How Trustworthy is Your Organisation?

Trust is the fundamental currency of business. Without trust our economies cannot function. And yet many organisations, teams and individuals struggle with trust. They struggle to gain their customers trust; they fail to develop their employees trust. Without trust stakeholders become cynical, disillusioned and de-motivated. How trustworthy is your organisation?

Integrity and the Company Promise

If what we want is a long-term relationship with our customers -- and no sane business person wants anything else -- then we must be worthy of the customer's choice to spend his or her money on our products and services. We must offer them something they perceive to be of unique value, and we must deliver on the promise implicit in that value.

Values Matter - Even for Super Bowl Champions

Business values can't be taught. They must be caught. Values do matter because values drive decision making. Values drive behavior. Living out my values makes them meaningful both on a personal and business level.

Always Do the Right Thing

How many times have you had to pick up the slack for someone else who has apparently made the decision NOT to do something they promised to do, but hasn't informed others of that decision? Whether we're sitting on a Board, serving on a committee, or simply doing a favor, someone is counting on us to do what we promise. If we don't, we cause added stress for everyone else involved.

Tipping the Cleaning Service - Gratuity

What is the basic rule of thumb for tipping cleaning or janitorial staff.

Your Corporate Values - Reviewed

The values below are selected from a company with internet presence. The management of the company has put significant effort in setting the values up. This can be deducted by the number of corporate values that are selected.

Lack of Honesty in Corporate Marketing Departments

In our society we have a real problem with honesty amongst people. So many people will lie to save a dollar or two. They will steal from you without even thinking twice at all about it? Even friends who tell you that you can trust them turn out to be thieves or pathological liars.

Abatement of Senatorial Insincerity

All too often we watch the Senators of the United States of America make statements on our television sets while we are in our own living rooms. If you have been watching politics on TV for the last few decades you have obviously seen a repeat

Ethical Decision Making at Home and at Work

Utilitarian Ethical reasoning has a simple and logical method for decision making both at home and at work. It is the most widely used ethical system used both in business and in private life. Living by an ethical system is not in conflict with your religion or lack of it.

Recruitment Ethics: Ethics In Hiring, Staffing and Recruitment

Ethics in the field of hiring, staffing and recruitment is based on a combination of things and depends on who is actually involved in the hiring process. Certainly the job searcher, hiring manager and recruiter are just three

Integrity – The Foundation of Leadership

In the post-Enron world of the early-21st century, integrity, and its cousin ethics, are words that get plenty of air time and even more lip-service. They're tossed around carelessly, but the deeper, more difficult, dialogue on what integrity is and why it matters is critically absent

Professional Parasites and Amateur Professionals Considered

Have you ever met a well-dressed Buzz Word Blitzing Professional Parasite Practitioner? Well they are everywhere, they say all the right things and then you wonder if you can trust the slick well dressed person and their substantially high rates.

Too Much Banking Backdoor Information Flow

Most people believe that you can trust your bank. For the most part this is true however, if you are a small business person the chances are that your information is being passed on by loose lips. For instance you might become a topic of conversation at a party where an off duty teller mentions that you are loaded or that your business does not have adequate cash flow.

The FBI Getting Ready to Make a Huge Bust on Chinese Spy Ring

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is getting ready to make a huge bust on a giant Chinese Spy Ring, which goes very deep and involves many players. In fact, the group has been operating for years in the United States and stealing technology. The number of companies they are involved with is astounding and the number of college students who are involved is also interesting.

How to Select Your Donations

There is an unlimited drive to innovate in nearly any area. And the easiest way to innovate is to copy a concept that has been invented in an adjacent or remote area. And so it is with the concept of Donations.