Pro Ethics

We need to apply ethics not only to others, but also to ourselves. We must not harm ourselves by overworking ourselves. This article is great on how vacations are appropriate and can help us better ourselves in the workplace.

Talks about the goods and bads of taking vacations in the business world. I think taking vacations can make you feel real relaxed and when you return from your vacation you feel re-energized and ready to get back on track.

I found this article very interesting. I work with some people that show these behaviors on a daily basis. This has some good advice on how to hande these situations, and avoid behaving badly at work.

This article talks about individuals with toxic behaviors that influence their work behavior and regular personality in their life.

John Morrel in Sioux Falls accused of stealing money from hog farmers by underpaying them.

John Morrell in Sioux Falls and Sioux City charged of illegal fees earned. They say they were mistakes but that much was is easily noticed.

This is one of a series of fictional case studies based on real ethical dilemmas. It is designed to promote questions and commentary. We welcome your participation. With unemployment at an all-time high and 50 percent of the downtown shops vacant, Tony Pell, mayor of Weldon, had been working with a regional business-development agency to revitalize what most locals called "the dead downtown."

Sometimes people seem hopeless, especially after stories like these

Article on a mss grave found by Libya rebels that they claim is a mass grave of prisoners from 1996.

The NBA is currently in a lockout, but a player, techinically an employee, has accepted taking a season off in order for the NBA, or business, to work out their issues.

Jolene Loetscher, another one of my heroes. From TEDxSiouxFalls

Jolene Loetscher, another one of my heroes. The page wasn't working that well, but the movie still plays.

If you watched the " Heroic Imagination Project", it was from TED event. There is a TED organization in Sioux Falls. This is their home page

This is a 6 minute video Cable Hardin and I did for Daktronics. I was supposed to be for incoming employees, to learn more about Daktronics and the values the company holds. It has, however, become somewhat of a sales tool as well. Some customers are interested in who they are buying equipment from.

Money=happiness....ummmmmmm ok.

Poker celebs Howard Lederer, left, and Christopher Ferguson have been charged with profiting from a $440 million online poker Ponzi scheme.

It's called gambling for a reason but these people got more than they bargained for.

This is a horrible article about the way some prisoners are treated in Uganda.

Indeed, why has this been allowed to go on for so many years? Just because "that's the way its always been done" doesn't mean that it should continue that way.

September 24, 2011 -- Updated 1125 GMT (1925 HKT) (CNN) -- The head of Swiss banking giant UBS has resigned in the wake of a $2.3 billion loss in unauthorized trading, the bank announced Saturday. Chief executive Oswald J. Gruebel is stepping down immediately, and an interim CEO has been appointed, the bank said in a statement.

Professional ethics in action. Boss realizes he is only as good as his people under him and when the mess up, he takes responsibility.

I think the opening paragraph says it all: "Discussions about ethical issues, not to mention attempts to encourage ethical behavior, are constantly derailed by the invocation of common misstatements of ethical principles. Some of these are honest misconceptions, some are intentional distortions, some are self-serving rationalizations, and some, upon examination, simply make no sense at all."

I do have to disagree with the author's example of consequentialism. Normally, saving a woman from being killed would be ethical, however, going back in time and disrupting the time line (in my opinion) was not. Had he not gone back in time, he wouldn't have had an opportunity to save the woman and in the end, the Nazi's would not have won WWII. Also, in relation to the fallacy of "It's ethical if it's not illegal" - I don't believe that everything that is illegal is immoral or unethical. That is why laws are able to be changed - sometimes the law is wrong or unethical.

Article about Lawrence & Schiller Advertising Agency keeping their employees tied together.

I thought this was a very interesting post on the other view of unions; why unions can be harmful.

Article about UBS CEO Gruebel who changed the accounting numbers to look more promising then it really was and eventually costing the company billions of dollars.

This is about an international company being recognized for their creative and innovative approach.