Do you remember that “get to know you game” Scruples? I believe it first appeared in the early 90’s or late 80’s. In case some of you don’t recall it, the game works this way. Four to eight friends pick six ‘Scruples question’ cards and six ‘response’ cards. A person can only answer three ways to the questions asked: Yes, No or Depends. The question cards ask a variety of questions dealing with morals and ethics (as if these are two completely different concepts). Questions like:

“The person in front of you in line accidentally drops a $100 bill. You pick it up. They have no idea they’ve dropped it and it appears they have several $100 bills in their billfold and you are certain nobody else saw the dropped money. Do you keep it or tell the person?”

The object of the game is to predict how a person will answer. If you chose a “YES” response card, for example, then you would direct the question to a participating player who you think will answer YES. If they answer as you predicted, you get to unload one of your response cards, a good thing because the first player out of response cards wins.

OK, so now that you know how to play Scruples, what did I learn? I learned that people, for the most part, don’t like to live in black and white. Seventy percent of the time people would say, DEPENDS. “It depended if I knew the person, if I knew they were a jerk I’d keep their money! If I didn’t know them I’d report it.”

It would concern me that people could justify why it was ok to do the wrong thing … STEAL! Everyone knows the right thing to do is to report the dropped bill, yet somehow the human mind can justify why, in some cases, it’s ok to keep it! It’s disenchanting to say the least. After all, if we had dropped the $100 bill I’m confident there would be no ‘depends’ involved.

I understand that there can be areas of grey in life, but I also believe that people who live with black and white perceptions of things are more grounded. Whether we agree or disagree with them, they appear confident and unruffled when questioned on their beliefs. I love those people. It takes guts to stand up and say, “”THIS IS WRONG!”" Business ethics tie right into today’s Wisdom.

In working with successful entrepreneurs, I’ve discovered there’s an authenticity that’s admirable. They say what they do and do what they say. Their convictions are carried outside the office to their everyday lives. Their convictions are their value system that is inherent in their organizations, and when an organization shares good values, consistency is created and when consistency is created brands come alive. Are you passionate about your convictions? Do you have the guts to step up and say, “That’s not right,” even if a deal benefits you? Remember, a good deal is made when both parties benefit equally in the end result.

Joe Kiedinger is Brander in Chief of Prophit Marketing, a unique and vision-driven marketing organization that helps small to medium-sized business succeed by adhereing to the Prophit Marketing System. The Prophit Marketing System is a process based approach that combines corporate culture with strategy and finally advertising. The emphasis starts with leadership and flows from there. Joe’s message has been heard by many through his unique Prophit Marketing Road Show, an entertaining informative presentation that leaves audiences with an action plan for success. Joe also authors Wisdom on Wednesday, a weekly email newlsetter which will enlighten and challenge you to get the most out of your marketing efforts. Visit this site to learn more about the Prophit Marketing system or click here to subscribe to Joe’s weekly email newsletter.

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For many years I had always said that I am not a moral person, however, I am an ethical person. But when I would say, “I am not a moral person,” I would wait to see the person’s reaction to my saying that before I added the “however, I am an ethical person.”

Normally the person would wrinkle their brow and get this confused look on their face, and then I would commence to explain my thoughts on the difference between “morals vs. ethics.”
The reason I have chosen not to rule my life based on “morals”" is that I think there is an extreme difference between morals and ethics. Before you say, “This is a semantics issue,” let me explain.
I really am not playing “the meaning of words game” here. In my mind I clearly see a big difference between making your decision based on “”morals”" and making your decisions of life based on your personal ethics. The dictionary has this to offer:

Ethics: choosing principles of conduct as a guiding philosophy.

Morals: conforming to a standard of right behavior.

Here is where I see the difference. Morals, to be sure, are rules and standards that we are told we must “conform” to when deciding what is “”right”" behavior. In other words, morals are dictated to us by either society or religion.

We are not free to think and choose. You either accept or you don’t! We are taught by society and religion that you “shall not lie” or you should “give to the poor” or you must “love others as you would have others love you” or you must do something because it is “your moral obligation.” The key issue with “morals” is that you are expected to “conform to a standard of right behavior” and not question that “conforming” or you are not a “moral” person. But again, where do these “morals” come from to which we are expected to “conform”? Yep, from society and/or religion, but not from YOU, and that’s what bothers me.

Ethics, on the other hand, are “principles of conduct” that YOU CHOOSE to govern your life as a guiding philosophy that YOU have chosen for your life. Again, call it semantics if you want, but I see a big difference between “conforming” and “choosing.” With MORALS the “thinking has been done;” with ETHICS there’s a freedom to “”think and choose”" your personal philosophy for guiding the conduct of your life. I like to watch movies about the “”mafia”" or TV shows like the “Sopranos.” The people on these shows are extremely devoted people to their families and religions, but they have somehow “morally justified” their actions of killing, stealing, and lying.

How is it that these extremely devoted family men and supposedly devoted members of the Catholic religion think that what they are doing is moral is a mystery to me. Yet they wear their “crosses,” cross themselves, love their kids, and dedicate themselves to the “family” while killing people who get in the way. Now that’s an interesting morality. But morals don’t stop there. Think of all the hundreds of cultures who have totally different ideas of morality. Some cultures think it is perfectly fine to have as many wives as they want; some think only one wife is moral in the eyes of God.

Some cultures think that it is fine to steal if you need food; other cultures think that stealing is stealing and is never morally justified. Some cultures think that “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” judgment is fine; other cultures think that this type of moral thinking is barbaric.
When you leave MORAL THINKING to society and religion, there is no such thing as “absolute morality.” So, is there any such thing as a 100% MORAL PERSON? I think not, at least based on the criteria, culture, society, and religion telling us what our morals should be.

ETHICS are a totally another matter. With ethics, you are free to choose your personal philosophy of conduct to guide your life. You are not dependent on the judgment of society or religion “”based in fear”" when making your ethical decisions.

For example, I believe in telling the truth not because God may curse me, but because it is the right and best thing to do based on my personal ethics. I believe in being 100% faithful to my wife, not because adultery is a sin, but because being true to your wife is the smart and right thing to do.

It is a better and happier way to live, again not because God will send me to hell if I commit adultery, but because it is the right and best way to live my life based on my ethical way of seeing things. I believe in keeping the laws of the land, however, I am not living my life based on the rules of society and religion, but solely based on a pragmatic and ethical way of living.
I don’t refrain from stealing because I’m afraid I might go to jail. I don’t steal because I have decided not to steal based on my ethics. I don’t have to be commanded to give to the poor. I concern myself with giving to and helping the poor based on my ethics.I have the freedom to choose and if I am smart, I will choose personal ethics that will enrich my life and the lives of others. As with all other freedoms, there is always the risk that I will make ethical decisions that could cause me to drift over to the “dark side.”

That’s the problem with the freedom to choose or free agency. Anytime we allow people the freedom to choose, we also give them the freedom to make bad choices. If you want to make bad ethical decisions that will make you, and perhaps others, unhappy, then you can. However, if you want to make good ethical decision that will make you and others happier, you have the freedom to make those ethical decisions too. I choose personal ethics to govern my life that make me happier, while I strive to enrich the lives of others. It’s the ethical thing to do based on my personal ethics. You don’t have to tell me not to lie, not to steal, not to kill, not to commit adultery, etc. I have already made my ethical decisions to NOT do those things.

You don’t have to tell me to give to the poor, love my neighbor and my enemies, use my free agency for good, etc. I have already made these personal ethical decisions. I choose my principles of personal conduct because I have thought about them. My ethics are my ethics, and yet interestingly enough, they almost always agree with society and religion. The only difference is I made these decisions.

My personal thinking determines my ethics. I made these ethical choices. Not because I was told by society or religion to think a certain way but because I thought it was the best way to live a complete and fulfilled life of happiness. Freedom to think is a great concept. We ought to use this freedom more often. Think about it.

Larry John is the international author of Think Rich to Get Rich, a detailed outlining of the 4 pillars of wealth, and Larryisms, an introduction to pragmatic thinking. He owns a successful advertising agency and enjoys his many entrepreneurial plots and adventures including: real estate, sales and marketing, public relations, publishing, radio broadcasting (click here), and many more. He is also the founder of The Pragmatic Thinker found here.

His first book has been reprinted in several different languages and the exposure continues to grow. His second book is released in October of 2007 and available here. It is also available through Baker & Taylor. Larry enjoys applying pragmatic principles of thinking to his business and his personal life and finds that through a greater understanding, a higher level of success and happiness is achieved.

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Recently as I was clearing out a closet I found my twenty-plus year old tattered and worn copy of In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, Jr. I was struck by the following:

“Let us suppose that we were asked for one all purpose bit of advice for management, one truth that we were able to distill from the excellent company’s research. We might be tempted to reply, “”Figure out your value system.”" Decide what your company stands for. Clarify the value system and breathing life into it are the greatest contributions a leader could make.”

I thought to myself how often since the book was first published in 1982 have we read of corporate leaders, government officials, athletes and role models being accused and often convicted of some type of wrong doing. And I asked myself, “Didn’t these people have any values?”

Television, movies, music and other forms of popular culture are filled with questionable values, violence and greed. Implicit in this is a subtle approval of behavior. By being apathetic in our words and actions we set a lack of standards for our children, co-workers, employees and the next generation. We can find the need for it in every business or not-for-profit organization, every profession and industry, and in our local, state and national governments. The important decisions we make, and actions we take should be influenced by values.

The concept of Valueship is not new. Harvard professors James L. Heskett and Leonard A. Schlesinger studied the relationship between leadership, behavior and organizational performance. They found that leaders of the best performing companies defined their jobs as:

• “Identifying and constantly communicating commonly held values,

• shaping such value to enhance performance,

• ensuring the capability of people around them, and living the commonly held values.”

