23 January Private Virtue and the Commonweal (...moral...)

[Paul Terlemezian]

What is the role of virtue in the boardroom? Is it subservient to profit? Shoulder to Shoulder?

 

How about in the "classroom?"

 

It may seem like an easy question to answer but....

 

How virtuous is it to provide incomplete, out-of-date or inaccurate information?

 

How virtuous is it to provide training that is not effectively assimilated or applied?

 

How virtuous is it for the provider to abdicate responsibility for assimilation and application?

[Paul Terlemezian]

Drucker writes that "In a moral society the public good must always rest on private virtue."

Hard work

Great management skill

High standards of responsibility

Broad vision

While these four items guarantee neither profit nor virtue - I can imagine that without them neither is likely.