Browsing Archive: November, 2009

Poor Values or Lazy Thinking?

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Wednesday, November 11, 2009,
Can you have strong values and still act unethically?  Of course. 

Declaring your values is not enough.  Your actions must support your values.  Acting in accordance to your values requires continual attention and thoughtfulness because each situation is unique.  

Being able to think critically about a situation is imperative to living in accordance with your values. 
Critical thinkers:  
  • gather and assess information and then interpret that information to understand a situation
  • test their ...

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Real World Ethics -- PR Firm

Posted by Minnesota Student Leadership Seminar Team on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, In : Real World Ethics 
This comes from POPS, a blog about the public relations industry by Jeremy Pepper. 

Jeremy talks about the sometimes uncomfortable position that firms will put their interns in -- asking them to do things that don't seem quite right.  If you are the intern, what do you do?  You want (and need!) the job that the internship could lead to.  You are just a newbie in a company and industry that has been around forever.  You're not sure if what they are asking you to do really is that big a deal - b...
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