Ethics
The Grit in Integrity
Igniting your workplace with a sense of integrity and joy- sounds lofty, huh? Truth be told the joy naturally follows from the integrity. Ever worked in a place that lacked integrity? Read more →The Lifesaving Hobby
Force Decisions We Can Live By! Just another bumper sticker, or is it the New Age philosophy? It began as an overwhelming drive to express the lessons I have learned and the warnings I observe, in simple terms, easily understood by others. Read more →The Need to Survive; A Death Knell For Organizations
Changing the driving force upon which business decisions are based is crucial in order to not only restore ethics in business but to truly improve the lives of those whom they were meant to benefit: executives, employees and consumers. Read more →The Only Thing You Get for Free in Life is Hungry!
My grandfather was a very wise man. Simple but wise. He once told me "The only thing you get in life for free is hungry." There is a lot of truth in that. Read more →The Pinocchio Effect
Have ever you avoided a phone call by instructing your assistant "Tell him I've gone to lunch." Or "Tell her I'm in a meeting"? All when it's not true. Read more →The Prisoner's Dilemma In Business Competition
Have you heard of the "prisoner's dilemma?" It is a situation where two people are apprehended as suspects for a major crime. They are separated from each other and interrogated. Read more →The Source of All Ethical Values
To say that we as human beings have ethical values implies something quite profound. It literally means that we are, in a manner of speaking "hardwired" with such values. Read more →The Three Schools of Business Ethics
G. Richard Shell, author of Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, identifies three primary schools of ethics in negotiation. Read more →The Ugly Face of Ageism - Discrimination Against Older Workers
Discrimination against older workers is out there, and none of us will ever know (for the most part), whether we were discriminated against because of our age. Read more →Throwing Away the Throw-Away Culture
From the middle of last century until today we have become the "throw away society". Buzz words like "disposable" and "one-use" have been commonplace. Where we used to "make do and mend" in the war years we now simply replace items that are no longer functioning or are no longer wanted. Read more →Aphorism
He replied, "Compound interest."
Albert Einstein