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What do you all think of this?
Competitive assurance may not involve torture. But it does sometimes involve lying or misrepresentation. There's the old headhunter trick, for instance, or the potential investor who just has to know a company's R&D plans. The ruses are endlessly varied, and what many executives may not realize is that they are perfectly legal. Lying to obtain information is not even cause for a successful trade secret lawsuit?unless the imposter has signed a nondisclosure agreement. Ironically, the only party who can legitimately be charged with a trade secret violation is, in many cases, the employee who unwittingly shared the crown jewels. "It's not illegal to misrepresent yourself," says R. Mark Halligan, an expert on trade secret law and a principal with the Chicago law firm Welsh & Katz. "And the pretext itself is not actionable."
Read the whole thing here: http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060101/defense.html
It?s VERY interesting!
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Maureen, This was an exceptionally interesting article!
Now...in response to the "headhunter tricks" and lying to try to get information or a candidate, my husband has been a recruiter for over 16 years & decided early on in his career that he wouldn't lie. He's stood by it & to my knowledge has never broken that promise to himeself.
It's funny, though, because he was working with another headhunter in the past who used pretty much any method he could to find candidates or information he wanted. There were several instances when John had to bail him out of his lies by taking over the interview process with that candidate.
This headhunter would lie to get in the door but then would realize that to continue to lie would destroy his credibility with the candidate (and with the client if it ever got out). Without the credibility he had no foundation to continue to pursue the candidate, so John took over. He ended up making things more complicated than they needed to be (poor guy was stressed out pretty consistently over it) and ended up giving up some of his commissions to John for his help.
Interesting! Stacie
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