When there is an incident involving the police, such as an arrest or a traffic stop, police officers should assume they are being watched by their body cameras, which could then be inspected by their superiors. CEOs, today, live under the same scrutiny. Except, their “body cameras” are the thousands of smartphones in any arena, stadium, or conference that they enter, Erik Gordon, a corporate governance professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, told Fortune .

“If you are a CEO who remembers the good old days when you got away with things, now you need to know that those days are over,” Gordon said.

That reality explains why a Polish CEO caught on video snatching a hat from a child at the U.S. Open went internationally viral , and why experts say that boards can

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