Valueship focuses on balancing the need of the individual with the needs of the organization by aligning the

The classic example of a value driven business is Johnson and Johnson and its decision to nationally recall all Tylenol capsules when several deaths were attributed to its use in the Chicago area. The decision cost Johnson and Johnson millions of dollars, and ultimately was the result of product tampering. Yet the leadership of this company felt their first responsibility was to “”the doctors, nurses and patients, mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services.”" Having a clear understanding of their values made the decisively obvious.

We create values in an organization by focusing on leading people to do the right thing as well as doing things right. People will generally be motivated to do good, if not exceptional work when they feel apart of an organization and see their leaders living these values.

By identifying core values we can begin a path to value-based leadership. Core values are the basic principles which we choose to guide our actions. They define beliefs, standards and acceptable behaviors. If properly communicated throughout all levels of the organization, they govern and guide the actions and decision of the individuals and the organization.

Decisions, priorities and actions are framed by core values. Examples include:

• We believe our employees are the key to our success.

• Never violate the public’s trust.

• We will treat our customers as guest in our homes.

• Our integrity has no room for error.

• We pledge to create an environment for our employees that foster respect, fairness opportunities for professional and personal growth.

Many people give little if any thought to identifying values that will guide their personal behavior. And, probably few organizations have done so. Instead they conveniently accept the values of others or let the moment determine values. In most every case where values are not clearly defined, good decisions are more difficult to make. Without understood and accepted values, people are easily swayed and decisions are subject to compromise and frequent change.

Successful leaders use a set of core values to make important decisions. They do the right thing for the right reasons. Personal values may differ within an organization. A strong leader will guide his or her team to focus on common good values the will create a desire for teamwork and cooperation, without invalidating those personal differences.

The key to Valueship is crystallizing the values that establish the guidelines for behavior. It is up to us as executives and leaders to drive these values throughout the organization. When you engage in actions that conflict with these values, you sacrifice your credibility. I’m dusting off my copy and re-reading In Search of Excellence. I trust it contains some very worthwhile thoughts that over the years we have learned and some we have ignored.

Tom Schweizer is President of Best Practices Associates. His execution of results-oriented, innovative approaches empowers clients to tap into their hidden potential and achieve outcomes once thought out of reach. Tom has had careers in both the business and not-for-profit sectors. As a coach he specializes in helping organizations improve results and build capacity.

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“Throughout history, man has always struggled with the issue of right and wrong and ethics and justice. According to the dictionary, ethics is defined as “the study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by the individual in his relationship with others”. In simple terms, ethics provides the evaluation mechanisms and theories, based on which a particular action is adjudged as right or wrong, or as good deed or bad deed. It tries to answer the questions “”why is this good?”" if something is judged as good or right and “”why is this bad?”" if something is judged as bad or wrong.

Knowing about ethics does not mean that one will always end up doing the morally correct thing. However, it makes you more capable of explaining your actions — like although you knew that this was wrong, you were forced to do it owing to the circumstances.

The moral absolutism approach presumes the existence of eternal moral values and principles that are applicable at all times and at all places and circumstances. It considers that the moral quality of the action or behavior lies on the quality of the act itself (which means that something which is right is always right and something which is wrong is always wrong) irrespective of the circumstances that cause the act or the consequences that result from the act.

The ethical relativism approach presumes that moral values and principles are not right or wrong, but can vary with different circumstances — moral views can vary depending on how different cultures or individuals perceive a particular action or behavior. It is a very flexible approach and considers that the moral quality of the action or behavior is based on the circumstances that cause the act or the consequences that result from the act rather than the actual act itself. For instance, an action is adjudged as right if it proves to be highly beneficial to a large number of people.

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The Equal Employment Opportunity commission (EEOC) defines Sexual Harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when submission to such conduct is made, whether explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of an individual’s employment, submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions, or when the conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.

Sexual harassment can include a wide variety of behavior and occurs on various levels, ranging from:

- occasional comments, jokes, touching or gestures

- behavior that persists even after being issued a light, informal
warning or an isolated behavior that is more severe,

- repeated or persistent offensive behavior even after being issued
formal discipline, aggressive touching, or any behavior that is clearly intended to cause offense, even if isolated.

There are two type of harassment under the legal definition:

1/ Quid-Pro-Quo Harassment

This is the when the employer makes sex a prerequisite to getting something in the workplace. For example: ” sleep with me and you’ll get the job.” That’s illegal. This type of sexual harassment is the “casting couch” cliché. Quid-pro-quo can also include negatives. For example, “sleep with me or you’re fired” is also illegal.

Obviously, the woman who is fired because she wouldn’t sleep with the
boss can sue.

Take for example a situation where the boss asks one of his assistants to sleep with him in exchange for a promotion. She does it and gets the promotion. Under the law, she has a claim, because her agreeing to his sexual demands was a condition of the promotion. She also has a
claim if she refused and didn’t get the promotion.

However the conduct must be “offensive”. If two employees have a good time exchanging sexual jokes, it would not be sexual harassment. If one employee kept telling another employee sexual jokes that the second employee found offensive, it would be sexual harassment. If two employees dated and engaged in consensual sex, this would not be sexual harassment. If one of the two then wanted to terminate the relationship, and the other used the unequal relative terms and
conditions of employment of the work place to further the relationship, this would be sexual harassment.

Jokes, pictures, touching, leering, unwanted requests for a date have all been found by courts to be sexual harassment. Sexual harassment can be between people of the same sex. Sexual harassment can be awoman harassing a man.

Anyone who is offended by a sexually harassing environment may theoretically sue. However, that employee’s offense must be reasonable. An extremely sensitive person might not be able to
maintain a claim, because her feelings of having been offended were not reasonable.

The reasonableness is evaluated by a standard that is the same as a person in the victim’s circumstances. For example, what a reasonable woman might think is a hostile environment is not necessarily the same as what a man might think is a hostile environment. If it’s a woman
who was harassed, it’s the woman’s point of view that counts.

Victims of sexual harassment can recover for their lost wages, future lost wages, emotional distress, punitive damages, and attorneys fees.

2/ Hostile Workplace Environment

Hostile environment sexual harassment is a situation in which the employer, supervisor, or co-worker or customer does or says things that make the victim feel uncomfortable because of his or her sex.

Hostile environment sexual harassment does not need to include a demand for an exchange of sex for a job benefit. It is the creation of an “uncomfortable environment”.

If a fellow worker is the one doing the discrimination and harassment, you should follow the company policy and report the conduct to your supervisor and Human Resources. Report it in writing to have proof of the date you reported it, and be sure to be specific about the exact
nature of the discrimination or harassment. Saying things like Joe is bothering me or harassing me is not sufficient. Also, saying that Joe called me the “N” word once is insufficient. Don’t retaliate back, or you can be fired.

Anyone who is offended by a discriminatory or sexually harassing hostile environment may theoretically sue. However, that employee’s offense must be reasonable. An extremely sensitive person might not be able to maintain a claim, if his or her feelings, that have been
offended, were not reasonable.

Again, victims of discrimination or sexual harassment can recover fortheir lost wages, future lost wages, emotional distress, punitive damages, and attorneys fees.

There are steps that employers are advised to take to protect themselves from employee sexual harassment cases. They should:

· ensure that sexual harassment policies and procedures are in compliance with current state and federal laws.

· Circulate their sexual harassment policy, reinforcing commitment to eliminating and preventing harassment in the workplace.

· Obtain written acknowledgments from employees regarding their receipt of policies.

· Provide sexual harassment training for managers.

· Update sexual harassment investigation pro-cedures for compliance with state and federal law.

· Train human resource’s staff regarding appropriate techniques.

· Conduct an audit of personnel files involving past sexual harassment and discrimination complaints

· Update hiring policies and procedures

It is necessary for all employers to have a detailed policy statement, to protect both themselves, and their employees.

William Meikle is a Scottish tech author, with 20 years experience in IT management. He is available for all freelance writing work. Visitt him and read more free advice at this site.

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“In business and in life one should learn to respect people and treat them accordingly. You must respect yourself before you can effectively respect others. Everyone has their own set of core beliefs and values that effect how they interact with other individuals in this world we live in. The saying “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” should be took to heart in everything you say and in this world.

This respect for the individual’s right to believe does not in anyway mean that we should always agree with that belief. It does mean we should try to our best to understand and seek common ground if possible. What is value to one person maybe worthless to another that is what makes this world so fascinating is how each of us perceives it and interacts in it. In a world of many languages and beliefs it is all too easy to offend someone with what we say and do. That is a fact of this universe in which we live that not everyone will like what we say and do.

In all our dealings with other individuals we should seek to not knowingly offend them. If we can not say something good and fulfilling who should use discretion and not speak ill of what another says and does if possible. That in no way means to acknowledge outright untruths and harmful things to be allowed to go unchecked. Evil and hurtful things must be address in a civil and decent way without falling into the pitfall of doing and saying something inappropriate. To argue about something that is pointless and non beneficial just causes a wider divide amongst individuals and solves nothing in the end. Debate is good as long as it is done with respect for the other point of view.

Do not disrespect your potential consumers of your wares by talking down to them like you are superior to them. Rather look for ways to communicate to them how your products or services may be able to benefit them. Never promise something you can not provide for them or exaggerate or embellish your wares and services in a deceitful manner. Show them courtesy in your presentation.

Look for ways to answer their concerns with honest answers. Look to what their needs may be and address it if possible in your presentation. The more you respect your potential buyer the more you will be able to gain their respect. Treat all men and women with respect and dignity seeking to serve them and in doing so reap in the rewards of doing so.

