Comments on: To Trust or Not to Trust, That Is the Question http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2009/11/to-trust-or-not-to-trust-that-is-the-question/ Info, comments and musings on company culture, communications and employee hiring, motivation and retention Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:56:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Miki Saxon http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2009/11/to-trust-or-not-to-trust-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-52994 Miki Saxon Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:53:29 +0000 http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/?p=3165#comment-52994 Hi Bob, I'm not really comfortable tarring all of Big Business with the same brush, except maybe Wall Street and even there it probably isn't 100%. My unscientific guess is that greed is just as prevalent in small and micro biz, but isn't noticed because it doesn't have the same impact. And cynic that I am, I see no difference between Christian greed, atheist greed or any of the variations in-between. We as private citizens could do a lot more by voting with our feet and not patronizing companies whose ethics offend us, but that would be inconvenient and few Americans are willing to be inconvenienced. They prefer to stand back and let other fix whatever, kind of a mental NIMBY attitude. As to the politicians, I've written my thought on them frequently, but <a href="http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/leaders-who-dont-politicians/" rel="nofollow">this post best sums my up thoughts</a>. The tea parties are a joke; just watch those same people scream when programs are cut from their kids' schools, there are potholes in their streets and the cops don't show up fast enough. As long as ideology trumps common sense and elections run on money nothing will change. But screwed up s it is, I haven't seen a different system for which I'd trade. Hi Bob, I’m not really comfortable tarring all of Big Business with the same brush, except maybe Wall Street and even there it probably isn’t 100%. My unscientific guess is that greed is just as prevalent in small and micro biz, but isn’t noticed because it doesn’t have the same impact. And cynic that I am, I see no difference between Christian greed, atheist greed or any of the variations in-between.

We as private citizens could do a lot more by voting with our feet and not patronizing companies whose ethics offend us, but that would be inconvenient and few Americans are willing to be inconvenienced. They prefer to stand back and let other fix whatever, kind of a mental NIMBY attitude.

As to the politicians, I’ve written my thought on them frequently, but this post best sums my up thoughts.

The tea parties are a joke; just watch those same people scream when programs are cut from their kids’ schools, there are potholes in their streets and the cops don’t show up fast enough.

As long as ideology trumps common sense and elections run on money nothing will change. But screwed up s it is, I haven’t seen a different system for which I’d trade.

]]> By: Bob Foster http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2009/11/to-trust-or-not-to-trust-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-52993 Bob Foster Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:21:41 +0000 http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/?p=3165#comment-52993 Miki - This is a very interesting post. I also just made a post on a similar topic and in it pointed out why we, as private citizens and even stockholders, have little say in the way business, especially Big Business, operates. Other than demanding government intervention, which is a tough sell in Congress right now, there is virtually nothing that we as private citizens can do to "...force business leaders to toe an ethical line..." Big businesses are controlled by, and feed off, other big businesses--and the government must bow to the will of big business, if they want the big campaign money it takes to win today. I'm afraid it's going to take more than a few "tea parties" to make any major changes in the way our system currently works. Miki – This is a very interesting post. I also just made a post on a similar topic and in it pointed out why we, as private citizens and even stockholders, have little say in the way business, especially Big Business, operates.

Other than demanding government intervention, which is a tough sell in Congress right now, there is virtually nothing that we as private citizens can do to “…force business leaders to toe an ethical line…”

Big businesses are controlled by, and feed off, other big businesses–and the government must bow to the will of big business, if they want the big campaign money it takes to win today.

I’m afraid it’s going to take more than a few “tea parties” to make any major changes in the way our system currently works.

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