A person’s Character
“What a person’s mind can create, a person’s character can control.”
Thomas Edison
Putting values to work!
How refreshing to see how a town steps up to take care of their own in these challenging economic times!
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Morals of a whistleblower
The moral courage of a whistleblower has a price to pay. Still, she did the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason.
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One bad decision, one lapse of judgment!
Yesterday it was reported that the CEO of Horace Mann Insurance, is in jail and doing 60 days for a DUI offense. I know Lou Lower as a friend and client. I am convinced that this was just one bad decision. Lou is a good man,great CEO and has helped Horace Mann immensely as CEO,BUT…
True test of a civilization
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no but the kind of man the country turns out.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compliance blending with Ethics
A client of mine who is a compliance/ethics officer in the Pharmaceutical industry sent me his comments on the distinction between compliance and ethics. Thoughts? Simply stated , Ethics is the internal intangible that drives us. It’s the value system, or lack thereof , that guides us when we make decisions in our day to…
Living to Serve
“Life is a place of service, and in that service one hasa to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear,but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside…
Defect of character
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson