What Will You Leave Behind?

Quote of the day:
"Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris without a radio. Nowadays people can't walk through the produce section without a cell phone.”
--attributed to Garrison Keillor

Response to "Examples of Business Ethics," from regular reader Andy Breece:

“Your blog quoted Yankelovich - ‘stewardship ethics’--operating with both long-term profitability and the broader public good in mind. 

“’Stewardship ethics’ – what a wonderful phrase.  Strikes me that it could be a lot more than balancing profitability and public good – it could be the basis for developing an approach to applying Christian values to the trials and tribulations of daily life.

“I think most people know what they want to do, or should do, they just don't have a ‘tool’ to leverage their way towards an action that sits well with them – too often people value what others tell them they should value. Even ‘public good’ is too esoteric for many, especially those who are living on the edge.

“Perhaps a stewardship view would influence their valuation.

“Caring for someone else's property as if it were your own, not because it's the ‘right thing to do,’ but because in a very real sense it does belong you.  

“It ALL belongs to you even though you may not have custody of everything ... besides whatever you have today will belong to others tomorrow. 

“Temporal custody is just that, temporary, but what you do when you have custody is forever.”