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• In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's…
• Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep…
• The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside…
• Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
• Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right.…
• You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
• Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
• Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to…
• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to…
• If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
• Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.
• Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups…
• When you see people with "the right stuff," those who choose the right over the wrong or the "iffy," let them know you're proud of…
• When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in…
• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease.…
• Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The…
• When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people…
• Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
• You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . .…
• The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future?…

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