Friday, May 18, 2007
C.E.O. Survival Guide: Board Leak
If you don’t want to unleash a full-scale flood of corporate secrets, hone your leak-plugging reflexes.
Leaks happen. They always will. The question is, how will you deal with it. Let’s hope your strategy is different from Hewlett-Packard’s.
H.P.’s investigation into the board member who leaked information involved “pretexting”: getting board members’ phone records as well as those of journalists who reported the leaks. That resulted in felony charges, multimillion-dollar fines, and the chairman and others losing their jobs. If you find your company facing a similar situation, try these tips instead:
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