Killing Them Softly

The Essentials of Managing Ethics in Financial Public Relations

Business Ethics: How The Sales Function Can Transmit Company Values

What causes money, greed, manipulation, and self-interest to prevail at the expense of serving? What's stopping sellers from using their jobs to promote respect, integrity, servant-leadership, collaboration, and trust – for their customers, for their companies, and for themselves? Why is there a belief that it's not possible to serve and make money? To support and be aggressive? To be a trusted advisor and close rapidly?

The Need to Survive; A Death Knell For Organizations

If the need to survive is driving most of your business decisions then you and your organization may be in serious jepoardy of perishing. If this sounds like a paradox to you then you don't truly understand the risks that you are taking by buying into the supposed benefits of such a need.

Financial Projections in Business Plans

One of the most difficult sections to write in a business plan is the proforma and financial sections. After all it is most difficult to what exact costs you will incur or what level of sales volumes are actually achievable. So often businesses are faced with excess government controls at all levels which take thousands of dollars in fees, additionally legal fees, delays and lawsuits often ensue and slow the project.

Selling Truth as a Differentiator

It’s become vital to the success of insurance and financial advisors that they differentiate themselves with their exemplary ethics, that they operate by a higher moral code and that they communicate that higher standard to their clients. Why? Because research proves that ethics builds trust, and trust sells — in the long-term and - in the short-term, as well.

Diversity

There has been definite improvement in the area of hiring but it seems that once women and minorities are hired, there are informal, relatively unconscious systems in place that prevent advancement of the minority worker or women, even today.

Communicable Corporate Diseases Hurting Business Sexcess!

Enron Executive goes to prison for 10 years, Martha Stewart is under house arrest, and Bill Clinton averages $150,000 per speaking engagement. It all comes down to decisions on the fly, no pun intended.

Article Thieves

This article recounts a situation where an article was plagiarized and used on the blog of someone in a directly competing business. The author's thoughts on plagiarism are explored here.

Ethical Conflict Resolution

Conflicts are inevitable, but the more we know about human nature, the more positive the outcome of a conflict might be for both parties. We know that different people have different priorities and different ways of dealing with situations that may occur, but in general, human beings have certain characteristics that are very similar – even across gender, racial, and socio-economic lines.

Considerations to Prevent Small Business Frauds

The article provides important tips to the business owners to fight the small business frauds...

Brazilian Law-Bunko! No Ethics Here

When Brazilians enter into the US, they start dreaming about their future life there. The other way around, Americans have nightmares about their present condition.

Ethics in Conflict - Building a Strong Foundation

This article addresses ethical issues in military and paramilitary organizations. It cites some examples and offers a number of solutions and preventative strategies.

The Source of All Ethical Values

Where do we get ethical values from; our families, our religions, our education, the legal system? Well actually none of these. In fact these very institutions have for the most part contributed to the murkiness that we refer to as our human ethical values. Such values exist deep within each of us and need not be taught only recognized.