This cracks me up. It’s a shame that there are “appalling” working conditions at the Foxconn factory that include excessive overtime and public humiliation, but this isn’t the answer. After all, how do you enforce a no suicide pledge (TUAW.com)? What can you do to someone who’s already dead?

Sounds like management has to smarten up and start acting like it’s the 21^st century where we treat employees fairly.

When I was young, it was ‘C’ is for Cookie and that was good enough for me. But it seems these days that ‘C’ is for ‘Criterion’ since, every time I turn around, we have another ‘model’ built entirely of ‘criterions’ that start with ‘C’.

There’s the The (Sourcing Innovation) 9 Cs of Site Selection, which is an expanded version of the Strategy + Business Five C’s of Site Selection.

There’s the Three C’s of Procurement (Central).

There’s the 6 Cs AchieveGlobal Model of Innovation Culture.

There’s the Five Cs of Credit Definition.

And the 3 Cs of Information Commerce.

We’re a crazy criterion culture obsessed with confusing configuration and it’s getting hard to cope without my cookie!

Okay then. Your peers who do will show a return on assets six times higher than your company achieves. If you don’t want to make “the case for an open communication culture”, then your chances of creating customer loyalty top out at 64% compared to your peers. And since a 5% increase in loyalty creates a 25% to 95% profit increase, can you really afford to be losing 36% of potential loyalty? Think about it.

So what is an open communication culture? It’s one in which information flows freely and is easily accessible to both insiders and to the public at large. And, consistent with the culture and values of the organization, its leadership enables, advocates and provides open access to information in which employees, customers, shareholders and the general public have a legitimate interest. Pretty straight-forward, eh? So why don’t you have one?