Americans are struggling to reconcile individual liberty with community well-being. But we should be using our freedoms to make our communities stronger.
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Business Ethics are Personal Ethics
It’s no longer controversial to say that we live in ethically troubled times. Turn on the news and you’re likely to find a scandal of some sort. And it seems that scandals that would have rocked the nation only a few decades ago are considered par for the course today. Just this year we’ve had……
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Leaving the World Better Than You Found It
Almost every day, I read headlines about embezzlement, insider trading or fraud. It’s so easy to find stories of people who’ve put their own interests above the interests of those around them. In those cases, I’m reminded of the many oaths that we make young people take. Special codes of behavior that we hope young…
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Finding a New Ethic for Our Age
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy We live in a world of unparalleled wonder. We may not stop and look at it often enough, but the technological progress of the last 100 years is astonishing Let’s run through some numbers. Global Poverty has been on the decline for…
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