Morning Briefings

Armstrong stripped of Olympic bronze medal: Thirteen years after he stood on the podium in Sydney, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Olympics because of doping.

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The Associated Press

She turned to ‘borrowing’ from clients to cover her business and personal expenses with the intention of paying them back, but it just ‘spiraled out of control.’ In March, Durkee pleaded guilty to embezzling from more than 50 of her clients.

– Brian Joseph, The Orange County Register
Durkee sentenced to 8 years in prison, ordered to pay $10.5 million in restitution

There is a big difference between an image and a reputation. An image is usually short term and can be an illusion. Public images are often fabricated and untrue. A reputation is what you actually are (both good and bad) and is built on a foundation of truth.

– Mike Paul, Top Ten Reputation Management Tips from
Reputation Doctor blog

Insomnia-producing ethical dilemmas do not usually embody the kinds of straightforward conflicts or temptations that an intelligent twelve-year-old would recognize and astutely resolve if asked, ‘What’s the right thing to do?’ The real thorny ethical challenges are typically subtle, often involve the welfare of more than one person or group, characteristically require the rapid and intuitive calculation of probable consequences, and always occur in real time.

– Clinton W. McLemore
Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul

The organizations behind the SAT and ACT college-entrance exams said Tuesday they are imposing stricter security measures for test-takers nationwide in response to a cheating scandal that erupted in New York.

– Will James, The Wall Street Journal
College Tests Get New ID Standards

Infamous frauds and financial crises have wrecked the public’s faith in business in recent years, leading many to try to repair the damage by emphasizing codes of ethics. But we do not have a crisis of ethics in business today. We have a crisis of trust.

– Robert Hurley, The Wall Street Journal
Trust Me

For if a man will betray God, he will surely betray man.

– Gereon Goldmann
The Shadow of His Wings

Customers Who Eat and Run: A dine-and-dash spree hits high-end restaurants. “It’s is always very hard to identify the people that are going to do this—they look civilized and well-dressed,” said Atul Kohhar, chef of the Michelin-starred Benares, which has experienced two dine-and-dash occurrences in the last six months.

– Clarissa Cruz
Inc.com

Ethical behavior defines who you really are. If you believe in God, isn’t doing the right thing, honesty, accountability, transparency, humility and consistency all supposed to be our behavioral standard every day because He sees all?

– Mike Paul
The Reputation Doctor

Rather than think of ethics as the benchmark against which behavior is measured, for many people ethics has come to be equated with something that inflicts pain on a company or some hefty sacrifice.

– Jeffrey L. Seglin
The Good, the Bad and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart