By Albert M. Erisman A mother and child are walking through the mall, and the mother turns to look at something. She glances back and the child is gone. A frantic search begins. Did the child simply wander off in distraction? Was he abducted? Is he in danger? What to do? An executive walks to …
John Edwardson discusses his time spent at United Airlines.
By David W. Gill Many of our contemporaries think that ethics is only about rules, especially ones telling us what not to do. The pejorative terms “legalistic” and “moralistic” capture the worst of this impression. What good are rules? Their main virtues are clarity and specificity. An ethics statement might be precise: “Do not refer …
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
By James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras
The Technological Society
by Jacques Ellul
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
by Larry Downes and Chunka Mui
It is easy to make one prediction about the Y 2K problem: the hype will grow throughout the year. Even though Lake Superior University placed Y 2K on the top of its annual list of overused words and phrases for 1998, the beat goes on. The headlines on the left are a small sample of …
Gary Ginter on future markets and commodities and dealing with potential issues in an ethical manner.
By David W. Gill Ethics is about right and wrong, good and bad. But so is etiquette: there is a right and wrong way to set the table or greet a stranger, according to the rules of etiquette. So how is ethics to be distinguished from etiquette (or for that matter, from cooking, where there …
Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy
by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
If Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Business
by Tom Morris
Ethics in an Age of Technology
by Ian G. Barbour
by Albert M. Erisman and David W. Gill IBTE Links CEOs, Techies, Critics The Institute for Business, Technology, and Ethics (IBTE) exists to promote the transformation of business through appropriate technology and ethical values. Why do we believe this is a critical need today? Advances in technology, particularly information technology, have created change in every …
By Albert M. Erisman Schools from the kindergarten level through the university level are rushing to embrace technology in their educational programs. Businesses are aggressively seeking to use technology effectively in educational programs for employee training (see Conversation with Richard Osgood). It’s not hard to understand the reasons for this enthusiasm. Information technology has recently …
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