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DrBulldog

(841 posts) Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:06 PM Mar 2016

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This aerospace CEO thinks that today's corporate "ethics" is simply an equation. [View all]

Take a read and see what you think.

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2016/April/Pages/ASimpleEquationforEthicsinAction.aspx

Imagine: you plug into his equation and thusly either you are ethical or you are not.

Isn't that exactly what Wall Street does? But in Wall Street, "ethics" and "profit" are synonyms.

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This aerospace CEO thinks that today's corporate "ethics" is simply an equation. [View all] DrBulldog Mar 2016 OP

It's not even that complicated Major Nikon Mar 2016 #1

The Corporate Mind calculates the shortest distance to large profits. ladjf Mar 2016 #2

Sounds like something a sociopath would think. Odin2005 Mar 2016 #3

There are no corporate "ethics" - there are only degrees of compliance hatrack Mar 2016 #4

My brother got his MBA melm00se Mar 2016 #5

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