My reply to the gentlemen at First Friday Book Synopsis.

It is time. Absolutely time.

How long are we going to live in a nation where the great economic units occasionally remark contentedly about how they have given a few thousand dollars to charity after ignoring, breaking and lobbying against the nation’s law.

I know what it is like to feel despair about what business is doing right night all over the United States. You feel helpless. But it is still a struggle. Totally one sided but still a struggle.

On the one hand we have those who believe in the great philosophies of history, in Christianity, in the development of civilization and finally those who believe in simple obedience to the law.

You’re right about all this.

James Pilant

There are times when I feel something close to a sense of despair.  It has to do with a simple question – should a business take seriously the call to do right? The despair comes from what I read — in a lot of places/books/articles, but especially in the book I have recently completed, All The Devils Are Here, on the financial meltdown.  The failure to do right is absolutely pervasive throughout the narrative. Doing right is different from doing … Read More

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