Many industry experts speculate whether CEO Tim Cook can equal Jobs in taking Apple into the future. But maybe that's the wrong topic to be mulling over. The real issue seems to be whether Apple's high-performing but secrecy-riddled culture needs an overhaul. Here's how Apple can get the transparency it desperately needs.

Make no mistake about it. For companies that want to be perceived as operating "by the book," it's critical for their goals and standards to align with integrity. As Dan Ariely points out, none of us are above temptation. That's why organizations need to be. Here are my tips to CEOs for making their workplace -- both in and out of the office -- as free of scandal-causing temptations as humanly possible.

You can't let board members off the hook simply because they're not full-time employees of the company, or that on just one day per quarter they're presented with information on which they can't always get feedback. And that's why Richard Schulze has been forced to step down from Best Buy's board.