Positive Behavior, Productivity, Passion
Creating Positive Corporate Culture through Communication by Martha Wilcoxson
Ethical challenges and ethical decision-making processes experienced or witnessed by U.S. financial advisers. Hello, I’m here to vilify your industry - As an investment adviser, I am not frightened by many things including questionable ethical issues in business. I have weathered enough negative markets to give me the tools, knowledge and courage to help my... Continue Reading →
The stop and go of urban traffic can be challenging and reminds me of business ethics. Just when you think the trip is smooth sailing, the next intersection light turns yellow. We’ve all passed through a yellow light (some of us, as it was turning red). Technically, the yellow light is somewhat more than slow... Continue Reading →
Effectiveness of Professional Ethics Education A review of how effective business ethics studies can be to the student. This is interesting. We’ve been asked to help review a new course offering 1 credit hour in business ethics. We thought we had seen the full range of professional ethics courses until we visited with the authors. ... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year – Let’s Get Serious about Business Ethics! We have an interesting business ethics project for 2017. ColoradoNDR will be assisting in an ethics project examining the financial industry. While the basis of the project will be regulatory compliance and enforcement research, the outcome (hopefully) will point to character strengths each of us... Continue Reading →
POA - Not Just for Elderly We’d like to give a shout out to Eileen Beal on her recent article about Power of Attorney. Beal gave excellent direction as to the when, why and how to effect a POA for aging parent. We would like to expand her coverage to loved ones who have diminished... Continue Reading →
The abandoned shopping cart... literally... an ethics problem or is it leadership? It’s the bane of urban existence – grocery store shopping carts abandoned on your property. My partner had I had the unusual experience last week of watching two vagabonds park their “stolen” shopping cart at the edge of our property. No use asking... Continue Reading →
Give Peace a Chance Can governance as leadership help inspire peace? In July 2013, Rotary International, the century old service organization, added their peace initiative to the 4 Avenues of Service. What a profound statement. The presiding RI President, Sakuji Tanaka proclaimed “our business is peace”. An extremely powerful objective. In his statement, Tanaka noted... Continue Reading →
Martha Wilcoxson, Colorado NDR