I believe the key to professional and personal success is ethical intelligence. My keynote addresses, books, TV appearances, and essays in Bloomberg Businessweek's Management Blog are intended to bring out the best in everyone. ~ Dr. Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D., The Ethics Guy
What is ethically intelligent humor? No one does it better than Roy D. Mercer. Listen to my interview with his creator, Brent Douglas, at the KMOD-FM studios in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This also happened to be the last interview with Douglas’s on-air partner, Phil Stone, who died of a heart attack two months later.
Click on the telephone to listen to samples of Roy D. Mercer’s work.
You blew it, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As talented as Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Jackman, Denzel Washington, Bradley Cooper, and Joaquin Phoenix are, the nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role should have included the United States Congress for its astonishing performance in Fiscal Cliff Fiasco, a mash-up of the thriller and horror genres. As I watched Congress’s virtuoso display of the theatrical arts, I felt a range of emotions: outrage, sorrow, fear, but mostly utter disbelief. You have to hand it to an actor when he can make you feel so deeply, especially when the script is so lousy; after all, the outcome of the picture was clear from the beginning.
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This is the time of year when we make lists of all of the things we want to change in our lives. Some of the most popular ones are:
When, if ever, can prank phone calls be ethically intelligent? Read my new CNN blog post on this timely topic.
Why should gratitude be celebrated only once a year?
Wouldn’t it be great if we gave thanks to someone, somewhere every single day?
| Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s; then if thou fall’st, O Cromwell, Thou fall’st a blessed martyr! William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act iii. Sc. 2. |
“Thank you,” you say to a young man or woman who has just refilled your coffee cup at a restaurant.
“No problem,” he or she says.
And I say to you, readers of this blog: Whatever happened to “you’re welcome”?
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In an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, Opie decides he wants to win a forthcoming race. He trains hard, does his best, and comes in last. But the boy refuses to accept defeat graciously and instead mopes all the way home. Continue Reading →
I understand why some folks choose to abstain from voting. With so much corruption in the system, particularly in the role that corporations and lobbyists are playing in the political process, it’s easy to see why citizens would be skeptical or cynical about the degree to which they can make a difference. Also, the older one gets, the more often one sees promises made and broken, so isn’t it naïve to think that the results of this election will be any different from the ones in the past?
