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Category Archives: Ethics

Good intentions

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

One of the great dilemmas of the modern world of work – one that, one way or another, is reflected in much of the thinking and writing about management today – is found in the conflict between personal morals and business ethics. . .

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Just business

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Remember that saying from the old mafia movies? Both sides knew and accepted that events had developed to the point where one wiseguy was going to have to deal with another. Nothing personal. Just business. Over the past two days we have reviewed the preparation and conduct of a negotiation that popped up regarding the organization of a prominent speaker’s inclusion at a conference. . .

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Trust and shared values

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A discussion of the importance of values in the context of business and management can be conducted across a wide range of domains occupied by the individuals, formal and informal communities, organizations, societies, and cultures that are affected by them. Each has its own values, which influence and are influenced by all the others. As a result, an organization, to be effective, must comprehend this environment, achieve an understanding of its own place in it, and integrate that awareness consciously into its corporate goals. But there is another fundamentally related issue, here . . .

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Interpreting dreams

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

To begin with, in discussing the importance of values in organizations, it is worth noting up front that the very fact that today’s modern world is one that is constructed of organizations is worth celebrating – it is a dream come true. . .

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Poor reflections

Monday, April 14, 2008

The modern world of business is filled with surprising twists and turns, and sometimes wholly unexpected results. Our actions, seen from our own perspective, are reasonable, generally productive, and even virtuous. But seen from others’ eyes, they may be revealed to be poorly considered, counterproductive, and even unintentionally harmful. . .

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Madmen

Thursday, April 10, 2008

One of the problems with discussing values in the workplace is that so many people think the whole subject is simple nonsense. Work is about work, they argue: do your charity at home. . .

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Dulcinea

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

We’ve been talking more or less abstractly about Don Quixote and the pursuit of good in the ordinary. But in fact, even the field of management has created quixotic champions who promoted – sometimes to great skepticism and even ridicule – ideas such as Theory Y and Transformational Management. As those concepts engaged the real world in practice, they evolved and, largely, survived. It is well recognized, today, that such enlightened management practices can be tremendously effective for all concerned. But much of what makes life interesting is the issue of where to draw lines. . .

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