Creating Empty & Full

The Sales & Counselor Selling Series

“You must empty a box before you can fill it.”
—Irish Proverb

 
Creating Emptiness: The Counselor’s Art

It’s not about having […]

Sales and Ethics

The Sales & Counselor Selling Series

 
The word “Sales” can certainly conjure up a myriad of negative images and experiences.  Pushy. Aggressive.  Someone getting you to buy something you don’t want.  Yet “Sales” in its true form, happens every day. For example, we’re selling when we ask the […]

Let Your Aim…

The “Back to Basics” Series
All world cultures recognize that we have a responsibility to do more than look out for ourselves.

The ability to genuinely engage and perhaps influence another human being is truly a gift – which carries grave responsibility – […]

Walking Your Talk

The “Back to Basics” Series

“The neck bone connected to the back bone,
The back bone connected to the thigh bone,
The thigh bone connected to the knee bone,
The knee bone connected to the leg bone,
The leg bone connected to the foot bone
Dem bones, dem bones gonna walk a-roun’!”

Tearing Ourselves Apart

Disintegrate

Definition: 1. To separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; to break up, deteriorate; 2. To decay; 3. To reduce to particles, fragments or parts; break up or destroy the cohesion of.

We have reached a critical point in our cultural evolution where it is standard […]

Fish and Privilege

The Ethics Series

“A fish examines everything but the water in which it swims.”
— Marshall McLuhan

We simply aren’t fully aware of the privileged life we live in the office. […]

What’s Called For?

What’s Called For?

“What have you given us, Mr. Franklin?”
“A Republic madam, if you can keep it!”

Demagogue
A “demagogue” (from the Greek: Demos “the People” + Agogos “leading”) […]

Asking Too Much?

Asking Too Much?

“Stop me if I get shrill!”
– Editorial Team Admonition

Ethics requires neither an Axe nor a Scale. It simply takes things […]

Broken Compass

“Look Within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will bubble up if thou wilt ever dig!”

– Marcus Aurelius

 The Indications

GM, McKinsey, Volkswagen. All part of the international economic firmament; and each one undergoing painful ethics audits and self-evaluation.

GM for installing faulty ignition […]

By Another Door

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

– William Bruce Cameron

“Some answers come not by thinking, but by feeling.”

– J. R. StJohn

 So you’ve come a long way, spent the night in the hotel across the street, put on your serious suit and the killer tie. Walked with your team in a caravan with your computers, […]

Tearing Ourselves Apart

Disintegrate
Definition:

1. To separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; to break up, deteriorate.
2. To decay.
3. To reduce to particles, fragments or parts, break up or destroy the cohesion of.

We have reached a critical point in our cultural evolution where it is standard practice to commit “crimes of the […]