We are creatures that seek encouragement and acceptance among those we come into contact with. We do not seek to be beat down with words of deceit and abuse. Every person seeks to be accepted and feel like a part of society. Learn to listen more closely to what is being said and look for ways to give a hand in improving and benefiting those you come in contact with. The best leaders are those who seek to serve those they lead with fairness and kindness not with cruelty and deceit.

Look to find ways to respect yourself by removing those things that prevent you from doing so. Respect life and all it holds seeking what is good and right. Become a leader in your profession by serving those with kindness and respect. Starting looking for the good in men and women seeking to add to the list of those you call friends. We are all fellow travelers in great road of life so why not enjoy the trip to success in life and business.

William R Brandenburg
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Customers are what business is all about. Yet they are too often taken for granted by those who provide services and goods. How the consumer views the marketer is critical to successfully promoting their products.

Yet many marketers try to deceive or hide the truth from the very customers that they depend on. Some marketers look on their potential customers as sheep that are too stupid to see when they are being misled. Got news for you people are not sheep and are a lot more intelligent than they are given credit. The only difference between the seller and the buyer is that one has something to sell and the other seeks purchase certain goods or services.

Both the marketer and the consumer are human beings with varied views and beliefs. No one in this world wants to be deceived, conned, or mistreated. Then why would someone who is in business for themselves want to tarnish their name and reputation by misleading customers because someday down the road the consumer will become aware of this and discontinue using said merchant. Sometimes the authorities of the merchant’s location may find such practices harmful and bring legal proceedings against them.

Businesses that want to be long standing and successful should be ethical in their dealings with the public. Just because someone appears to be getting outstanding results from doing things less than ethical does not give the good business person some green light to do the same. Following in the footsteps of those that are less than honest may seem glamorous to some but the final outcome may be not too favorable to those who choose such a path.

Anything in life worth doing takes commitment and dedicated work. A good merchant seeks to provide the best services and goods to those they serve. A good merchant is always concerned about their customer needs by offering great customer service when a problem arises. The merchant should seek to provide complete and honest details about the services they provide and the goods that they sell.

When sales and service procedures change for those you service be as detailed as possible about changes and how it will affect the consumer. The more open and forthright you are with your customer the fewer problems and misunderstandings there should be. You will never satisfy everyone no matter how upfront and honest you maybe that are just something that happens from time to time. Treating those you serve with kindness and respect will help smooth the way when some misunderstanding does arise. Be quick to respond to problems your customers may present to you seeking to find solutions to remedy their problem. Their problem may seem silly to you but to the one who has the problem it is serious matter that demands your full attention.

The bottom line is the more you are able to make your customers happy the end result is that your life should be more successful and that makes you happy. The merchant’s main goal is to provide the best benefits to the potential consumer and convert them into life long customers of your products and services. How your customers and potential customers perceive your character and ethics has a direct bearing on how you will succeed or fail in your business pursuits.

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“Just for a day, given endless possibilities to act without limit and control and with no rule and boundaries I could be!

I could be a chemist; I see water that provide us life, yet its abundances and importance still in trivial stage.

I could be an educator; I see myself, years from now reenacted once again as a reward for my service, yet it’s from the lives of other.

I could be a writer; I see event with no reference to time, a marriage of time and collaborative thinking to write without rules and boundaries, yet find aspiration from my readers.

I could be a doctor; I see lives in abundance; yet find it as unique in any aspect at any form.

I could be a Scientist; I see the nakedness of the atom, yet it is invisible in its natural state.

I could be a Leader; I see my self-alone, yet when I look back, others are walking to the trail of my path.

I could be a potter; I see clay as an object in its dynamic form, yet its unique and static when subjected to fire.

I could be an artist; I see changes of character without hesitation, yet retain the identity of their owner.

I could be a painter; I see color in my hand, yet find inspiration from my subject

I could be an explorer; I see the straightness of the horizon from the level ground and darkness of the deep sea, yet reaching the peek of the mountain reveal the curvature and at the deepest sea a life with light in unbelievable panorama.

I could be a coach; lifting the life of others, yet find inspiration from other world.

I could be a master key maker; opening the doors of opportunities for my self and others yet find simplicity through accessibility.

I could be a navigator; venturing to unfamiliar and yet to be discovered places and territories that other man will be willing to give the remainder of their lives just to conquest their search, yet the searched are with endless possibilities.

I could be a farmer; I see sand as a grain of rice and I could turn desert to a planting field, yet my tools are hands and shovel.

I could be a physicist; I see greatness at full magnitude from the bending of Starlight, yet am able to appreciate the color of the rainbow.

I could be a sword man; I see the outcome of my action through the sharpness of the blade, yet my action is only a focused collaboration of potential thought.

I could be a racecar driver; I see my soul driven apart from my body as I accelerate; yet my whole being is well intact.

I could be a Diamond miner; I see the stone in their rough fess form, yet it has an estimable value.

I could be a Pilot; I see path of line in the sky, I break speed and barrier; yet I have to plummet on ground to fly once again.

I could be a Tactician; I see result of the battle on hand in the core of my collaborative mind, yet everything is virtually and in the state perception and assumption.

I could be a child; I see and seek the warmth embrace of a mother’s arm, yet I will be ages up by time and seek no more, my childhood existence will be forgotten but the memories will still remain until I die.

I could be myself; I see life as dynamic changes with no direct pattern and reference to follows, yet were living as miraculous machines with embedded life instruction manual.

I could be an architect; I see the limitless design through my hand, yet its lay down with steel, concrete, glass, wood, marble and stone.

I could be a Bad Boy; I see and seek trouble through my roughness and arrogance; yet the warrior is just a boy, an oversize kid waiting to be accepted.

I could be a Monk; I see holiness through isolation and discipline in its outmost extend, yet my body is mortal to embrace the crown of life.

I could be a black smith; I see sharpness through reflection of the tough fess sword, yet find contentment through the result of the battle.

I could be a soldier; I see battle as an act of two methods of attack, the direct and indirect approached to win; yet its combination makes an endless maneuver.

Every one can reach their highest potential yet it resides in its normal stage in a kinetic form. The approach of thinking is somewhat define within the box. And outside the realm of possibility is not in the normal stage of recognition. Nor it has reached the view from business perspective and remains a Pandora’s box that no one had tried to open. Through my searched for the business phantom, it seems its identities might be in number that will exceed more than one.

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“Laguna, a place somewhere in the Philippines, 8pm. Darkness has unveils the whole place as early as 6pm, but it does not stop those kids from keep on playing. Playing hide and seek, a perfect well-suited environment, for playing the right game at the right the time. Rules are well stated and everyone is mandated to comply. Each of them has their own way to win the game, and there’s a sense of shared commonly among those kids. They are taking advantage and benefited from total darkness.

It may be in the opposite effect in the real life business if it embraces the aspect of navigating blind from the concept of child play. There is a need to master the art of navigating blind and it involve “A play of Trial and Error” because playing business without rehearsal is well decoded interpretation of business failure. I’ll liked to take that as my second quotation

The concept failure has been long encoded to the very existence of every being, from the day we were born, but it was interpreted not as failure but a series of repeated processes from the mind of a babies. It is estimated that before a babies are able to walk, they had at least encountered 273 falls before their able to stand on their feet. And without those repeated event from our views as failure, we will make our self with no difference from other Gods creation that walks in four feet.

In my views there is shared commonality among businesses that they mandated to comply whether it’s a direct or indirect business competition. There should a played rehearsal on the business level at the lighter term in organic means of bench marking whether internal, competitive or any other type. Likewise the played rehearsal will give a safe fail mechanism in the eventuality of total failure before it even happened. We make decision based on the amount of available resources that we had on our hands, and based on that we gain result. And result itself varies accordingly from people to people and business-to-business who are making the decisions.

It is the capacity of a man to dwell upon to the ever-changing nature of business as it self evolve to exist and adapt to serve its purpose. To benefits us through providing services that entice underlying competition within them selves. These provide a guaranteed improvement for product and services before reaching the hand of end users and equate market value for that product and services at its highest degree.

Among those area between client and service provider it may seems and lead me to confusion to where the business phantom might be walking and making its path to unveil his existence’s. To some point he might present him self as a client blending to the market industries as a customers seeking for a good or a bad product and service and learning from it. Or might as well to consider as a service provide doing a business anonymously, interacting with the same kind. Or might as well put my curiosity out of the play for now and continue searching.

The evening is long but the kids at play has decided to temporarily end their games, and every one in my assumption has a pair shared of competition, strategies, and well adapted trial and error to win the game. A call to my name “Bernard” by one of the kid upon passing by give me a sense, to might as well temporary pause my writing… Sunday 10pm September 9.

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“Does it come as a big surprise that a convicted felon—indeed, a white collar criminal—would have developed some thoughts about the topic of ethics? Probably not. Since my conviction I have had plenty of time to ponder the idea of ethics, and I’ve conducted some research on my own about the subject. In doing so, I’ve received tons of advice. I must say, I wish I’d had this information at the beginning of my career.

In 1999 I began serving a 21 month federal prison sentence for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. The crime involved four real estate investors submitting fraudulent documentation in order to get approved for residential home loans. I was their loan officer. After the first few transactions, I knew in my heart that some of the documents I accepted were fakes. Over a nine month period I gradually started participating in the profits.

I have been told by some people that my crime was “fraud lite.” Some have said that I was unlucky; wrong place at the wrong time. Well, there is no such thing as fraud lite, and luck has nothing do with making the right decisions. I committed a crime. I am not proud of it and I’m certainly no hero for talking about it now.

However, there is an ethics lesson to be learned in all of this.

Dictionary.com defines ethics as “a set of principles of right conduct.”

