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As a police commissioner once said when he turned down the twentieth bribe offer he had received that day, “Ethics ain’t easy!” All of us are faced by those moments when doing what’s right is very different from doing what’s easy or what would be the most profitable. That’s one of the reasons for a…
No matter what the business, what the company or what the industry, these five points apply across the board for all. Examine, after reading this, if your ethics training incorporates these concepts as the foundation of building a truly successful enterprise. Don’t think so, read on. E = Experience. Experience is not what happens to…
This is a noble theme and at times a formidable task. So what number is ethics? This is Compliance and Ethics week right? Compliance may be more teachable as the law is the law. One must know it, its implications and its applicability in the workplace. This is very important and necessary, however, where does…
Dr. Domeena Renshaw, now retired from Loyola University taught that there are four “T’s” of building any relationship. 1. Trust: Trust is the basic building block of any relationship. You haven’t got a friendship without trust; you haven’t got a marriage without trust and you haven’t got a business without trust! 2. Touch: What’s your…
I was having dinner a week ago with the General Counsel for a major Healthcare company and he was explaining to me the very comprehensive compliance training that they require of all their employees yearly. I then asked him, how much of that training was in ethics? He thought for a minute said, “that…
Life is difficult… Many of us seem to go through our days expecting life to be easy, and to mostly remain that way. When the challenges come, our response is often to get upset, angry or super-stressed. The simple act of viewing life as a bumpy road helps me to try to respond…
In the book, If Aristotle Ran General Motors, by Tom Morris, there was a profound quote about business. Tom Morris wrote: “Business is a partnership of people creating, in many ways, a better life for others as well as ourselves.” The key word in this definition for my business and I dare say yours,…
On Tuesday night I watched new Frontline on PBS which had a documentary called Untouchables. This program pointed out that no CEO banker who was involved in the mortgage crisis was ever charged, prosecuted, or jailed! Not one! Certain congressmen tried to move the process along to no avail. How can this be?…
Service and Humility are two of the most unappreciated virtues needed for truly effective leadership. Here’s what I mean by this. None of us, and I mean, none of us, has gotten where we are in life on our own! Doesn’t matter what your title is, what industry you’re is in, if the…
Anything that one reads on setting the “tone at the top, had to be disappointed in the stories of the CEO of Walmart knowing about the bribery issues with Mexico, and JP Morgan being ordered to improve their compliance training. Now I find that I’m part of a class action law suit of…
