Thursday, August 30, 2012
When ethics and morality are separate in Business We All Lose
I recently heard a friend of mine had lost a lot of money and was turning into a nightmare. He had run to an affair, has begun to affect every transaction made on your credit card with a charge back, running back and forth doing nothing to save himself. Unfortunately, the same ethic that was using it to recover from his bad situation was the same ethics that used in the construction of its business. My heart bleeds for him, because this is not the man I knew as a friend.
When ethics and morality are separate activities we all lose. We live in an age where anything goes, you are the most important person on the planet and you have to do what you gotta do to get anywhere. Wow, look at the results of these lies and all the trouble we are in and you'll see it's just not so. The truth is that anyone can succeed with hard work and a good solid work ethic. Cutting corners is weak and activity at the end, reality has hit: The weakest link in a business will fall.
So what's the answer? Back to basics, back to what made this country of ours there.
With the autonomy that the internet does not contain ever before ethics became a major crisis. People become who they want to be behind a computer screen. Sometimes not for the better. I remember when I met some of my clients at a recent workshop for the development of training for their business and they said to me: "You're no different from how it looks on your computer! There's really no crossover for you. " This is the greatest compliment I ever received. This is my goal, what you see here on this screen is what you get in person, in reality, you will get a better me than you can live here on the computer. The warmth, tenderness, eye contact, body language of sincerity and integrity are what you can meet in person.
A spirit of poverty plaguing our nation for too long. Poverty causes people to blame, to accuse, not to take personal responsibility. Poverty induces people to play the victim and not take a good hard look at themselves and their lives. Poverty causes the cutting angles immoral and unethical practices in business. I was bound by poverty not too long ago, and was cured by poverty. Breaking free was not easy but it was the best thing I ever did for my company. When you cross the area of poverty towards prosperity area, believe me, you will know. Things are not so difficult. The losses no matter what, they are educational. The challenges are part of success and the obstacles are only challenges to break through.
I once heard a famous copywriter, Jay Abraham, saying, "The wealth and prosperity are two different things, the wealth you can have doing a lot of money, but prosperity in all aspects of a person and a business." The wealth and prosperity are two different things. Wealth brings money. Prosperity will change a life.
When ethics and morality are separate activities we all lose. Make the choice today to take the path that has always led to prosperity.
(C) Sandi Krakowski, 2007. .......
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