by Marian Griffin Kloot | Nov 9, 2020 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
I don’t usually write about my personal life here. But this crazy, topsy-turvy year has been a year which has melded personal into work and back again, hasn’t it? I learned a great deal in 2020 and thought to share. I was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, with...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Dec 20, 2019 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
For businesses to thrive in the future, their leaders should lead from a position deeply rooted in ethical values. We’re already in the future, in the third decade of the 2000s, where the vocab about the future of work, and how to work, is so often about change, and...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Nov 13, 2019 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
Some associates and I recently got talking about how to encourage smart young people still studying, or starting on their career tracks, to understand and use an ethical approach to work. Many of the young people we were speaking of have a strong desire to start their...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Sep 4, 2019 | Business Ethics, Education, Uncategorized
In South Africa at the moment, there is outrage and fear related to gender-based violence which stems from the disregard of Some for the value of Others. There is outrage and fear related to xenophobia-related violence which stems from the disregard of Some for the...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | Aug 9, 2019 | Business Ethics, Education, Uncategorized
If you’ve worked with me for any length of time, you’ll know that I am inspired by people who lead from their values or principles, no matter how hard this is. I’ve just read former US First Lady Michelle Obama’s book Becoming. Her story is inspiring, covering her...
by Marian Griffin Kloot | May 23, 2019 | Business Ethics, Uncategorized
Imagine if each of us did a regular ethics audit on ourselves. What if each of us really self-managed what we stay true to, how we behave, and how we lead others, versus waiting for the bad stuff to be detected by others, and then addressing it only because we’d been...