Tag: Ethics
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How to Establish Value Driven Behaviour
From Schuitema’s experience the following three managerial activities are required to truly inculcate a set of values in an organisation.
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Our Inescapable Mortality
I must confess that the birth of my daughter made me feel very mortal, and I could not see beyond the fact that everyone around me is mortal.
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Being Stoic in the Face of Uncertainty
In uncertain times, allow that which is not in your power to become irrelevant to you. Concern yourself only with what is in your power, which is the thing directly in front of you.
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The Stoic Way of Life
I really like Stoic philosophy. Stoic philosophy captures an idea which I think is the answer to the human problem in all of its diversity.
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Is Morality an Excuse for Judgment?
Without compassion our moral judgments can very quickly lead us to commit an injustice in the name of what we deem to be morally right.
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The Truth about Morality and Self-interest
If we thought that morality is opposed to happiness and what is good for people, then you are actually placing an unreasonable request on them by asking them to be moral.
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The Importance of Learner-Centred Education
The teacher who considers the purpose of education to be anything but the uninterrupted growth of his learners has done them a tremendous disservice.
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Poor Leadership Drives Away Top Talent
It is not the behaviour itself that is damaging, it is the self-interested intent that the behaviour uncovers that is so damaging.
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Importance of a Culture of Ethics in Organisations
we need to be very careful about the kind of environment we cultivate in the institutions which form the bedrock of our society.
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Lessons From the Philosophy of the Ancients
Poetry such as the Iliad and the Odyssey expresses the divine perspective of the ideal observer who, though deeply concerned, is in a state of complete joy.