Business Insight Zone

At footnoted*, Michelle Leder tells the happy story of Jacobs Engineering, which took the high road in terms of investor transparency and reaped financial rewards.

Doing good by doing well?

. . . while it’s obviously too simplistic to say there’s a direct cause and effect here, I’d argue that this type of openness does have an impact because it shows that a company’s management isn’t wasting time and resources trying to shove problems under the proverbial mattress (read: holed up with lawyers and accountants trying to bury it deep in an SEC filing) and, instead, is focused on executing their business.

It’s revolutionary, I tell you!

Kudos to Michelle and kudos to Jacobs Engineering. Say what you mean and mean what you say, and you’ll never have to worry about keeping your story straight.

Category: Management, The language of business