It is about time the oil companies take the high moral ground and tell the world what a crucial value oil and other fossil fuels are to us.
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.
Capitalism: The Solution to Mass Poverty
If we want to eradicate poverty and increase economic and general well-being, we need to understand first what capitalism really means, and then embrace it.
Pure Capitalism Everywhere: A New Year’s Wish
Pure capitalism, as defined by Ayn Rand in her essay “Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal,” is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
Let There Be Light
The proper role of the government is not to tell companies what to produce and sell and to consumers what to buy.
Swiss Reject To Limit Executive Pay
Justice demands that people are compensated on the basis of performance, not on the basis of their need or of the egalitarian ideal dominant in today’s culture.
“Victims” of capitalism?
As the system consistent with requirements of human survival and flourishing, understanding capitalism is in our self-interest.
Embracing the Nanny State vs. Valuing Freedom
We should guard freedom vigilantly against the encroachment of the nanny state—if we value our survival and happiness. The only way to do it is to embrace freedom and reject altruism—and to do so on principle.
Are there right answers in ethics?
Ethics education is blossoming in business schools (see Financial Post article here). Yet, the scandals don’t seem to go away: corruption at SNC-Lavalin, government interference in mortgage finance and banking that led to the 2008 financial crisis, new fraudulent...
Rescuing BlackBerry?
The latter, nationalistic motive of buying BlackBerry or any other company is misguided.
The Moral Equals The Practical
It’s the pragmatists—those who reject principled morality—who are naïve.
Banning private health care kills: Equality at the cost of human lives
The Alberta medical regulator’s proposal to ban private diagnostic services is based on the evil anti-human-life philosophy of egalitarianism.
Purpose in life: “the poetry of work”
“Poetry of work” is worth pursuing. It gives us purpose—and it gives us happiness.
In Praise of Privatization and Private Property
Everyone benefits from privatization and free markets. The only exceptions are people who do not want to be productive and want to live as parasites of others.
How To Be Happy
Happiness comes from achieving your values: pursuing a career you love, a romantic relationship, perhaps raising a family, or running a successful business.
The Immorality of the Nanny State
To make markets free, we must fire the immoral nanny state and restore the only proper role of the government: protection of individual rights.
Ending Poverty
Politically, the single most important requirement of wealth creation is freedom.
One CEO’s Dilemma: “But I don’t want to be moral!”
The moral is the practical—that is the reason why you want to be moral.
“You Are Not That Good”– Why Business Leaders Need Pride, not Humility
Instead of humility that the “you are not that good” remark is trying to admonish, an effective business leader needs to embrace the moral principle of pride: the policy of doing one’s best.
Why Are the Intellectuals’ Views on Self-Interest Wrong?
Ironically, it is not altruism but the morality of self-interest that makes genuine benevolence and kindness possible.
Acting on Principle Pays
An MBA student of mine who had just read my book commented: “Those principles you write about make a lot of sense, but at the same time, business is ruthless, and most people do not follow such moral principles. How can you act on principle when others don’t?” My...
A shareholder-employee conflict?
Marx was wrong: shareholders will benefit, not from the exploitation of workers but from their motivated, productive, fairly-compensated contribution to wealth creation. It is not a win-lose but a win-win; the alleged conflict between shareholders and workers is a myth.
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