When you look at the top of the corporate ladder, and you see the big wigs of huge business. What comes to mind?
Maybe you think lair, cheater, selfish, or evil. Why is this? What has changed in our society to make us thing that of another person who has been given the keys to success.
Simply trust is gone, and the realization that people in charge of big business only care about the money and not how they get the money.
What happened to sound ethics and good character?
I find myself thinking about my future in business. Now I am never going to be a CEO of a multi million dollar company, but I will still be in charge of me. Do I want to be look at as someone who isn't trust worthy, or greedy. The worst feeling is to have a boss who will take all the credit but non of the blame. I think the thing that is forgotten the higher up you go is all business is a people business, and the golden rule still applies.
So what is the real answer here to fix this issue? I think Charles Handy said it best when he said "We should... measure success in terms of outcomes for others as well as for ourselves." This is the business model that has been lost in the most recent history. The need to remember that what we do counts, and it effects more than just us. Lifting others should be a life long goal for all of us, and we have that chance everyday in business.
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