Foreclosures Juegos Chicas Homes For Sale | How Some Businesses Use Networking Events And Violate Business Ethics And Values - Business Ethics

foreclosures Once again, I experienced why ethics is so critical for today’s small business owners and why many small business owners just don’t get it.

The other day I was invited to a networking event from someone whom I had just met at another networking event. He said that there would be some time for us to get to know each other better, information presented about his company and there would be opportunity to meet some potential prospects. I asked two very direct questions that I advise all my entrepreneurial and small business clients to ask:

1. Would those in attendance be in my target market of small business owners of $1 million to $10 million in sales?
2. Is this a multi-level marketing event?

I was told emphatically Yes and No. So I agreed to come because I believe in power networking: Attending as many networking events that are in or potentially in your target market.

juegos chicas A recent Tweet was ‘Business ethics is an oxymoron’ - a well used phrase but one which never fails to get my goat. My initial reaction was to reply saying, “Why is it that we feel we must accept an outdated view of business as ‘dog-eat-dog, each bastard for themselves’? Can’t we instead embrace the social collaboration of value creation that modern capitalism can be if only we all try?” - but that was more than 140 characters. So I thought perhaps I’d try to explain my view in a bit more fully.

homes for sale As in this case, not only was I mislead by the individual who issued the invitation, but the associates I met at the firm as well as the marketing director. Isn’t it funny that a firm can’t even be honest and call their marketing director a sales director? I guess by calling them a sales director would be too honest or ethical and might scare people. NOTE: Upon returning home, I did a Google search of this organization and discovered yes they were a multi-level marketing firm. Yes, I should have done this before accepting the invitation, but I believed that the person was forthcoming in directly answering my 2 questions.

So you as a small business person who may actually have such a firm in your formal networking group can avoid my unethical networking experience by following these two rules. (I used to have only one rule, but expanded to a second one.)

1. Directly ask if your potential client market will be there?
2. Do a Google, Yahoo, etc. search on the Internet regardless of the response to question #1

You will learn two things. The first is the ethics of the person involved and the ethics of the organization. Possibly the individual has been conditioned hence why the word cult is used as a descriptor not to think of the organization as MLM.

Business cannot be values-free or ethics-free simply because it is not people-free. Customers, suppliers, financiers, employees and communities are all made up of humans with names and faces. The co-creation of value for all of these stakeholders relies heavily on collaboration.

Is “Business Ethics” an oxymoron?. No - in fact the phrase itself is actually more of an irrelevance than an oxymoron. Good ethics in all parts of our lives actually come back to common sense You can be published without charge. You can to republish this article in your website or blog. Please provide links Active.