My column this week in the Tennessean encourages entrepreneurs to translate their ethics and values into concrete actions in their businesses.
While business ethics is getting much more attention in the press, in the boardroom and in the classroom, I am concerned that our definition of business ethics is sliding into a legalistic world of rules compliance.
Whether it’s in everyday life or in the business world, we have to be careful not to boil morality down to a simple list of don”s that serves as a checklist of how to be ethical.
Business ethics should so much more than a list of rules to follow. It should be a much broader set of standards of how we treat one another..
After reading this column I realized I needed to beef up the specifics with more concrete actions in my business plan. It’s one thing to say you want to do something, but quite another to actually close the loop with the steps you are going to take to make it a reality.