The Golden and Silver Rules
The Golden Rule, of course, is doing to others only as you would like them to do to you. But in the business context, where “greed is good,” this ethical idea is often stated as the SIlver Rule: Don’t do something to others that you would not like done to you.
August 22, 2009 at 1:06 am |
[...] But let me not get too far down the road of pleasing vacations and crowded stores. The point is, a week-long celebration of freedom’s labors fits our times and fits our unique national identity. It is distinctly non-partisan. By its nature, it is an appropriate time for dissent as well as assent. And that may be the greatest value of the Days of Freedom’s Labors: reminding all Americans that our progressive, prosperous society – where everyone gets a chance, and every vote counts – is built or abandoned in proportion not to how much we rigidly agree – but by how hard, how honestly, and how respectfully we labor for the rule of law, and institutions and businesses governed by the Golden and Silver rules. [...]
January 24, 2010 at 10:19 am |
[...] the average person isn’t hungry for ethical leadership and life by the Golden and Silver Rules? Like Coco said, don’t be so [...]