{"id":316,"date":"2019-08-29T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetalkshop.in\/?p=316"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T12:44:46","slug":"ethics-the-last-course-you-will-ever-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetalkshop.in\/blogs\/ethics-the-last-course-you-will-ever-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics… the last course you will ever need."},"content":{"rendered":"

In my years of life as an employee, entrepreneur, consultant and life coach, I have observed that the biggest challenge to career growth is… not knowing what to do<\/strong>… quite literally. When faced with a high stakes decision, some people are sucked by the quicksand of indecision. Making a decision involves taking responsibility for outcomes. What if I am wrong?<\/i> This is the most paralyzing affliction in modern life. Earlier, it was easy, we just had to do what we are told and the gears of society\/culture would lock-in and convert that into something. But as Durkheim would put it, anomie leads to ennui<\/a> and in a society where old norms have fallen and new are yet to evolve it’s hard to know what to do.<\/p>\n

In Business Schools the hardest topic to teach is ethics. That’s because it does not go with the basic premise of management education – how to make more money<\/i>. Unlike finance, hr, marketing etc., learning ethics will not teach you how to make more money. Ethics is not about How<\/i> to do anything it’s about What<\/i> to do. I call this the Ethical Imperative<\/strong>. We behave ethically because it’s the right thing to do, that’s it.<\/p>\n

So next time you find yourself in the quicksand of indecision, remember this….<\/p>\n

Not making a decision is far worse than making the wrong one. Not deciding does not absolve you from all responsibility about the outcome. That is a decision too.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my years of life as an employee, entrepreneur, consultant and life coach, I have observed that the biggest challenge to career growth is… not knowing what to do… quite literally. When faced with a high stakes decision, some people are sucked by the quicksand of indecision. Making a decision involves taking responsibility for outcomes. … <\/p>\n

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