A common understanding of people in business is that not why you should do things the right way when your competitors do not. As a result, many business people take advantage of shortcuts to make their lives a little easier and their endeavors a little more profitable. Asset based lenders, for example, regularly encounter clients who misrepresent the true nature of their assets. This approach often works in the short run, but in the long run, it is bad for their business.
Business ethics consider trust as the rarest of commodities in the business world. Everyone with whom you interact professionally, will respect the fact that you set your personal honesty above the occasional gains. The ability to take your word as fact is the most valuable asset that you or your business can have.
Remember- telling a vendor that a payment will be a week late is not necessarily a terrible thing. Making that late payment without prior notice definitely is!
Honesty and consideration is considered necessary and is simply part of common curiosity, respect is earned not simply given!
People tend not to be especially fond of liars. So, be upfront in all things, give advanced notice of potential problems and never fail to deliver on a promise. Provide a quality, honest service that provides value, promote it, and you will naturally have more and more people linking to you over time.
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One Response to In academia they call it cheating. In the professional world, it’s called collaboration.
telling the truth is also an art. even in mahabharata, there was this scene when the death of aswathama was declared falsely by yudhishthira. but in the end he said “the elephant aswathama is dead”, which was true….
so you see, sometimes, you can convey a lie even when you tell the truth!
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telling the truth is also an art. even in mahabharata, there was this scene when the death of aswathama was declared falsely by yudhishthira. but in the end he said “the elephant aswathama is dead”, which was true….
so you see, sometimes, you can convey a lie even when you tell the truth!
anwesha
September 28, 2011 at 4:37 am