I’m going this week to work with a multinational company in the Netherlands and a major part of what we’ll be doing is to work collaboratively to develop a set of shared corporate values and behaviours.
The current meltdown at the Cooperative Bank in Britain,
culminating in the resigned chairman apparently involved in sex, drugs and
expenses scandals, reminds us that ethical behaviour starts and ends with the
individual. We can’t simply transfer it wishfully to institutions.
Taking the moral high ground ‒ being holier than thou ‒ is not an easy position to sustain.
“The cooperative bank: good with money”. Apparently not (in
either meaning).
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