The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse Is Out!
My new book, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: How To Spot Moral Meltdowns in Companies Before It’s Too Late is now available. Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, the whole gang, they all have the book.
Over 30 years of work and 3 decades of scandal went into this book. We can all click our tongues and wag our fingers over the backdating of stock options, but we have to ask, “How did this go on for so long in so many companies (80 now under investigation) without anyone raising a hand and asking, “Is there a problem with this? Did we cross a line or two here?”
Rather than just forcing employees, boards, and managers to sit through ethics training, we should be refocusing our efforts on much tougher curbs for unethical and illegal conduct. My book represents the next step in ethics — how to prevent a stock options scandal, not train after it happens. The best part is that now shareholders and investors can profile companies with ethical risk. Perhaps they can even start the wheels in motion for meaningful changes in organizations that can curb the yeehaw culture that has consumed too many. Learn what a yeehaw culture is. Find out specific items to look for in organizations that mean trouble lies ahead. This is not a book that tells the stories of scandals. This is a book that ties the patterns in the scandals together. With apologies to Tolstoy, all unethical organizations are alike. Knowing the common factors and the antidotes are the two critical pieces of knowledge missing in compliance and ethics programs. This book is the next gigantic leap for ethics in organizations.
