{"id":1033,"date":"2005-08-02T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ohio_and_ethics\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T12:45:38","slug":"ohio_and_ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/ohio_and_ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio and Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my home state of Ohio we&#8217;re witnessing a meltdown in the state government (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/12277562.htm\">http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/12277562.htm<\/a>).&nbsp; The governor and others close to him are taking a lot of heat over some state investment funds that have gone &quot;belly up.&quot;&nbsp; Since our expectation level is low for politicians, we won&#8217;t discuss the why.&nbsp; But I am fascinated by the citizenry and ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I conducted a workshop on ethics.&nbsp; It was eye opening to see so many people confused on what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong.&nbsp; My job was to bring clarity and direction (which I did).&nbsp; There were some who came away feeling guilty for past transgressions, as well as those who felt vindicated by stands they&#8217;d taken previously.&nbsp; One the biggest awakenings came in the area of the &quot;golden rule.&quot;&nbsp; Big surprise?&nbsp; It seemed that the golden rule was the answer to our ethics dilemma.&nbsp; Without exception everyone of the participants endorsed this age old principle.&nbsp; There are other issues to tackle around ethics, but certainly the golden rule is essential.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The following are some remedies that maybe my state could use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethics (like love) is a decision.&nbsp; You must decide to be ethical, and then don&#8217;t waiver. <\/li>\n<li>You need key ethical advisers to keep you accountable. <\/li>\n<li>There are no shortcuts to success (business or government). <\/li>\n<li>As the leader goes, so goes the follower<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my home state of Ohio we&#8217;re witnessing a meltdown in the state government (http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/12277562.htm).&nbsp; The governor and others close to him are taking a lot of heat over some state investment funds that have gone &quot;belly up.&quot;&nbsp; Since our expectation level is low for politicians, we won&#8217;t discuss the why.&nbsp; But I am fascinated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}