I would love to be able to disagree with you more on the above, but I can not. I believe that Mzinga respected their employees enough to not go public with the information until the entire staff was informed. No one had any right to inform Jeremiah and no one had any right to report on it until it was actual news, and until the information was shared with the employees.

I would love to be able to disagree with you more on the above, but I can not. I believe that Mzinga respected their employees enough to not go public with the information until the entire staff was informed. No one had any right to inform Jeremiah and no one had any right to report on it until it was actual news, and until the information was shared with the employees.

Jeremiah is a very talented individual and no doubt is well-respected in the field. My opinion of him has not changed and I continue to become a more well-informed individual because of his sharing of information. He has realized what could have been done differently and (as mentioned in his post below) is planning to learn from the experience. This was bound to happen and I hope that we can all learn from this situation.

Jeremiah is a very talented individual and no doubt is well-respected in the field. My opinion of him has not changed and I continue to become a more well-informed individual because of his sharing of information. He has realized what could have been done differently and (as mentioned in his post below) is planning to learn from the experience. This was bound to happen and I hope that we can all learn from this situation.

I would love to be able to disagree with you more on the above, but I can not. I believe that Mzinga respected their employees enough to not go public with the information until the entire staff was informed. No one had any right to inform Jeremiah and no one had any right to report on it until it was actual news, and until the information was shared with the employees.

Jeremiah is a very talented individual and no doubt is well-respected in the field. My opinion of him has not changed and I continue to become a more well-informed individual because of his sharing of information. He has realized what could have been done differently and (as mentioned in his post below) is planning to learn from the experience. This was bound to happen and I hope that we can all learn from this situation.

The real fault lies with Mzinga — confronted with the fact that multiple independent sources had been telling a critical industry analyst that there was a problem, they elected NOT to immediately brief him on the situation. That is an enormous mistake and actually points to Jeremiah's information being accurate.

Your comparison to battlefield information is at best an ad hominem — there is no way in which the class of problem of Mzinga having financial difficulties should be compared with the men and women of our armed forces putting their lives at risk.

A better comparison would be the collapse of aig or bear stearns or lehman (or enron!) — would it have been responsible for an analyst to blow the whistle on those companies before their collapse and say to their clients and constituents – “hey, I think something fishy is going on here!”

“What I do next is what matters” — a great takeaway lesson for anyone reading. Social media is chock full of people and companies who parachute in, use the medium to deliver THEIR message, and then airlift out. Those individuals and companies who commit to the medium (practice? way of thinking?) and maintain a long-term, come-what-may presence will have the most success.

Thanks again…hope we get to cross philosophical swords in person someday ;)

Thank you for recognizing my intent, and why I felt I was obligated to do. Going back, I certainly would have done things very different.

What I do next is what matters. I've learned, will apply these lessons to what I do going forward, and hope that you'll see that.

It's nice to see some civil discussion on this, now let's move forward.