What Orthodoxies Do You Serve?

Underlying all these events is a question about the culture and ethics of the industry. It is as if, too often, people had given up asking whether something was the right thing to do, and focused only whether it was legal and complied with the rules. The industry needs to recover a sense of what is right and suitable as a key impulse for doing business."

Stephen Green – British Minister of State for Trade, and Former Chairman of HSBC

What “Values” do you use to evaluate potential business practices? Do they align with those of your business or employer?

Institutional Rhetoric, or Orthodoxies abound in every business, large or small. Some of them are phenomenal and helpful, others toxic and problematic for business and society at large. But a larger problem; one I’m profoundly thankful that I’m learning how to address in the MSC, is that most employees never examine or consider what orthodoxies and values they are serving! Yikes!

Therefore, in light of the recent troubles in the Finance and Sovereign State arena's, I encourage primarily my fellow MSC cohort mates, and secondarily those interested in and associated with our Program to consider the words of British statesman Stephen Green above again! For most everyone agrees that our actions reveal our most strongly held beliefs, and how sad it would be for us all if our professional lives were found to be in-congruent with those things we felt most important.