Ways and Means for Managing Up: 50 Strategies for Helping You and Your Boss Succeed

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Inspire the Right Work Ethic

Too often we make things more difficult than they need to be or should be. That tends to be too frequently true of sound ethics in the workplace.

I’m not sure why, because it’s a pretty simple issue. There is nothing difficult about differentiating between right and wrong. Yet the business page of any major newspaper is full of examples of people of responsibility in the business world violating the law by one or another unethical or unlawful practice.

Striving to do the right thing in a highly complex and competitive world leads to temptations some find irresistible. Instead of creating and maintaining a healthy ...