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Absolute Honesty
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Absolute Honesty

by Larry Johnson, Bob Phillips
June 2003
Beginner content levelBeginner
288 pages
8h 15m
English
AMACOM
Content preview from Absolute Honesty
223LAW #6: BUILD A PLATFORM OF INTEGRITY
satisfactory but who hasn’t kept his software development
skills current?
You learn you can avoid reporting the losses of a division in
your quarterly earnings report by shifting the loss to capital
expenditures, thus creating an inflated stock value?
A customer wants you to invoice him at one price and kick
back a percentage so he can bill his customer at a higher rate?
In each case the question is, ‘‘What is the right thing for the organiza-
tion, the shareholders, the employees, yourself, and the community?’’
Guidance from a clear set of noninstrumental ethics can help clarify
the answer.
For example, Larr ...
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ISBN: 9780814427248