Monthly Archives: August 2017

Employee Engagement Surveys, Culture Surveys, and Ethics Surveys

Posted on August 31, 2017 by mmjdiary

Companies, agencies, organizations, and Little League teams, for all the Barometer knows, use all three. In fact, they pay through the nose for experts to come in and run all three. There are two problems. The first is that the … Continue reading →

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The WSJ Remembers Journalism Matters

Posted on August 28, 2017 by mmjdiary

Gerard Baker, the editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal sent an e-mail to the staff of the Journal on their coverage of President Trump. Mr. Baker described the coverage of the president’s trip to Phoenix as overly opinionated, … Continue reading →

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“Do you have anything to say?”

Posted on August 19, 2017 by mmjdiary

Response to Herman Miller CEO, Max De Pree, from a young employee in Herman Miller’s research department when Mr. De Pree told him that he was thinking about writing a book on leadership and requested his help on editing. Now, … Continue reading →

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“[I] got caught in the cross hairs between a very politically ambitious prosecutor [and] a judicial system of juries that don’t really understand sophisticated financial crimes.”

Posted on August 17, 2017 by mmjdiary

Rajat K. Gupta,former Goldman Sachs director, former McKinsey consultant, who was convicted of insider trading for tipping off Raj Rajaratnam (Galleon) about Warren Buffett’s critical $5 billion infusion into Goldman in 2008. Mr. Gupta served a two-year prison sentence, and … Continue reading →

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“They think because they’re doing something disruptive, the regulations that apply to other companies don’t apply to them.”

Posted on August 15, 2017 by mmjdiary

Michael Hansen on Silicon Valley start-ups. Think Uber, Tesla, Turing, Theranos,Yahoo, Chipotle, and a host of new-idea companies. As noted in The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, the culture of innovation means that those within the firm think that the … Continue reading →

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The World-Class Ophthalmologist Out as Med School Dean at USC

Posted on August 3, 2017 by mmjdiary

Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a heck of a dean at the USC medical school. Under his leadership, the school went up in the rankings and hauled in millions in donations. However, it seems there was some extracurricular activity on … Continue reading →

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