My understanding of being ethical was that you base your decision to do or not to do something on the feeling you get in your stomach. If that’s the case, how do you teach “stomach feeling” to someone?

Perhaps this is what led me astray.

In a business’ Code of Ethics, you can’t possibly account for every situation. For every principle of correct conduct; for every “right” way to act in one situation, there is another, different situation that follows, that may require yet a different “right” way to act.

I was traveling in my car with my boys, four and seven years old. In the rear-view mirror I saw the older one punch the younger one on the arm. The young one howled, “aaahhhhhhhhooooooowwwww-auh!” I said, “Hey! Don’t punch your brother.” Immediately, the older one slapped his little brother in the arm. I said, “Don’t slap your brother either.” This was followed by a poke, which I followed with, “don’t poke.” A tickle – “Don’t tickle.” Then just a touch. Finally, I said, “keep your hands to yourself. Period!” The instigator was reduced to leveling a taunting glare at his younger sibling.

This could have gone on for hours. I finally gave them the ol’, “Don’t make me come back there!” (Which of course makes no sense since, I was driving.)

Doesn’t this example prove that there are simply too many variable situations in the real world? Yes, but through my experiences, I have learned that ethics isn’t about situations. It is about people and their behavior.

Ethics doesn’t stand for “what to do.” It stands for “how to behave.” Finally understanding this made ethics less confusing for me.

For employers and leaders, it is imperative that you have a set of principles of right conduct. But to simply disseminate this information in printed format will not be enough. Ethics are best conveyed by example. Additionally, violations of ethical standards must be dealt with and not overlooked, or the unethical behavior will become business as usual.

If you are a member of an organization that adopts a code of ethics, read the printed words and follow the examples of the leadership. Pay attention to the feelings in your stomach. They may not tell you exactly what to do, but it may serve as a red flag. Remember, justifying questionable behavior is nothing more than being dishonest with yourself.

Lead your ethics model by example. Follow your ethics model with honesty.

Take my experiences and words for what they’re worth, coming from a convicted felon. Strive to be honest, diligent, and consistent. Society, your company, your family, and your children need you to stay out of prison.

Jerome Mayne is President and founder of Fraudcon, Inc., a fraud deterrent company. He is the author of the book titled, Life Saving Lessons – the diary of a white collar criminal. As a national keynote speaker and consultant, he has presented to and entertained dozens of trade associations and Fortune 500 companies to keep their people out of prison.

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“There’s more to life than just making money and creating results. Life is really about connecting. Life is about developing a network. Life is about reaching out and assisting other people to achieve their dreams. When you’re able to do that, your dreams will come true more quickly than you ever imagined.

Back in 1997, I had a breakthrough year. Many hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed into my bank account and even though it was overwhelming at times, I look back and say, “”Wow, my breakthrough year.”" What most people don’t understand is that I was in that process for about eight years. It all showed up in that one year and it all showed up not because I was a great salesman, but because I had evolved into a position where I had finally learned the difference between selling to people and developing the right people.

This I call the law of attraction. I looked up one day and had all these great people in my organization and realized that it was a by-product of my own charisma, my own energy. I had evolved to a position that people wanted to follow. People believed in me because I had started to believe in myself. I’d crossed that invisible barrier, developed that sense of certainty, and moved into the space occupied by people who really understand the game of life.

They start to understand that life is about service and value, and giving back, not just taking, and that everything operates off a yin and a yang, a give and a take, and you’ll get exactly what you expect. When you expect to struggle, the Universe will reward you with exactly what you expect. When you expect to flow, to reside, be hands-free, evolve and start to become the person you’ve always deserved to be, the Universe will also reward you with its own sense of abundance.

Most people never get to that phase because they never really start. Most people think they’re doing something, but they’re using their heads instead of operating from their hearts. When you’re in your heart, you are passionate, you are feeling. There’s a zest for the game. You can’t wait to play. Life is nothing more than a game and you don’t work for a living. You don’t trade time for dollars.

You are creating a palette in your design of your life. You’re moving people. You’re part of it. You’re all of it. You’re moving and shaking. You can’t wait to get up. You wake up before the alarm goes off and you say, “”Wow, five-thirty. I get to work out right now. I get to work out and then I get to connect with people.”"

People ask me all the time, “”Aren’t you a workaholic? Don’t you ever have fun?”" They don’t understand that every breathing moment that I am on this Earth plane I am having fun because I don’t do anything that isn’t fun anymore. I will not operate from guilt. When someone tells me to do something, I’m only going to do it because I feel it will be fun, not because I have to. Operating from fun means you come from your heart. But when you have to make yourself do something, you’re operating from your head. That’s a job. That’s trading time for dollars. But when life is fun, you’re in your heart. People sense it.

They want to be a part of it. They want to be around you. They want to touch you. They want to connect with you. They want to flow with you. They want you to lead them to the land of Paradise, the Promised Land. When you can radiate and resonate and feel and operate like this, people want to be around you.

When you operate like this, greatness starts to show up in your life because it’s showing up in your heart. The more it’s in your heart, the more you exude it.

It’s an internal experience that starts to radiate out of you externally. That’s when you operate from a telepathic position that says, “”I am the leader you are looking for.”" You’re consciously sending this message telepathically through thought waves, and in synchronicity, people who are supposed to hear your message become magnetized to these moments.

I call these, ‘Ah-ha’ moments. It’s radiating from your heart, not your head because if you’re in your head, you’re over-analyzing rather than being in the present moment. People don’t understand the value of time.

Time is your most valuable commodity. There are 86,400 seconds in every single day, 1,440 minutes, one hour, one day, one week, one month, one year, and one lifetime. What are you doing right now to create value in yourself? Obviously, if you are reading this, you are gaining a deeper perspective because, at least in the moment, you are in the process of changing just by taking the effort to gain the empowering perspectives of this information.

When it comes to change, sometimes change is gradual. Sometimes change is big, and sometimes change is small, and sometimes you’re changing and you don’t even know you’ve changed and you wake up one day and you realize, “”Wow, this is the life I’m leading. This is the life I deserve. I am the person that people are looking for. I am becoming the artist who’s designing my life.”"

When you operate this way, people want to be a part of you. They want to be in your energy, and instead of people being repelled by you; they are magnetized to you. People are touching you. They’re feeling you, and I’m talking about your energy, and when this happens, you have crossed an emotional bridge.

Jeffery Combs is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer, and author committed to assisting people with personal growth and development. He can be contacted online here. Jeffery & Erica Combs host The More Heart Than Talent Mindset Conference each and every January to assist you to create quantum leaps to success in your enterprise by bringing world-class speakers and personal development experts together in an inspiring and empowering 3 day forum EVERYONE can afford to attend!

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“Human nature is of dominance or to feel superior over others. If not, he surrenders to the forces where he can feel secure and find peace. Through out the history of mankind there have been wars, conquests, dominance, and freedom struggle. So, have we come to a threshold point? The answer is No.

We are going to be the same in nature no matter what. Even if the technology changes, the way we communicate changes, even if the whole world is given proper education, deep within we are same as we were 1000 years ago.

There will be unanswered questions, there will be cults, there will be saints and there will be peace and as well wars, there will be good and bad, there will be creation and destruction and we need to understand that we cannot change that.

When an Individual (soul) becomes liberated and becomes independent personally, financially, spiritually and his span of influence or control increases he becomes a master. The imprisoned soul is that of the slave.

What does all that narrow down to? Well, every self help book talks about value, Integrity and positive attitude. Say, if a man covets other mans wife it is lack of Integrity and value. If he takes away something of value form someone without his concern then it is called steeling or theft. Is it not?

“Ask and you shall receive it” that’s Integrity is it not? That’s why it’s written in the bible.

When there is difference of value or lack of Integrity there will be conflicts, problems, issues, conquests and wars.

Integrity is nothing but to be integrated. I.e. to be considerate, considering all factors, all people and decide the best decision. Integrity requires assertiveness, communication skills and above all a good heart.

The ability to take loosing as part of wining is one quality which will make you a winner for sure.

Say your employee or your subordinate fails to keep his promise of delivering his work as per schedule. Is it a lack of Integrity? It may be and may not be. “Do on to others as you do on to you!”
Can you deliver the same on time? If your answer is No, then stop complaining.

Cooperate means co-operate i.e. operate together.

In the business world many companies treat there employees very badly. In many sales and as well production departments they used to say “work like a dog and in end of the day you become god”. This is certainly lack of Integrity and value.

“Be a saint to choose peace and be a warrior to attain freedom“that’s Integrity.

“That which changes with time cannot be considered eternal and is not the ultimate reality because the ultimate reality is neither temporary nor does it change with time and it is indestructible. This is the conclusion that seers of truth has arrived after having deliberated on both the aspects,
Know that all pervading is indestructible. The all pervading consciousness and the imperishable soul can therefore never be destroyed. Thus it is only the external body that the imperishable, indestructible and immeasurable soul inhabits, that is destroyed, hence get up and fight, O descendent of Bharata.”

- Bhagvad Gita

Barath Surendran is a budding Entrepreneur and gives career Guidance in his blog. Also runs a small Direct Marketing business and few Internet sites.

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Survival skills.

Make a list of what it takes to succeed in business, and you might not think of ethics. As corporations merge and jobs are purged, a sense of values sounds like a luxury these days. But ethics can be plenty practical. Consider the case of Packard Brown.

Brown, 47, was a human resource manager at Pace Warehouse, until September when he resigned over a matter of principle. Brown left the company just two weeks before it was sold to Wal-Mart and 700 jobs, including his, were eliminated. By leaving at his own pace, Brown doubled the size of his severance package. Here’s his story.

Brown directed an employee assessment program for Pace: a deep-discount merchandiser with 120 outlets around the country. Founded in 1983, the company expanded rapidly – but just as rapidly went into debt. In 1989, Pace was sold to Kmart.

