Harvard Business Review – Whitewashing business executives is their core business

In the latest edition of “Executive utilizes Harvard Business Review to whitewash their activities” we have Hubert Joly, CEO of Best Buy, who informs us that we should all

• Making meaningful purpose a genuine priority of business operations
• The “human magic” of empowered and self-directed employees
• Admitting you don’t have all the answers is a sign of strong leadership.

Let’s see how Best Buy puts those practices in place.

• They engage in lies (and illegal activities) to prevent unions
• The company has a long history of standing in the way of improving workers lives
• And contrary to the article, laid off thousands of workers this year

It is hard to take the editors of HBR seriously when they discuss what a good company culture looks like when they whitewash corporate leaders with this sort of track record.

Probably Best Buy paid a lot of money for the reputation bump just before Christmas.