Why Bother?
Posted by Barbara Jones on March 31, 2008 – 4:58 pm -Why bother with Business Etiquette - or character or integrity or ethics? There are plenty of people who don’t and sometimes they seem to be getting the upper hand. People who deceive, cheat, and conduct business as if it was a war, don’t worry about showing respect for others.
Perhaps it is the destruction they leave in their wake that gives the rest of us a reason to live differently. Developing character is the hard work of a lifetime. Following our personal sense of ethics in business is not always the easiest thing to do. Those who advance civilization have, up to this point, always stayed ahead of those who destroy it - maybe because we work so hard at it.
It is up to those of us who value character and ethics to carry on the fight. Every day each of us decides whether we will use respect for others to build a civil society or sink into rude indifference. Business Etiquette is about being civil to each other. That is what we choose. That is why we bother.
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