Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Everything Old is New Again
These are interesting times. People are actually saving up to buy things. They talk about growing gardens, putting up preserves and even hunting to get back to simpler days and cheaper living. Corporate America continues to evolve and tout their "changes". Anyone remember hearing about an ancient dude named Aristotle? He was a philosopher, teacher and writer in ancient Greece. Aristotle wrote a book on Ethics way before Shakespeare wrote plays on violating them. It is a shame that companies are obligated to write a code of ethics that must be signed and updated regularly. It seems that the return to traditional values and behaviors has left something behind, but then again Ethics might just be all Greek to them.
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Have you heard the latest in Ethics? US-European CPG manufacturers formed the consortium AIM-Progress to ensure supplier ethics. Each of a suppliers' sites can pay $2200 to take a survey, roughly $10,000 to endure Third-party audit, so the supplier doesn't have to put up with audits from the member companies. However, every other company is still available to say that's not enough. Ethics? How is $2200 for a survey ethical to continue to do business with a customer ethical?
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