The guest on this week's nationally syndicated Motley Fool Money radio show is Adam Lashinsky, editor-at-large of Fortune magazine and author of Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired -- and Secretive -- Company Really Works. Apple has been in the headlines recently over reports of poor working conditions in some of the company's manufacturing facilities in China. In this audio segment. Lashinsky analyzes why part of Apple's challenge lies not just in China, but also in Silicon Valley, where Apple employees take great pride in their company and their ethics.

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