Listen to this four minute clip on the difference between an ethical and unethical business, and most importantly what I think the biggest differentiator is. Spoiler: it is having people unafraid to have values[based conversations, which are scary, and emotionally challenging but essential if ethical norms are to be followed.
At our review of the biggest business ethics disasters of 2016, we talked about Wells Fargo, AI, and Big Pharma. The audience asked some great questions, about GREED being a motivator, and about neuroscience and its relationship to ethics. Here are some of my answers. In this 3m clip you will find a taste of […]
I had the privilege of moderating a panel of experts on Wells Fargo, Big Pharma, and AI at the Institute for Enterprise Ethics – I started with the challenge to expertise that post-truth represents.
In this beautiful five-minute clip, Martin Boroson suggests not only that one-minute meditation is a way to bootstrap into longer, but even better! He suggests that having a one-minute practice means we do it much more often, and eventually become able to practice becoming present in an instant.
Creating an ethical culture in your business You cannot create a good enough ethical mousetrap – humans are vastly creative (even at fraud). The mishaps at LIBOR, VW, 2008 financial crisis, Deepwater Horizon, Wells Fargo all happened at businesses which had multiple layers of controls. So what can you do? Create an ethical culture – […]
Is ethical business, good business? When you talk about a person being good, you mean more than they follow the law. Yet some people think following the law is all that is required of business – notably Milton Friedman who won a Nobel Prize. It is clearly a nonsense idea – Friedman was a good […]
Peter Diamandis spoke at The Government Summit in the United Arab Emirates about what the world would be like in 2050, and the technologies that will lead to a world of abundance.
Video: How did the worlds most important interest rate, largest car manufacturer, and largest sports organization become corrupted by billion-dollar scandals? What happened? How could the mishaps have been avoided? What are the lessons for business leaders?
Video: Why do organizations, it seems, resist change? What does an agile organization look like? What are the levers leaders can pull to great agile, growth cultures?