Examining ethics and compliance issues in business since 1987
Are you in it for 5 years or 50? The trust you earn will determine how long your business lasts
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By Ray Zinn for Entrepreneur
You cannot last long in this world without trust. It creates friendships, keeps partners by your side and grows your businesses.
Trust inspires loyalty, and it extends to businesses as well as people. Venerable brands such as Coca-Cola and Nike understand their committed fans would disappear quickly if they believed that trust was being abused. No marriage and no company can survive if the people who depend on them always are worried that the other party won’t deliver on promises. Read more |
Why are businesses planting microchips in their employees?
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By Rob Waugh for The Telegraph
Embedded technology can put security details and biometric sensors under workers’ skin. How can businesses adopt this ethically?
It looks like something out of science fiction: workers hold their hands up to be scanned and a computer unlocks the door, responding to a microchip the size of a grain of rice embedded in their flesh.
This year, a US vending machine company, Three Square Market, hit the headlines after 50 employees volunteered to be “chipped” to access snacks from machines at work. Meanwhile in Sweden, 75 employees at the Epicenter office space have had microchips implanted subcutaneously, allowing them access to doors and printers in the building. Read more |
The most important trait in a boss is this
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By Marcel Schwantes for Inc.
What’s integrity worth to you? Is it a value you live by in business? Work life? With spouse and kids? Does it define who you are?
Let me up the ante: When you reach the crossroads of choosing between towing the line or taking the higher road and doing the right thing (even when nobody’s looking), what then?
Albert Einstein once said, “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” Read more |
Tech CEO tackles digital ethics and its role in the development of AI & automation
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By Alex Radu for Computer Dealer News
As artificial intelligence and automation continues to develop, organizations all over the world are going to have to start thinking about digital ethics.
As a senior leader of Avanade since its conception in 2000, and its CEO since 2008, Adam Warby is specifically equipped to help answer this question. CDN had a chance to sit down with Warby to discuss accruing talent, the remote workforce, digital ethics and automation, and digital transformation. Read more |
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