In 1992, as the red ink flowed faster, Kmart brought in a new team of top managers. That’s when Brown first noticed a change in the climate of the organization.

“The new execs held a series of ‘mini-conferences’ with the managers of each region,” he recalls. “They wanted to communicate their philosophy to as many employees as possible. But when they visited corporate headquarters, less than a third of the employees were invited to the conference and most managers seemed reluctant to share what they’d learned with their subordinates.

“You could see people pull in their horns. There was a huge drop off in trust and communication.” Still, Brown enjoyed his job. Pace had embarked on a training program to upgrade employees’ skills and identify potential managers. Employees were offered courses in interpersonal relations, marketing, computer literacy, and financial management.

Managers were to be selected through tests of their behavior, not just on the basis of their job titles. Brown and his staff used role-playing exercises as well as paper-and-pencil tests to determine whether prospective managers had leadership skills for the job.

As the employees were tested, Brown’s assessment team would meet to compare notes and come up with a joint recommendation on each person. That’s where the system went sour.

Last summer, Brown’s team was asked to evaluate three employees as possible managers for two new stores. They agreed that one person was an outstanding candidate for the job. “But as soon as the meeting broke up, my boss cornered the person who was to write up the minutes and told him to change the recommendation,” Brown says. “It may have been because she had a long history of conflict with this individual. Some people thought it was because her husband wanted the job.

“Then, later that week, she tried to doctor the results again: this time to improve a candidate’s position. That ’s when I knew I had to take a stand. I wrote a letter to the CEO, pitting myself against my boss. I told him I knew I was risking my job – and I was right!. But this was becoming an environment I didn’t want to work in.”

The story has a happy ending. Less than two months after leaving Pace, Brown found a good job with an employee leasing company. Now he’s in one of the nation’s fastest-growing industries.
The moral of the story? Perhaps It’s just that good guys don’t always finish last. But maybe there’s another lesson: that unethical behavior is often a sign of stress in an organization. It’s what people do when trust and loyalty break down. That’s the time to take a stand, or stay in a rotting environment. Brown stood up and made a solid career decision.

William Charland is the author of “Soundings,” (Wheatmark) a novel set in the mid-1990s telecommunications boom in Denver, Colorado. This article originally appeared in his column, “Skills Update,” in the Rocky Mountain News and Scripps Howard News Service.

In a review of “Soundings,” the Rocky Mountain News notes: “Charland excels at depicting the competitive frenzy in the corporate world, where everyone is seeking a new person, trend or idea to exploit before the inevitable crash. One such idea is the video phone targeted at executives too busy to attend meetings and at the phone-sex industry.”

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“I recently heard a friend of mine had lost alot of money and was turning into a nightmare. He had run to an affair, he began to hit every transaction he did on his credit card with a charge back, he was running to and fro doing anything to save himself. Sadly, the same ethics he was using to recover from his bad situation were the same ethics he used in building his business. My heart bleeds for him because this is not the man I knew as friend.

When ethics and morality are separated in business we all lose. We live in a day and age where anything goes, you are the most important person on the planet and you have to do what you have to do in order to get anywhere. Wow, look at the results of such lies and the trouble we’re all in and you’ll see it just isn’t so. The truth is we all can be successful with good hard labor and solid working ethics. Cutting corners makes a business weak and eventually the reality will hit: The weakest link in a business will make it fall.

So what is the answer? Go back to basics, go back to what made this country of ours exist.

With the autonomy that the internet holds never before have ethics become 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 seminar for training development for their business and they said to me, “”You are no different than you appear on the computer! There’s really no cross over for you.”" That is the highest compliment I have ever received. That is my goal- what you see here on this screen is what you will get in person, actually, you’ll get a better me that you can’t experience here on the computer. Warmth, tenderness, eye contact, body language of sincerity and integrity are what you’ll meet in person.

A spirit of poverty has plagued our nation for far too long. Poverty causes people to blame, to accuse, to not take personal responsibility. Poverty causes people to play the victim and never take a good hard look at themselves and their life. Poverty will causes cutting corners and unethical immoral practices in business. I was bound by poverty not too long ago, and was groomed with poverty. Breaking free wasn’t easy but it was the best thing I’ve ever done for my business. When you cross over from the poverty zone over to the prosperity zone, trust me, you’ll know it. Things aren’t so hard anymore. Losses don’t matter as much, they are educational. Challenges are parts of success and obstacles are just challenges to break through.

I once heard a famous copywriter, Jay Abraham, say, “”Wealth and prosperity are two different things, wealth can be had by making a lot of money but prosperity affects all aspects of a person and a business.”" Wealth and prosperity are two different things. Wealth brings money. Prosperity changes a life.

When ethics and morality are separated in business we all lose. Make the choice today to walk the path that has always led to prosperity.

(c) Sandi Krakowski, 2007. All rights reserved.

Sandi Krakowski is a woman that decided to break the rules in her own life when in 2003 she was diagnosed with a fatal health condition. Recovering 100% and leaving doctors baffled, she went from being over $ 500,000 in debt to a totally debt free lifestyle that she now works under 20 hours per week from the comfort of her radical space in her home office, many times on the grass behind her house where the birds hang out. She is passionate about helping others to live the life they want now, sharing her own personal experience of facing a life threatening disease in the face and conquering fear, debt and illness. She now operates a marketing and copywriting business that has taken everyday average people to a place of notoriety on the net with very little effort. If you liked or maybe even LOVED this article, let Sandi know. She’s piecing together a book and wondering if anyone would even read it! Contact Sandi here.

Trucking is not just a job; it is a lifestyle. For most, the transition to the trucking lifestyle is a difficult one. This is the reason why the vast majority of CDL school graduates are no longer in the trucking business after six months… or shorter. They are not prepared for the challenges or for the days and weeks spent away from home and family. Some universal truths about the trucking industry are not always pretty.

One of the first, and most obvious, is that any company engaged in the trucking business is not going to offer the normal amenities that are taken for granted in most other jobs. For instance, sick leave is non-existent in most trucking jobs. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid… period.

When I worked a “normal” job, it never posed much of a problem if I needed to take half a day off for a doctor’s appointment. In trucking, keeping a medical or dental appointment is often a roll of the dice. You never know if you are going to be home to keep it. I once lost a crown on one of my front teeth, and had to drive around for two weeks looking like a prizefighter that should consider alternative career options.

When I worked a “normal” job, no matter how stressful or harrowing the day had been, I always had the comfort of knowing that I would go home at the end of it and sleep in my own bed. In trucking, a long-haul driver eats alone in his truck or at a truck stop at the end of a long day, and then retires to the “comfort” of a small sleeper berth. Then, he gets up after a few hours rest and does it all over again. I never thought it would be possible to miss the company of some of my annoying former co-workers, but the loneliness of the road is very real.

One of the biggest issues affecting many truckers is anti-idling laws adopted by many states. These laws put limitations on the amount of time a truck is allowed to idle and offers stiff penalties to violators. For instance, in the city of Denver, a truck can legally idle for 10 minutes per hour. Well, if it is 8º in the Mile-High City, it takes 10 minutes or longer just to warm up a diesel engine. Do the lawmakers expect the driver to get up throughout the night every hour to idle for 10 minutes and then return to a freezing cocoon? The only word that pops into my mind is… DUH!

In Illinois, the law states that a driver must be present when idling. I wonder how law enforcement intends to discern this. Should they knock on the cab to wake us up? This seems like an equally brilliant method to assist a driver in developing a healthy sleep pattern.

The laws in other states are proportionately ingenious, but I think that the people who drafted these laws should attempt to rest in a 20º truck in the winter, or a 95º truck in the summer. Then, let’s drive 600 miles the next day and-think safety!

Unfortunately, this indifference to basic humanity does not stop with bone-headed lawmakers. I have experienced it, firsthand, from a trucking company. The story goes like this:

Shortly after I had arrived in Odessa, Nebraska, my air-conditioning compressor died and it got well above 90º in the truck. I called the breakdown department to tell them that I needed to drop my load at a nearby terminal so that I could have it repaired. The initial reply that I got was, “The Company doesn’t consider air-conditioning to be a valid reason to reassign a load.”

My reply was, “That’s probably because ‘the company’ is not the one who is trying to get some rest in a ninety-five degree truck so that they can drive 600 miles tomorrow. If the roles were reversed I’ll bet the pointer on their ‘validity scale’ would have a dramatic reversal.”

It boggles my mind when I consider that most people would be prepared to come to blows over an issue of having their pet subjected to extreme heat or cold, but many trucking companies and lawmakers seem to pay no heed to a moral thermometer in regard to subjecting truck drivers to sub-standard conditions. This seems to lend support to my assertion that a trucking company appears only to care about the amount of revenue generated-not the welfare of the driver. Despite their sophist rhetoric to the contrary, the reality lies in their actions.

On this occasion, it was necessary to threaten to quit in order to afford myself a basic necessity. However, playing the “I’ll quit” card isn’t always the smart option. If a driver quits when he is a long way from home, and then expects the company to provide him with transportation, he is in for another wakeup call. As another driver points out on a popular trucker’s forum in regard to this:

“They will bend you over and give it to you with no Vaseline every time… guaranteed!”

The smart option is to suck it up and wait until you are routed home and all of your belongings are removed from the truck. A trucking company will not pay to have your belongings shipped either. At the very least, the truck should be turned in at a company terminal and the driver should have the financial forethought to provide his own transportation for himself and his belongings. Believe me, if you get mad and quit when you’re in Moose Turd, Ontario, you’d better have a heavy parka and a good pair of snowshoes!

