The What… and The How

A quick three question quiz:
1) Who was the HP Chairman who resigned her position over the recent HP Board leak investigation scandal?
Right, Patricia Dunn. You probably knew that.
2) Who was the HP Board member who was widely reported to have done the leaking that precipitated the investigation?
Can’t remember? It was George Keyworth.
3) For [...]

“…so this is a tragedy for us.”

Following so closely on the heels of a couple of postings about declines in company reputations, I must put forth a plea to my colleagues: let us please be careful in our language.
Over last couple of days: 94 confirmed cases of e coli in the United states due to contaminated packaged spinach; 14 gravely ill [...]

“Reputation” gaining on “corruption”

OK, here’s a silly little thing.
Check out this Google Trends display. There’s a suggestion that we’re becoming increasingly more interested in “reputation” than in “corruption” (except perhaps in Washington, DC, as the chart shows). That’s an encouraging little social sign, no?
Perhaps we are what we search.
(Posted by Ray Jordan)

Unraveling one slender thread around reputation

Sometimes you get some interesting pieces to a puzzle; and only months later as more pieces arrive do you start to see how they may be fitting together.
Let’s try putting a couple of pieces together on the topic of business reputation in the United States, thanks in large measure to data generated from the often [...]