ramuglia might be a good place to start. ‘Usually, this sort of thing would be hard to track down because it’s Yahoo email,’ said the 25-year-old operator of Ctunnel.com, the browsing proxy service used by the group that hacked into the vice presidential candidate’s personal email account. ‘Since they were dumb enough to post a full screenshot that showed most of the URL, I should be able to find that in my log.’

– Dan Goodin
Not Quite Anonymous, The Register

God hates cheating in the marketplace; he loves it when business is aboveboard.

– Eugene H. Peterson on Proverbs 11:1
The Message

Being accused of ‘not being a team player’ is very much a reality in the battle for organizational ethics

– Marianne Jennings
A Business Tale: A Story of Ethics, Choices, Success and a Very Large Rabbit

Rather than think of ethics as the benchmark against which behavior is measured, for many people ethics has come to be equated with something that inflicts pain on a company or some hefty sacrifice.

– Jeffrey L. Seglin
The Good, the Bad and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart

Ethical behavior defines who you really are. If you believe in God, isn’t doing the right thing, honesty, accountability, transparency, humility and consistency all supposed to be our behavioral standard every day because He sees all?

– Mike Paul
The Reputation Doctor

One of the reasons for focusing on appearances is that it’s just easier. Ethical problems are by nature hard.

– Peter Morgan and Glenn Reynolds
The Appearance of Impropriety