Ethics and Values in Business

In a contemporary business world wherein every product is more or less look-alike of its competitor, Ethics in Business is and can be a Never-Fading Product/Organisational Differentiator.

The Vibration Of Success

Most people, when they think of success, generally envision setting a goal and doing certain activities to achieve that goal. In other words, a series of external actions that will lead them to success. However, success does not always result directly from performing certain actions, and when it doesn't, we may be puzzled as to why we didn't achieve the goal. Did we do something wrong? Should we have taken different actions? Was the goal too far fetched?

Where Business Meets Philosophy: the Matter of Ethics

I teach business ethics. Uttering those four words at a dinner party is like detonating a conversational bomb. No one ever seems indifferent, especially when I tell them that my background is actually in philosophy (I did my doctoral work on Wittgenstein's later philosophy of meaning and value). I subsequently went into the field of applied ethics, particularly in business, because there was, and still is, growing demand. One could scarcely imagine a subject