Category Archives: ethics

Would You Hire Facebook?

Today’s news, that Facebook hired Burson-Marsteller to “plant negative stories” about their competition got me thinking – if you needed to hire an outside firm for help and you knew they had done something similar, would you hire them? If you already had a contract with them would you terminate their services? Or would you…

Reasons to avoid being an armchair quarterback

(What follows is an updated post based on feedback from my good friend Matt Galloway.) With the Superbowl upon us I thought I might touch on the topic of armchair quarterbacking  - a person who offers advice or an opinion on something in which they have no expertise or involvement the process. I’ve seen this for…