Spying is fun, but only in a movie
Tags: spy – hp – private investigator – competitive intelligence – corporate espionage
While I am proud to say that I work (and have worked) with some of the brightest people on the planet, like any other executive, I have had my share of idiots, retards, morons, and simply obnoxious colleagues, clients, and associates. In my professional career, whenever I have run into these people, I have wondered how could they get to a C-level job in some cases. In case you are wondering too, the Hewlett-Packard drama shows that even at the very top of corporate America we have people who should have never been there in the first place.
I have some competitive intelligence background, but what happened at HP was not only unethical and criminal, but stupid. From what I know, even real spys and private investigators have some ethical standards, but the top management at HP got so obsessed with finding the source of the leak that they ended up making a fool of themselves.
While competitive intelligence and employee monitoring are fairly commonplace (though not always ethically and legally executed, and many companies confuse competitive intelligence and corporate espionage, which is illegal), leaks are hard to stop and even harder to investigate. Even governments all over the world struggle to maintain secrets.
Many of us love spy thrillers and I would love to be James Bond for a day, but your place of work is not the place for your spy fantasy.
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