A “No Impact Man” is a dead man
University of Calgary, my employer, recently announced that this year it will require all newly-admitted students to read “No Impact Man,” the New York-based...
Moral = practical
Recently I heard a colleague tell someone: “Everyone—except the naïve idealists—knows that one cannot be 100% moral in business; success in business requires compromising...
Is Amazon “fleecing the taxpayers”?
In a recent Financial Post column, Lawrence Solomon accused Amazon for “fleecing the taxpayers” through its lobbying for tax breaks and other corporate welfare...
“Jaana Woiceshyn has written a much needed, timely book for businesspeople, filled with concrete examples, that provides us with practical guidance for making successful daily decisions, based on a moral code that works and that will make us proud of what we do.”
—Doug Arends, Chairman, Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd.
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Ethics for business: Making profits with virtues
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Why avoiding taxes is moral
The recent leak of the Panama Papers—which consist of confidential banking documents that report names of thousands of offshore corporations and their shareholders—created a...
Are the rich getting richer and the poor poorer?
The long-standing argument of the Left is that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, presumably because the former “exploit” the latter....
Self-interest vs. the “common good”
A common exhortation heard today is: Set self-interest aside and act for the “common good.” Businesspeople in particular are accused of selfishness and are...