When it comes to large trucking companies, there seems to be no way to get past the impersonal nature of it. One of the reasons is that dispatchers are assigned to zones. As a result, the drivers and the dispatchers never get to know one another on a personal level. To me, the dispatcher in whatever zone I happen to be in is a faceless “John”, and to him, I am merely a truck number. I have encountered a few exceptions to this rule, and I tip my hat to the precious handful that has attempted to insert their own personal touch. But in the end, the grinding cogs of the huge corporate machine tend to drown out their tiny voices, and the machine spews out a number.

I have often gotten the distinct impression that many managers and dispatchers actually think that they know what road life is like. Having resided on both sides of the fence, I’ll say that they can understand the trucking life by sitting behind a desk about the same way that I can understand what it’s like to be a cowboy by watching a rodeo. I may get a narrow snapshot of what it’s like to be a cowboy, but I still have no inkling of the cowboy life.

While sitting in an air-conditioned office, it is impossible to understand what it’s like to have the need to make nightly applications of Emu oil on your feet to keep your heels from cracking; or the necessity to urinate in a milk jug; or being forced to drive 600 miles with a toothache; or the need to spray Lotrimin in your crotch to prevent jock itch. Neither, can they understand the necessity to spend an entire day of precious home time making preparations to go on the road again.

I’ll be the first to admit that my “view from the cab” does not provide me with an insight to the inner workings of a trucking company or the stresses, responsibilities, and headaches contained therein. I also concede that successful management does not always coincide with the desires of employees. Despite my railing, I have a high degree of respect for strong, competent, and ethical business leaders. Like truckers, they do not live in a world where “just anyone” can thrive. My contempt is only for the business leaders who are greedy and unethical, and whose primary goal is to line their own pockets like a squirrel stuffing acorns into it’s cheeks, with no regard to the hardworking people who make their standard of living possible.

The trucking industry sheds a bright spotlight on the fact that there are often ethical conflicts between making money, and doing the right thing. A description on a trucker’s website paints the trucking industry as: “…basically a slave industry with truckers working on the average of over 70 hours per week, many of [whom] are not paid while sitting in shipper’s parking lots for, sometimes, 8 hours or more (a whole workday for average Americans!) Truckers are not paid overtime as others.”

I probably wouldn’t go so far as to call it a “slave industry”. Any driver is perfectly free to quit at any time, but the trucking industry certainly, in my estimation, lags behind in affording the basic amenities for drivers enjoyed by the majority of the American work force. Trucking, certainly, is an industry in which you have to stand up for yourself, or you’ll have footprints all over your face.

On a few occasions, I have been asked to offer an insight by people who are considering a career in trucking. The following is the advice I would give to any prospective new truck driver:

· Trucking is a lifestyle more than it is a job. If you are not prepared to make a MAJOR lifestyle change, save your CDL school money and forget about it.

· Research the companies. Check them out online, talk to experienced drivers, and do not be afraid to ask questions. Interview the company. Yes, you heard me right. Prepare a list of questions for a company that you are considering and do not be shy about asking them. Any recruiter worth his salt will be glad to indulge you. If he isn’t… run like the wind. Join a trucker’s forum to get straight answers and to separate the wheat from the chaff. A recruiter isn’t going to tell you that the company he is recruiting for has a 120% turnover rate among drivers. Research the companies!

· Your first trucking job will probably not be with a blue chip company. The genuinely good companies only hire experienced drivers and they do not use recruiters… they don’t need to. All but the most fortunate have to pay their dues before they have a fighting chance to get hired by a really good company that will treat them with respect.

· Even the “good” startup companies are going to treat you like a piece of meat. They care about the freight being delivered… period. Your home time, your quality of life, and your job satisfaction are purely secondary concerns. Be prepared for it.

· If you are thinking of becoming an owner/operator, educate yourself as to what this entails. I’ve seen plenty of new owner/operators who were desperate to sell their truck after 6 months. I’d recommend that anyone start out as a company driver to ensure that trucking is actually what he or she wants to do for a living. I cannot stress it enough… Educate yourself!

· Even with this being said, trucking can still be what you make of it. It affords a freedom and autonomy that most other jobs cannot come close to. Trucking can be a rewarding career, but it doesn’t come without major sacrifices. If you aren’t prepared to make those sacrifices, don’t waste your time and money.

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Authentic — Noun; undisputed credibility; the quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine; worthy of trust, reliance or belief.

Ever heard these phrases? They all refer to authenticity.

* Walk the talk.
* Let your yes be yes and your no be no.
* Be real.
* Act on the courage of your convictions.

What is authenticity? When we think, say, feel and act in complete alignment. In other words, there is no difference between our beliefs and what we say. Our habits of thought match our habits of action. There is no difference between how we feel and what we do, between what we want and who we are. It means we’re whole, undivided, complete.

“…the first step toward becoming authentic is to be courageous. If we don’t have courage, we cannot be real. And being real, in turn, requires us to be brave enough to reveal, own, and often share our truth, our fears, our emotions, and our vulnerabilities. This is how we become authentic.” (Lance Secretan, “One: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership,” 2006, p. 81)

We often use the word “integrity” to describe the result of authenticity. The most common meaning of integrity is “steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.” But integrity also means “the state of being unimpaired; soundness,” and “the quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness”. (The American Heritage Dictionary) Authenticity leads us to our own ethical code; authenticity leads to integrity.

When you judge an object to be authentic, you determine it to be exactly what it claims to be. The same is true for people. For example, everyone has a relative who is “a little eccentric” yet very lovable. How is that? Chances are that wacky relative is so genuine you cannot help but appreciate him or her. What you see is what you get, and you love what you get from them (even if it’s a little weird!).

We need to be authentic because we love how authentic people touch our hearts and inspire us. “Authentic leaders have an air of transparency about them. And followers want conscious leaders who are clear about what they stand for, what their values are, and who live these values consistently. (Secretan, op. cit. p. 85)

Reflections to inspire personal growth in Authenticity (with your learning partner)

How would your life be different if you were more authentic? What can you do daily to increase your trustworthiness and integrity? What is your personal code of ethics; what must you change to demonstrate them more fully? Find an accountability partner or hire a coach to help to help you develop your authenticity and take these actions:

* Describe one of the most Authentic moments in your life, when you were at your personal, authentic best.
* Describe a current situation in your life that, in your heart, you could apply the same level of Courage and Authenticity as you did in your example above.
* Make plans to touch base with your learning partner in the next month about how you each are growing in Authenticity. Hold each other to be accountable.

Mark A. Sturgell is a Certified Business Coach and president of Performance Development Network. Mark coaches individuals, teams and organizations to help them achieve the measurable results they really want. Visit this site to learn more about how Mark can help you.

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In this age of business scandals, it’s crucial to remember that businesses based on ethics and quality actually work better. With that in mind, here are ten easy resolutions to inspire your business to achieve a very profitable 2008.

1) I will base every aspect of my business on honesty, integrity, and quality.

2) I will make sure every employee, from janitor to CEO, is trained to view every interaction with a customer as a key step in the marketing process, and to always give the customer respect and attention.

3) I will train and empower every employee to let the customer go away feeling good about the entire interaction.

4) I will stand behind my products and services. It is better to refund the money and create a positive buzz.

5) Understanding that it costs an average of five times more to bring in a new customer as to keep an existing one, I will see that the entire organization exceeds customer expectations.

6) Recognizing that my competitors can be my strongest allies, I will initiate at least one joint venture (after all, if FedEx and the Postal Service, Apple and IBM, and General Motors and Toyota can cooperate, surely I can too).

7) If my company is not the best answer to prospect’s needs, I will refer that prospect to the company that can best serve.

8) I will devote business resources to make the world a better place.

9) I will volunteer on a community project, and set up incentives for my employees to volunteer on the projects of their choice.

10) I will base decisions on the Abundance Principle that there is enough to go around, and not on market share.

11) I will reduce my firm’s use of water and energy, and reduce my family’s use at home, and inform others of the easy changes I’ve made. (See sidebar for suggestions)

12) I will grow by marketing the advantages of doing business with a socially and environmentally conscious, ethical company.

Marketing consultant/copywriter Shel Horowitz is founder of the international usiness Ethics Pledge campaign and author of seven books including the Apex Award winner Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First.

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Today’s MLM or Direct Marketing carries the weight of many ill conceived notions and negative connotations. Much of this bad press in the MLM industry comes from within the industry itself.

How can that be? We all remember our parents telling us that our Actions speak louder than words and that is the main way that we have created this negative view from the general population in regard to direct marketing.

Perception

Perception is everything in our industry. How we portray ourselves and our industry is the key to everyone else’s perception of not only our products, but also the MLM industry.

When you promise the sun and moon and deliver an asteroid it tells a lot about who you are as an individual and it also delivers a message about the industry you are involved with.

Market your product line with honesty and integrity. Its easy to fall into the trap of misleading your site visitors into believing that what you offer is more than what it is.

This happens when you misrepresent what your product is and what it offers.

Certainly play up the qualities of your products, but do not exaggerate or be misleading about what you offer.

In addition when you are sharing information about your business opportunity, its important to be real. Provide accurate information about the history of the company as well as the residual structure set up by the company.

When you provide information in a clear and accurate way, your prospects and customers will be able to draw their own conclusions and make their decision based on facts not hype.

Deliver what you promise

Direct Marketing has huge potential to provide an affordable way for people from all walks of life to realize their dreams. It also has the one of the highest failure rates estimated at 95%! How can this be when we are supposed to be in control of our own future and success?

Many who sign up in an MLM quickly become disillusioned when the support and tools provided to them fail. This is also because of the lack of true leadership within our industry.

Our industry is filled with the empty promises of our sponsors and uplines. Its up to us to educate ourselves on what works and doesn’t work and then to pass that information and training along to our downline.

