Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a pretty common element among medium and large companies, especially those who have, or who aspire to have, a global presence. A 2017 KPMG study found that, in every industry they examined, at least 60% of companies surveyed included CSR information in the corporate reports. Why? A view expressed […]

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, we took the concept of honor pretty seriously. Later, as a professor at the US Air Force Academy, we also thought honor was pretty important, and discussed the concept a lot with cadets before they went off to be Air Force lieutenants. One of the […]

A former colleague who has been at a large international organization got some bad news earlier this summer. For 2 years he worked with this group on a contract basis in a part-time status, which is their normal “probationary” style of bringing on new employees. Throughout this fiscal year he was told he would be […]

I took my undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, where we took the concept of honor, and the Honor System, very seriously. UVA is highly regarded for its strict (and completely student-run) honor system, with one sanction for students found guilty of an honor violation: expulsion. The idea behind that was simple. When a […]

Rightly or wrongly, Singapore has a reputation as a very kiasu society, where “fear of losing out” dominates daily interactions. So it was great to see an example there last weekend of how to be exactly the opposite; the odd thing was, it came from a sport typically viewed as an individual, rather than team-based, […]