Google Question #4- Nicole Damboise

Google's mission statement is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessable and useful. Google examines billions of web pages to find the most relevant pages for any query and typically returns those results in less than half a second. No other search engine accesses more of the Internet or delivers more useful information than Google. Google's vision is to provide people from around the world with fast, relevent information. Google's core competency is an internet search engine, that gets the information people are looking for immidiately from anywhere in the world.

My reaction to Tip # 4-Nicole Damboise

I feel that more companies should take initiative of the concept "fire for cause". A lot of these businesses are losing money in a result of "firing for failure". For example, a costly output of three CEO's resulted in millions of dollars. I agree that a business should state in contract, like Walt Disney, that if the CEO deny's to be investigated or refuse to give a testimony then that is a legitimate reason to fire a CEO. Since this was stated in contract the company can save those millions of dollars for outputing CEO'S.

The Collapse of Enron-Summary of Question #3

How might the culture of the company under the leadership of Lay and Skilling have contributed to Enron's ethical problems?

Everyone basically agreed with what Nerrisa and said that Lay and Skilling have no ethics at all, which make them horrible leaders. The first mistake was when Lay continued with partnerships even when he was told about all of the risks of having a partnership. Then, Jeff Skilling, his successor decided to move out 15 percent of the employees that were considered "underperformers" every six months. He lied on performance appraisals and made certain employees look better than they actually were.
Both Lay and Skilling only looked out for themselves and took no time to look at the harm they caused to others. This display of bad ethics and poor leadership eventually came crashing down with the fall of the Enron company.