Corporate morals

Do major universities have a morals course for business majors?

If they do, it sure doesn’t seem to stick with them.

When these future captains of industry were children, their parents and teachers taught them not to hit other children; not to be mean; not to steal, and most other ‘not to do’s’ to help them through their young lives.

It seems that’s where it ended.

It would appear, from the outside at least, that Wall Street and the banking business are only about making money.

When did the moral part of the equation break down?

Did it disappear when these young people left home and went to college?

Right after college?

Does it disappear on the first spreadsheet in business?

There’s probably no box on a spreadsheet to mark for “moral.”

Maybe it’s the first business plan, the first year in the corporate world.

Shouldn’t there be a moral compass beyond what parents can give their kids?

Vince Lombardy said, “Wining isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Or something close to that. He was celebrated for saying it, and he never cheated, that we know of.

Other coaches took it to the business level; winning at any cost.

One in particular won by cheating. I didn’t give a crap; it was football.

But is Gordon Gecko the business standard?

“Making money isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Is that it?

Whatever happened to “enlightened self interest?”

I know Gordon said, “Greed is good,” or something close to that. You get the drift.

The point is; the lack of morals in business and banking affects more than football fans; it affects us all.

Sorry, didn’t mean to be unfunny.