Pragmatism is widely considered a virtue in business, but it is in fact a perilous approach, antithetical to long-term profitability.
Jaana Woiceshyn
Jaana Woiceshyn taught business ethics and competitive strategy for over 30 years at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, where she is now an emerita professor.How to Be Profitable and Moral” is her first solo-authored book.
Visit her website at profitableandmoral.com.
Top 25 Hedge Fund Managers Earn More Than All Kindergarten Teachers
Why do most people criminalize wealth creation while others cheer and appreciate it?
Integrity in Business and Politics
Integrity is being trumped by pragmatism, both in business and in politics.
Who Is Afraid of Individual Rights?
Why conservatives are either averse to individual rights—with the exception of property rights—or do not see them as important.
Defending Google Against Antitrust
Google is not limiting competition but creating it, through its own innovations that others are free to try to surpass.
Defending Google: Big Data and “Unfair Competition”
New rivals who want to enter the Internet services market and are not putting together big data sets cannot claim that they have a right to the established companies’ data—they have done nothing to deserve access to it.
The Virtue of Justice: Judging Others and Self
Despite the teachings of conventional morality, judging others is a virtue from the perspective of rational egoism.
Government’s Role: Providing Services or Protecting Individual Rights?
If someone steals our property, our pursuit of values is thwarted or prevented altogether. This is exactly what the government does when, instead of letting us decide how to live our lives and spend our money, it taxes us and decides how our money is to be spent.
Income Equality vs. Improving Health
The argument that narrowing the income gap between the wealthy and the poor will improve everyone’s health defies facts and logic.
Product Quality and Safety: Government Regulation or Free Competition?
In free markets with a strong protection of individual rights by the government, competition weeds out bad products and bad companies.
Business Decisions and The Principle of Justice
Is it ethical to fire employees who are on a leave?
‘Sensitivity’ Versus Freedom of Speech
Businesses should not self-censor and appease those who bully them. They should uphold the right to free speech and liberty—and pressure governments everywhere to do their job of protecting business and the rest of us against the initiators of physical force.
Why Be Moral?
Your life depends on it.
“The Greater Good” versus Self-Interest for Profit
The notion that business should sacrifice its self-interest—profit—to some undefinable “collective good” is ludicrous.
Lesson from Brian Williams’ dishonesty: Faking is futile—and hazardous
Why should one follow honesty systematically, as a principle?
Why Be Moral? Your Life Depends On It
Moral principles, such as self-interest, rationality, honesty, justice, integrity, independence, productiveness, and pride, are not based on feelings but on facts.
Inequality Is Not The Problem, Lack Of Freedom Is
Freedom is the only means to increase human well-being.
Three Errors About Business Ethics
There is a moral code that is consistent with long-term profitability of business.
Reasons to Reject Humility
Why do we accept humility as a virtue?
Freedom of Speech and Business: What Charlie Hebdo Taught Us (Again)
If businesses want to operate successfully, they must stand up for liberty and freedom of speech, in solidarity to those who have been attacked, for their own self-interest.
Capitalism Brings Prosperity To All
Long-term wealth can only be created by earning it: by trading value for value for win-win outcomes.
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Jaana Woiceshyn taught business ethics and competitive strategy for over 30 years at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada, where she is now an emerita professor.How to Be Profitable and Moral” is her first solo-authored book.
Visit her website at profitableandmoral.com.
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