We promised to help them and we can’t do that when we don’t answer our phones or use double speak when answering their questions. Its important to make ourselves available to our downline and provide them with accurate information and usable tools.

Realizing that deviating from the standard tools is not a practice that is smiled upon in our industry, how can we continue to promote these tools knowing that they don’t work. I know I got pretty tired of hearing, don’t reinvent the wheel, but if the wheel is broken, someone needs to fix it.

Back to Basics

Somehow we have gotten away from the products in our business and started focusing only on the opportunity, and our dropout rate continues to climb.

You can combat this by teaching your team to build a strong foundation. Pay attention to keeping your training focused on the products. Allow your team members to develop their own individuality when it comes to marketing, remember they got into this because they didn’t want a JOB or a BOSS.

The ability to break down the different aspects of what we do in their simplest form and relay that information to our team will help us to help them start building their dream and ensure that we continue on the path to achieving our own dreams.

Its up to us to keep focused and consistently provide what we promise. Our ability to do this will do volumes in rebuilding the reputation of our fast growing industry. It will also do wonders in our own retention rates and start a trend of lowering the percentage of folks that quit out of frustration.

With a background in Human Resources and Retail, Cherrie Fishlowitz uses a common sense approach to internet marketing and training that comes from her personal experiences both online and offline.

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It’s a well noted remarks that’s the shortest way to deal with the problem is to get thought it, and in its simplest form one must know were to aim an arrow. A timing with dedicated resources to be delivered at the most precise and control manner, sound simple in its trivial extend on how will look at it. But reality offer the most of what a situation can be calculate and deliver in order to justify the extent of possibilities, in such point that certainty with level of accuracy will not only relies on the hand of an archers. The path of a broken arrow is so elusive, even the possibilities are well presented and accepted for it to serve as reference guide, we are still in the inevitable state of making mistake and failure.

To put a reference comparison on how a business can be interpret in such way that it emulate the concept of a broken arrow, in a dynamic form, and not meant to be specific for it be applied. It takes a great amount of momentum and resources to drive an arrow to its target, and once it hit its target, its a anticipated battle to dwell on one of the law of natures, the strong point and the weak point to maneuver directly and indirectly to dominate one another.

The foundation has been lay down prior to the battle, and the tip of the arrow has been sharpen to a profound level, its body has been aligned to a precise straight pattern, and its edge that serve as navigational wings has been crafted to perfection, making sure that what the archer has targeted can be deliver with level of precision.

The archer’s eye is soaring like an eagle, finding its target from a far distance which has been viewed clearly with no doubt what the marks man use to interpret as Bulls-eye.
Inevitable factor has been well decoded to such extend that there are no rooms for error at the theoretical level, everything are well set and presented in manner that is said to be go for an aim.

The archer is preparing to aim his target, and the condition is well suited and timing by large percentage is in his hand. The art of archery is exercised at the most of its intent; it’s the very same art that determine the result to where an arrow will hit its target. It is the direct interpretation which is coherent for an art of this kind to provide such anticipated results. No less and no doubt this is truly an art that serve its meaning, philosophy and existence that worth to emulate and to adapt to a business emerging from competition.

The archer is interpreting the art into tangible state of motion equal to an action, and he is beginning to bend the bow to such extend with assurance that it has enough force with level of tolerance to deliver the arrow to its target. The opposing force has been created in the process, where the bow resist and trying to maintain a default stage, the string serve as the mediator to that action, but it’s the archer spirit that perceive in the process which determine the outcome, based on power and precision.

Timing is a matter of sense that require one self to be in the right place at the right time to aim and release the arrow, from then onward it is a maneuver with precise intent with force that break the boundaries of ones opposing force of gravities. It must maintain its momentum while making its way to its destination, and its just portion in such percentage of force and power and what comes to play is the remaining force to penetrate the target. Such force that can make or break it self or its target, to such extend that we have a broken arrow as a result of opposing force that collide to one another. One that carries the kinetic potential and the other with striking force that travelled with its arsenal of the toughness and sharpest steel. An event that has been presented in a flash of motion that is so fast where one will be unable to comprehend the underlying events, and only the end process will presented in our naked eye. We see such result either ways amongst our expectation, an arrow that hit its target, one that miss its target, and a broken arrow in a rare case. As to what extend of force does it create a broken arrow, to a midst of my curious thinking and trying to adapt the same concept in a business perspective it is sometimes lead me to un endless questions and inquiries that needed some answer.

The speed and swift action are sometimes or in the norm stages of our shared commonality are mostly interpreted as invincible. And he who see’s the invincible can do the impossible to some extent, this notion lead us to deals with things that are outside the box of our normal approach for making decision. Approaches that are self evolve from the emerging paradigm of such perspective collaboration of a creative thinking from individuals, groups, organization or entities at its general terms.

Broken arrow is a result of an excessive force with lock of understanding on the natures of its target, these one can say’s that you cannot solve the problem at the very same level it was created. It is the notion we must understanding what will happen if we have the same character and properties of the same kind for the two opposing paradigm or situation regardless who is the stationary target and the arrow it self.

One must know and understand who hold the most of the situation for them to equate the strong from the weak from the superior and inferior. To validated their decision making in reference from their current standpoint as defensive or offensive side. It is very important for ones self to understand where they are and where they are going, a reference point from where we should start. It is from that standpoint that we develop our action and decision making and applied it to a tangible motion of maneuver whether direct or indirect. This create a concept of formal decision making for any possible situation that will be calculated on hand to justify its veracity , those equate accuracy if it is combine by managing time and resources as a whole. This total combine force is just the arrow in its metaphysical stage.

Looking for the right archer…. To drive and navigate the arrow to its target requires such level of expertise, fashion and dedication to what he is doing. They come in many forms where age, origin, education, social status is merely trivial as reference guide in finding the them, its seems that there is no precise pattern for it, it’s just the way they are “an archer”. The only time one can tell is when they hit the target, one, twice, trice in the same spot, a marksman on their field at the time all the require factor are in existence and return to norm of who they are in the absence of such factor that makes an archer “a target to hit” an archer will always be an archer and marksman will always be marksman.

Anatomy of an Archer in the views of an observer

To what extend one can consider him self as an observer if an apple on his head become the target in such distance with underlying doubt or in the shadows of a doubt you give a level of trust on the credential of the archer. Are you playing as an observers or parts of system?

For the time being I will leave this inquires un answered as someone presented his self as a business phantom, whose currently the man standing still with the apple in his head while the archer is making his aim to its target, and I, I will be watching in close proximities among them, in such way am not going to loose the essence of a direct and indirect result of an event. In my assumption maybe not a broken for this time, but it’s an aim to a target with no guarantees. If the archer miss its target and the arrow hit the business phantom, my search will be prematurely ended if he’s truly the business phantom. If the archer hits the apple, a greater chance will be in my hand to authenticate the credential of the business phantom, it will be 1 step forward to my search.

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The Washington Post’s continued mentioning of the NFL’s Rooney Rule when a minority candidate is interviewed for the Washington Redskins head coaching position is a disservice and a slap in the face of affirmative action efforts everywhere. In a recent Post sports column, “Colts’ Meeks talks to Redskins” the reporter should have mentioned only that he is a great coach without mention of color but instead, after stating he was the fifth candidate for the position, added the disclaimer that the interview “fulfills the NFL’s Rooney Rule”… stipulating that a team must interview one minority candidate. Did they ever think of the impact of this caveat? Was there any consideration of how this would make Ron Meeks feel about the interview? Was he just selected to interview only because he is a minority so as to not have repercussions from the league?

That inclusion of the Rooney Rule in the article serves no purpose, is incredulous and unprincipled comments that have nothing to do with Mr. Meeks’ qualifications. How would any applicant for any position feel who read the next day that they helped the company they interviewed with fulfill some directed affirmative action requirement? I do not think it would give anyone much confidence that they are under serious consideration for the position. Ron Meeks should have been interviewed solely because he is a great defensive coach that is now in line for a head coaching position in the NFL.

Any affirmative action good faith effort is suppose to be just that. A good faith effort to ensure that companies have the opportunity to interview all qualified candidates regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, sex, or any other protected category and that everyone has the equal opportunity for the position. With the Washington Post stating Mr. Meeks helped the Washington Redskins fulfill the Rooney Rule requirement, you basically paint the picture of an “Affirmative Action Only Candidate” stamp on a superbly qualified candidate. It is time to leave the rule unpublished in the news media and keep it as an internal rule for the league that has good intentions. It should not be broadcast and attached to every person who interviews that “fulfills” this requirement. Interviewing qualified diverse candidates should be the right thing to do not something any organization does just to protect itself.

John Fuller is the Diversity & Equal Employment Opportunity Consultant for Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has held prior EEO positions with Fortune 300, the US Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Defense. He holds a Master of Science in Leadership/Business Ethics from Duquesne University and a Master of Arts in Education from Norwich University. John has been directly involved in EEO and prevention of sexual harassment training and EEO investigations since 1989.

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Integrity can be defined in so many ways, but most of the time I use a question to determine if integrity is in someone’s character or in the character of a business. That question is, “Do you do what’s right even if no one is looking or even if you know you could get away with something?” If you can consistently answer yes to these questions, then you have integrity. Likewise, if a business can answer yes to these questions, it has integrity.

There are so many opportunities for individuals and businesses alike to be tested in the area of integrity. One of the ways for individuals to be tested is in the area of taxes. Sometimes paying taxes, reporting the proper amounts, and indicating when mistakes are made cause problems for people and eventually lead to even bigger problems. My philosophy is simple. In the bible, the scripture says it is better to be righteous with little than to be unrighteous with much (paraphrased). If you can’t be trusted in the area of taxes, there will almost always be other areas that you will do wrong in. Whether it’s keeping something that’s not yours like a pen, a movie, or a dress, or failing to give the whole truth in a situation, many times these are indicators.

