If we know pornography when we see it and are best judged by what we do when no one else is watching, how can we practice and preach professional integrity and ethics?
Recently I was hosting a session of my Rainmaker Roundtable, a select group of entrepreneurs who sell services to other owners, on the topic of professional integrity and ethics. With their input and my further thinking, here are my three conclusions.
1. Know exactly who your client is and always serve them best. For example, if your client is the firm and the owner is a destructive influence as its president, you have the duty to do what is best for the company up to and including removing the president so the owner and the company will thrive.
2. Be true to how you make money and don’t compromise. For example, if you make money dispensing unbiased advice, don’t take a commission recommending a vendor who provides what you just prescribed
3. Always practice transparency unless it compromises confidentiality. For example, if you will make money, benefit, or be placed in a compromising position by learning or knowing some information, tell the person providing the information why, beware ,or to stop. And when the information comes from your client, (See #1 above) it is absolutely confidential.
What do you think?
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