Dilbert & Business
I just had to laugh at what Dilbert recently had to say about businesses in the comics.
…but then it got me to thinking, are all businesses built on liars? I have built my career working with many of the departments mentioned in his comic. Today the worlds of marketing, sales and PR overlap more than they every have through the platforms of social media which spreads their messages travel much faster than they every have. One “little” lie from any of these divisions will almost certainly be picked apart by someone “out there on the internet”.
I attended business school at BYU, a religious school that is noted for their emphasis on ethics. Does this reputation mean that that BYU excels in their teaching of ethics or that other schools simply fail in this respect? Or is today’s business world so corrupt that if graduates operate using basic principles of right and wrong stand out? I sincerely hope that the world has not become that place.
