YOU ONLY KEEP WHAT YOU CONTINUE TO DESERVE

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States

True whatever your privileges including those you earned as well as those you didn't.

YOUR LINE IN THE SAND

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

Oscar Wilde 

19th century Irish poet and dramatist

And if death does not guarantee truth, neither will you sacrificing your job for what you believe is principle.

There are things you should defend.

Just make certain you know what they are.

STANDING ALONE

"Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so."

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

1st century Roman historian

And yet it is difficult to oppose majority opinion.

If you are a senior manager in a position with subordinates, peers, and superiors, do you (ever, often) go against what most believe, and if so, how?

Ethics: Mine or Ours?

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."

Groucho Marx

It occurs to me that I've never had a boss who told me what his/her principles were.

I have worked in companies that made public pronouncements regarding company morals and the like but no bosses who made clear public statements regarding their personal ethics.

Come to think of it, neither did I when I was the boss.

Should each manager clearly state how they feel on issues of ethics or should it all be a combined statement of company values assumed to be endorsed by all who work there?