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The Wolf Among Us
The decisions you make today will be with you for years.
We often determine how we’ll handle a project, a product launch, or an event as part of a set of annual or quarterly initiatives. We’re driven by immediate needs to show results, whether it’s to our boss, a client, or investors.
And in the heat of those moments, as we’re pressured to deliver according to schedule, we may miss longer-term implications because of short-term needs.
A case in point is Facebook, which is back in the news, due to the Cambridge Analytica data dust-up and the U.K.’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. At issue is not only Facebook’s questionable decisions about its data policy in past years, but how Facebook representatives “deliberately misled” the committee in testimony late last year.
The committee was so outraged with Facebook that they considered social network to be skirting along the criminal world: “Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law.”
Even if we can forgive Facebook’s decisions in the years leading up to the election and chalk it up as lack of foresight or a result of a lack of coordination internally, it’s getting more difficult to overlook the transgressions above. The leadership has been…
