6.2. ETHICS IN ACTION

A genuinely ethical community has three basic components. The first is trust: the general expectation among members that their fellows will behave ethically toward them. The second is loyalty: acceptance of the obligation to refrain from breaching one another's trust and to fulfill the duties entailed by accepting that trust. The third is solidarity: caring for other people's interests and being ready to take action on behalf of others, even if it conflicts with personal interests.[]

Can organizations stick to ethical values and still survive in the marketplace? One entrepreneur who set out on such a path was Anita Roddick, the founder of The Body Shop. She grew up in a large Italian immigrant family in a small town in ...

Get The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.