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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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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“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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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