In life, people like to be treated as an important person, to be respected, valued, appreciated, and considered trustworthy. These are the things that make people's lives interesting mostly in our society. In an organization or companies, people want to hire the person they trust that can get the work done. No employer wants to employ someone that is not trustworthy. In society, each one wants to work with someone that is reliable in the community, and the people around them have to respect them; this is what ethics is all about. It is very important in business that people understand the ethnicity of the environment; everyone has to treat people just the way they want other to be treated. This is the reason John Maxwell said that "there is …show more content…
This book is focused on living people's business lives built on the Golden Rule. Some of the good quotes in the book are from Maxwell, and many good ones come from other people that were mentioned in the book. "Morality is a private and expensive luxury." Ironically, in today's culture of high debt and me-first living, ethics may be the only luxury some people are choosing to live without!" (page 7). He also said that "some people set out with the desire to be dishonest, but nobody wants to lose" (page 7). Everyone in business wants to gain at all cost. Companies fear losses, and that is the reason why so many CEO's are unethical. Furthermore, they continue to balance the ethics in business and common life: "ethics competence is a winning equation. In contrast, people who continually attempt to test the edge of ethics certainly go over that edge" (page 15). "The only way you can make a man trustworthy is by trusting him, and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust" (page 43). "One of the dangers of power is that those who are entrusted with it begin to make its preservation their primary concern" (page 81). "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give" (page 101). All this single standard applies to both people's business and their personal lives, and it is one they all know and …show more content…
The words in the book were inspiring and educational. It all about the Golden Rule. Either they follow it, or they don't. If people behave differently in their business behaviors than in their private lives, then they are not after the Golden Rule. The Golden Rule is something people can follow when the idea strikes them and then when they find themselves not doing it in a different situation. People can but they are not the kind of person to be a worthy truth. The ideal must be used all the time and everywhere. The good thing upon which to reflect in this book is the terms of the decisions people make as they "work ego" and their "home ego." In existence, these should have the same reaction. The point was a bit ruined, but it has some real-life samples that present some examples. Although some specific stories and reference are becoming out-of-date and will become insignificant because they are replaced by latest tittle-tattles, I think the golden rule is good because it is teaching me how to focus on myself as I want to be successful. It also thought me that I have to beat others in other to accomplish what I want. These are the things that so many people do that leads them to have unethical behaviors. There are some ways to work on it to better one's personal life, just like the author