Be Good Summary

Throughout the first thirty days and upon reading Cohen’s, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything, there are a few things I have learned about the role of ethics in business. Applying some of the books information with my own personal reflections and class sessions, I have learned that a business’s ethical beliefs often times greatly effects the companies partners, clients, and employees. In the pages below, it is my intention to highlight and compare the effects of personal ethics and the impact of business ownership.
Ethics can be defined as many things, morality, the study of behavior, or moral principles that govern ones behavior. However, ethics to me is best described in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure by the philosopher …show more content…
In the world of business ownership peoples words are their bonds and they are what can make or break the company’s future. As we learn more about the business market and the entrepreneurial approach, we can see that there are a lot of opportunities to act out of our ethical realm for the purpose of financial or personal gain. When owning and operating your own business there will always be a fingerprint of who you are in the company, this means if you are a nasty and shady person or unfair and unkind, your mannerisms will show in your day to day …show more content…
Jude’s, the importance of being ethically sound plays a great impact on a business. Whether big or small your company has some public exposure and in today’s world a company’s behavior can be noticed worldwide thanks to technology. It is for this reason that when making decisions in business companies with strong ethical convictions have succeeded in gaining large amounts of support, such as Chick-Fil-A and Target. On the opposite side of the spectrum, companies like Trump Entertainment and Exxon are regularly hammered in the social arena for their poor and sometimes lack of ethical