In recent years, we have seen so many CEOs and high-profile people sentenced to prison time due to a lack of integrity. In the end, it’s never worth it to mislead or misinform people and it never makes sense to do what’s wrong. Trust me, it’s a great feeling to be able to sleep at night with a clear conscience.

Devin Dabney is a computer consultant, author, speaker, and entrepreneur who is the owner and CEO of DabneyWorks Computer Consulting. DabneyWorks provides remote and in-person computer assistance , website design and auditing, and business consultation.

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Authentic — Noun; undisputed credibility; the quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine; worthy of trust, reliance or belief.

Ever heard these phrases? They all refer to authenticity.

* Walk the talk.
* Let your yes be yes and your no be no.
* Be real.
* Act on the courage of your convictions.

What is authenticity? When we think, say, feel and act in complete alignment. In other words, there is no difference between our beliefs and what we say. Our habits of thought match our habits of action. There is no difference between how we feel and what we do, between what we want and who we are. It means we’re whole, undivided, complete.

“…the first step toward becoming authentic is to be courageous. If we don’t have courage, we cannot be real. And being real, in turn, requires us to be brave enough to reveal, own, and often share our truth, our fears, our emotions, and our vulnerabilities. This is how we become authentic.” (Lance Secretan, “One: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership,” 2006, p. 81)

We often use the word “integrity” to describe the result of authenticity. The most common meaning of integrity is “steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.” But integrity also means “the state of being unimpaired; soundness,” and “the quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness”. (The American Heritage Dictionary) Authenticity leads us to our own ethical code; authenticity leads to integrity.

When you judge an object to be authentic, you determine it to be exactly what it claims to be. The same is true for people. For example, everyone has a relative who is “a little eccentric” yet very lovable. How is that? Chances are that wacky relative is so genuine you cannot help but appreciate him or her. What you see is what you get, and you love what you get from them (even if it’s a little weird!).

We need to be authentic because we love how authentic people touch our hearts and inspire us. “Authentic leaders have an air of transparency about them. And followers want conscious leaders who are clear about what they stand for, what their values are, and who live these values consistently. (Secretan, op. cit. p. 85)

Reflections to inspire personal growth in Authenticity (with your learning partner)

How would your life be different if you were more authentic? What can you do daily to increase your trustworthiness and integrity? What is your personal code of ethics; what must you change to demonstrate them more fully? Find an accountability partner or hire a coach to help to help you develop your authenticity and take these actions:

* Describe one of the most Authentic moments in your life, when you were at your personal, authentic best.
* Describe a current situation in your life that, in your heart, you could apply the same level of Courage and Authenticity as you did in your example above.
* Make plans to touch base with your learning partner in the next month about how you each are growing in Authenticity. Hold each other to be accountable.

Mark A. Sturgell is a Certified Business Coach and president of Performance Development Network. Mark coaches individuals, teams and organizations to help them achieve the measurable results they really want. Visit this site to learn more about how Mark can help you.

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Life if full of ethical dilemmas, and many of the decisions we make in life contradict themselves. I’ve realised as I’ve got older, not to be worried about these contradictions. It would be lovely to live a totally consistent life, but I’ve met very few people who manage to attain these dizzy heights.

One of the major ethical dilemmas I face is over how green I am. I try to be green. I believe it’s important to be green. However, I have also realised a lot of the more environmentally friendly options are far more expensive, and I simply don’t have much money. Obviously, there are things that don’t cost money, and are things everyone should be doing – for example, recycling, turning off lights, not leaving electrical equipment on standby, and using the car minimally. Unfortunately, a lot of the other options are expensive.

Some of the greenest people I’ve met are people with money; people who can afford to build their own eco-homes, install solar paneling, and source their own water. These are also the people who can afford to shop locally at Farmers Markets, buy ecological products, and buy expensive recycled products. I buy such items when I have the money. However, the reality is by the end of the month, I don’t have any option other than to buy value items from major supermarkets.

Necessity makes for one of life’s biggest contradictions. It forces difficult decisions and moral uncertainty. Necessity also forces compromise and making the best out of the circumstances offered. I don’t want to make a decision which harms the planet, but I also have to live my life.

Renewing my car insurance last week gave me exactly this dilemma. I spent many hours at the computer looking at different companies, trying to work out which was the cheapest and greenest. I knew I needed to pay by direct debit as I didn’t have enough money in my account for the full lump sum, so this again, through necessity, narrowed down my options.

Finally, I opted for the package that was the greenest for what I could afford. From my research, I knew this wasn’t the best environmentally friendly option, but it was better than some of the others. Compromise eventually gave me the best option.

I find the same is true with electricity suppliers. I was forced to swap from a company who solely ran green power because I couldn’t afford the bills. Again, I compromised by using a green policy from one of the major suppliers. However, having said this, energy saving light bulbs have now decreased in cost enough to be affordable to all. Things are improving.

Green options are coming down in price, and this is fantastic. I’m luckier than most. I can just about afford the lower end of these services. However, until we get to the point where environmentally friendly products are the cheapest on offer, we will not be able to move to a greener society.

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Abraham Mazlow defined self-actualization as, “a bringing together of what I do and what I really value.”

If you want to create more value in the world and become more valuable in the marketplace, then you’ll want to define, embody and live your core values.

No matter how old (or young) you are, you have values that are important to you. You may not be able to articulate what they are right now, but you have them nonetheless.

In fact, our lives are a result of the choices we’ve made or neglected to make around these values. Everything we do and everything we choose NOT to do is based-or at least should be based-upon our hierarchy of values.

The problem is, few of us have a good handle on what these values are. As a result, we may very well find ourselves with possessions, jobs and relationships that are unfulfilling and sometimes even painful.

I’ve spent most of the last 30 years studying, researching and experimenting with success strategies. I know many things that work and many that don’t. I’ve been flying high, and I’ve also fallen out of the sky more than once.

What I’ve found is when we’re clear on what we want, clear on our core values-on who we are and what we stand for-there’s no stopping us.

The decisions we make become easier, our work becomes more interesting. We have more energy and it takes a lot more to discourage us. Our successes are sweeter and our defeats easier to bear. We arrive at our accomplishments with a clear conscience and with more pride and satisfaction.

By living our values, we experience fulfillment. We know we’re in the process of achieving what’s important to us, and we do it in a way that makes us feel good about ourselves. Our self-esteem goes up and our attitude improves with it. We are truly successful in every sense of the word.

When I work with individuals and organizations, I find the biggest problem or roadblock to success is their lack of clarity and focus. They’re often busy doing the wrong things. They want me to help them climb a ladder that’s often leaning against the wrong wall. What they really need is a clear sense of vision and a foundation of core values that can support that vision. The rest is pretty easy.

Unfortunately, I’ve yet to find a fun, easy or exciting way to sort through the many values one might hold near and dear and to find the five on which we want to build our life upon. It takes hard work. It takes thinking. It requires being open to our inner voice.

But the payoff is substantial. It may be the most important thing you ever do. It will dramatically and permanently impact the rest of your life. Big investment-big return. Small investment-small return.

Start by asking yourself a few questions. Do some journaling about what comes up. What are my most important values? Why are they important? What am I willing to fight for? What do I stand for?

People who have it together are people who are clear on their values-they know what they stand for. They’re not perfect, but they are congruent. They know, and others know, what’s important to them.

Are you willing to invest some time in your most important asset? Is your life worth your best effort? Do you want to be efficient and effective with your time? Do you want your family to experience the best of you? Do you want to live an exceptional life?

If you can say yes to these questions, then begin today to discover your values. Your future depends on it. For discovering and living Your Core Values, and putting more purpose and passion in life, click here

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Being successful in business in usually based on the general idea that desire for making profits and self-interest are good and moral, however there still should be right ways and wrong ways to go about making a profit. Morals still should come into play no matter what, just because you are running a business it doesn’t give you the right to lie, cheat and do what you consider to be morally wrong order to make a living. This isn’t what the successful businessman is all about, although there are and have been many business men that have got to the top solely by making the mis-telling of truth an art form and where morals seem to have gone totally out of the window for the sake of success?

In today’s business world it can be hard to remain true to your morals when there are advertising campaigns to figure out. After all if you have a product or service to sell shouldn’t it be good enough to sell by telling the truth and not having to fabricate claims of what it can and cannot do. However, in today’s world it can be just as hard to find a businessman with morals as it can be to find a politician with them.

However, there are businessmen who will show a willingness to add ethical principles to the decision making structure of their business. When starting out in business it is important not to lose sight of your values and morals, some people value honesty and values above all else and will stick with them full stop no matter what while other have high ethics only to a certain degree then they fall by the wayside.

Some people regard ethics and morals as being the same thing, however they are not they are different and the difference is that a persons ethics determine what they see as right or wrong while morals are judgments, standards and rules of good conduct which guide people towards specific actions.

Morals vs. Ethics

Knowing the difference between the two can help business managers as ethics programs are part of life in business and managers can hold sessions to discuss their values, ethics and morals for the company. A business code of ethics should be in place in every business and this will protect individuals and address moral issues and value of the business during decision-making processes.

However having a corporate code of ethics program in place isn’t just an instruction manual put there to solve problems within the company. The whole idea behind the program is it will enable those who work there to have the valuable tool of saying “”That is against our company’s policy”" or “”It would violate the company’s code of ethics”"

This is a strategy that will enforce the company and bring values closer, it also makes it a much better working environment and can increase the commitment of those working in the company simply due to the fact that many people still do take pride and have a strong sense of moral.

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