Betrayal In The Boardroom – A Personal Journey

If reading my story today compels one person to go into their office tomorrow and request that any and all promises of equity, stock, options, or promotion or compensation plans be verified in writing, then I will have accomplished my goal. If your requests are turned down – start making plans to cut the cord and find another career opportunity, for you have just become expendable!

10 Powerful Ways To Evaluate Opportunities And Avoid Buyer's Remorse

Very little in this world can be accomplished with little or no effort, unless we have done the groundwork. And to accomplish mightily requires trusting others and forming alliances. The problem is who to join forces with and what products to buy, sell or promote as an affiliate. Welcome to the world of marketing overkill.

Attack Of The Scumbag - Beware The Entrpreneurial Sociopath (Part I)

It's no wonder to me that criminals and entrepreneurs have similar personality traits. We entrepreneurs are not get in line, play by the rules, and do what we're told kind of people. The key is being able to tell the difference between the typically self-confident entrepreneurs like you and I, and entrepreneurial sociopaths.

Are You Revealing Your Lack of Ethics and Ultimately Lack of Business Results as a Business Coach?

Most business coaches and executive coaches believe that they are ethical. However, this story truly reveals some hidden agendas for some who are business coaches or executive coaches.

What Really Happened in the Subprime Mortgage Market

What really happened recently in the subprime mortgage market has much less to do with market economics and has a lot more to do with ethics, integrity, and professionalism.

Are Ethics Important For Professional Accountants?

An article to take part in an essay competition among ACCA students all over Pakistan. This is to highlight the importance of Ethics for a Professional Accountant.

The Antidote

We - modern America that is - have become so damn impolite. We don't give people the simple courtesy of a reply when contacted by email or phone. The idea of acknowledging someone with a smile while passing on the street is at best an anachronism; at times it's even considered an affront. And being greeted when entering a store is less commonplace all the time. What are we becoming (or have already become)? Furthermore...

Ten Commitments to Ethics and Personal Conduct For Business Coaches

Business coaching remains a rapidly growing profession and one of the impacts of this rapid growth is more scrutiny of the profession. There have been some predictions that business coaching and other forms of coaching will experience increased criticism. This criticism may come in many different forms and today's professional business coach needs to be able to recognize the criticism and the opportunity or opportunities that result from that criticism. One of the areas of criticism revolves around ethics and personal conduct and it is essential that these two items receive the highest priority in the business coach's practice. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers the following Ten Commitments to Ethics and Personal Conduct to help turn the criticism into compliments.

Importance of Employee Privacy

This article refers to importance of employee privacy. It gives examples of methods of monitoring in place.

The Value of Integrity

Integrity should be one of the most important values of any business, yet many times it is overlooked or it is not given the proper attention. Whether or not you're making integrity a characteristic value of your company could be making or breaking you.

Obsession With Triviality - An Opinion

As a nation, we have become obsessed with the trivial behavior of entertainment personalities. When the major spokeswomen of a national talk show air their differences, have we gone too far? Recent radio talk shows stars have been fired and the same should be true of television.

MLM Code of Ethics

Despite the fact that the MLM business model has the potential to provide enormous benefits across many areas: financial, economic, social, educational and philosophical, it has largely failed to live up to it promise, and has frequently caused distress and loss to those touched by it. This code of ethics has been developed in order to help professionalise MLM and earn back trust and respect in the wider community. Your comments are warmly invited.

Create More Poor Then Crush 'Em

There is nothing wrong with success. Just because a company gets very large does not mean they are evil. But, what about those who are? What can you do when they get arrogant, and use their power to crush everyone who gets in their way?