FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, we visited New York City in mid-May to interview Anne Taylor, Managing Partner with Deloitte & Touche. Even after the eight months since the tragic events, we were moved, seeing the landscape in person rather than through television images. “Ground Zero” was just a large hole in …
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Anne Taylor on the difficulties Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu faced with 9/11 and Enron.
Jeffrey Van Duzer asserts that we are at a time in history when business ethics is once again a “hot” topic. In addition to learning macro-level lessons from Enron and its progeny, we can also profitably use this time to assess our own micro-level ethics and to begin to build strategies that will enable us to resist the ethics-deflecting temptations of speed, spin and stuff.
David Gill has believed for many years that recovering the two historic concepts of “vocation” and “profession” would contribute something very helpful to our situation. These two powerful terms can take us far beyond conventional thinking of our jobs merely in terms of “work.”
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