Children and values
“Children need models rather than critics.” Jospeh Joubert
Who and what are our children’s role models? That answer, will tell about their values.
Situational ethics?
Can there ever be “situational ethics?” Read this article and let me know.
http://tinyurl.com/395emso
Conscience and you
“There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells withing us.” Sophocles
Ethics or Compliance?
ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE…Two sides of the same coin, or different coins? One topic that drew a surprising response with a recent social media posting related to the difference with regard to compliance and ethics. Many organizations have compliance officers and ethics officers, and often they are the same person, but both functions are not the…
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!
http://tinyurl.com/2g2hyuq
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.
http://tinyurl.com/2avjvyx
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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…