Buying a Franchise Business & Making the Right Choice

Buying a Franchise offers many benefits over starting a business on your own. The franchisees benefit from the training and ongoing support that they receive whilst trying to make their business successful. So how do you make the right choice when choosing a franchise?

Enron's Ultimate Victim: Ethics

FROM the 'MORAL HIGH GROUND', where we imagine ourselves, the Enron fiasco should have come as no surprise. Enron is simply a quintessential example of the degradation of principles such as trust, l...

Business Ethics: How The Sales Function Can Transmit Company Values

What causes money, greed, manipulation, and self-interest to prevail at the expense of serving? What's stopping sellers from using their jobs to promote respect, integrity, servant-leadership, collaboration, and trust – for their customers, for their companies, and for themselves? Why is there a belief that it's not possible to serve and make money? To support and be aggressive? To be a trusted advisor and close rapidly?

The Everyday Business Ethics Crisis Or I'm Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take it Anymore

Breaking news may feature the Enron debacle, WorldCom activities or accounting probes but we live our everyday business life making ethical choices that affect our employment and businesses. While these everyday choices are not on a newsworthy scale of an Enron, they are on a scale that affects each business involved, some even resulting in disastrous outcomes.

The Collapse of Enron: Managerial Aspects

The downfall of Enron Corporation is one of the most infamous and shocking events in financial world in the whole history of the mankind, and its reverberations were felt on global scale. Prior to its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the US leading companies and frequently considered among top 10 admired corporations and most desired places to work, and its board was often recognized among the best five US companies in accordance with the Fortune magazine.

Don't Hate Them Because They're Beautiful

People in the workforce are competive. But when it comes to who gets treated the absolute worst, hands down, it's the beautiful women. People THINK that they are treated special.... and they are.. by men. But most often, beautiful women threaten other women and the beautiful women are tortured. This is a wake up call to let people know the REAL story!

Brain Development and Due Process

Due process is the basis of a just society. Nutrition is the basis of a well developed brain. Only a well developed brain can handle due process. Corner cutting and corruption are resluts of undeveloped brains due to lack of balanced diet as a result of poverty - see http://tianshi.wealthyhealthyways.com

It's Not About Power & Politics; It's About Principle & Process ------- A Lesson in Leadership

Principle and process form the baseline of effective leadership. Power and politics are old school and have traditionally led to ultimate failure. We have experienced many unfortunate examples of this kind of failure recently, including Enron, Tyco and WorldCom. Behind each of these failures stands a towering figure: a CEO or business leader who may have embraced power and politics over principle and process. Most of the CEOs of these failed companies were considered great leaders at one time. That is scary.

Is Global Warming a Hot Issue...or Hot Air?

...the formidable forces of politics and economics have drowned out proper science

Why Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

A summary of the financial benefits companies can realize by taking the initiative toward becoming more environmentally responsible.

Promote Workplace Morale, Prevent Surprises, and Get a Nifty Accessory

Tired of getting surprised by the boss while playing games at work? There is a solution for you (and it's not giving up solitaire.)

Respecting Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace When Using Video Surveillance

The loss of employee privacy rights in the workplace is a growing concern among employees, attorneys, and civil libertarian groups. Although employers in banks, telecommunications, securities exchange, in hi-tech industries, and in other workplaces justify using video surveillance in the workplace to monitor employee behavior to chiefly promote safety, improve productivity, and stop theft, protecting employee privacy must be a top concern. For if the courts find that the employer’s surveillance methods are less than fair, that firm may find itself knee-deep in lawsuits that could have been prevented.

Doing the Right Thing -- Even When Her Job Was At Stake

A true story about a how a high level-manager handled a moral dilemma when her boss told her to change her performance evaluation of one of her direct reports, something she didn't believe was ethical.

Zap the Power Monger

Power hungry, glory stealing, competitors of the office beware! The Power Monger tosses out ideas, but forgets to participate in the accomplishment of the task, then shows up in time to steal the glory and be recognized. Isn't it time we put a stop to his or her bad behavior? There are solutions. Find them here.