Opinion

A Nation of Cheaters?

There is a cultural trend that bodes ill for CSOs—an epidemic of willful disregard for rules and regulations.

By Derek Slater

property lines nor company policies nor network perimeters nor intellectual property rights are

respected.

Will the situation ever improve? Callahan thinks so; he says this kind of cultural tide is cyclical.

Callahan's prescription for making a difference, long term, is simply to treat employees well. "Fairness,

inclusive management, profit sharing, transparency, all that stuff makes a big difference toward

creating an environment where people are less likely to try to rip off their employer," he says.

Regardless of whether that will work, many of those decisions lie outside the CSO's sphere of control.

And in the meantime, if Callahan is right (and if my Yahoo Games experience is any indication), you've

got a lot of cheaters to deal with.

–Derek Slater

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