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December 29, 2014 by Trev Harmon 6 Comments

Standard of Business

Standard of Business
This entry is part 1 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 1 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics  One of the first questions to pass between meeting strangers in the United States is the simple question, “What do you do for work?” The time we spend on our careers cannot but help to mold who we are as a person. […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: accountability, alignment, appearances, burned-out, business, capitalism, career, children, deceit, dishonesty, environment, ethics, expenses, game, greed, growth, guidelines, hard work, harm, honesty, honor, ideals, jaded, manifesto, money, organizational behavior, passion, results, Scrooge, standard, time, value, winning, wolf, world

January 5, 2015 by Trev Harmon 2 Comments

Producing Real Value

Producing Real Value
This entry is part 2 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 2 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics The very first entry in my Conscious Business Ethics: A Manifesto, listed under the Hard Work heading, is a fundamental idea. “It is my responsibility to produce real value, not merely the appearance thereof.” We now live in a transient world, a world […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Alan Watts, appearances, build, caveat emptor, change, Charles Darwin, craftsmanship, ethics, hard work, information, IPO, Jim Collins, long-term, manifesto, Microsoft, parasite, progress, short-term, Sivananda Saraswati, Steve Ballmer, transparency, underwriting, value

January 7, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

The Harming of Others

The Harming of Others
This entry is part 3 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 3 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics In its very long history, one of the ongoing debates in Chinese philosophy is the nature of man. It’s a simple question: is man by nature good or evil? Are evil acts learned through exposure to other evil acts, or does strict […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Bletchley Park, bombs, C. S. Lewis, compartmentalization, E. M. Forster, empathy, Enigma, ethics, evil, firebombing, Friedrich Nietzsche, gain, Golden Rule, good, hard work, heal, ideals, Luftwaffe, manifesto, Nazi, nuclear weapons, philosophy, Tokyo, WWII

January 9, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

Directed Passion and Hard Work

Directed Passion and Hard Work
This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 4 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics From our earliest times, the value of hard work has been ingrained into American society. We find it anchored in the beliefs of the early Protestant pilgrims, and have seen it reinvigorated over the years with the constant flow of immigrants drawn to […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: balance, choices, designed life, dreams, education, ethics, hard work, John Scherer, Ken Robinson, manifesto, Michael Hyatt, needs, passion, wants, WDS, work-life balance

January 12, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

The Handshake

The Handshake
This entry is part 5 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 5 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics The handshake has a very long history in western civilization. However, even more than a greeting, the handshake has come to represent something even more important; it’s how we seal deals. Or, at least that’s how it used to be. In my lifetime, […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: accountability, dishonesty, ethics, handshake, honesty, Karl G. Maeser, manifesto, Mark Skousen, oral agreement, Steve maraboli

January 14, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

Misdirection and Deception

Misdirection and Deception
This entry is part 6 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 6 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics The three of us were sitting outdoors at a cafe in a small European town. The evening was falling, and we were attempting to fight back the haze of jet lag with an evening meal (which, in retrospect, may not have been the […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: caveat emptor, Dilbert, dishonesty, engineering, ethics, honesty, information, John Martyn, lies, manifesto, marketing, product management, spin, Thomas Carlyle, transparency

January 16, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

Partnerships of Trust

Partnerships of Trust
This entry is part 7 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 7 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics  Perhaps one of the more potentially controversial statements in the Conscious Business Ethics Manifesto is this: I have no need to do business with the dishonest. So, it may need a little more explanation. Simply put, I want to do business with […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: contracts, ethics, father, handshake, manifesto, trust, Warren Buffet

January 19, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

Amorality of Money

Amorality of Money
This entry is part 8 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 8 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics Moving on with our ongoing series on Conscious Business Ethics, we now move into the Money section of the Manifesto. Money is an interesting thing. Originally developed to allow for time-shifting and product-shifting in a barter-based trading society, it’s now become so much […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Bible, Douglas Adams, ethics, evil, greed, manifesto, money, morality, value

January 21, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

Money: A Means, Not an End

Money: A Means, Not an End
This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics As was recently mentioned, money is amoral. It is only one of a number of tools we have when building a successful organization or enterprise—not the only one. The problem occurs when we start to confuse the tool (the means) with the goals […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Charles Dickens, ethics, manifesto, money, Scrooge, tools

January 23, 2015 by Trev Harmon Leave a Comment

The Great Liege Lord: Greed

The Great Liege Lord: Greed
This entry is part 10 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics

This entry is part 10 of 17 in the series Conscious Business Ethics In the Middle Ages, feudalistic monarchies controlled Europe, especially the lands held by England and France. In this oft romanticized time period, society was very hierarchical. The lands were divided up into massive estates controlled by a lord. Under him, vassals worked the […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Benjamin Franklin, community, contract, ethics, fealty, greed, growth, homage, lord, manifesto, Mattheiu Ricard, Middle Ages, money, oath, servitude, slavery, TED, Tryon Edwards, vassal

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