7 Questions for Business

In the wake of ponzi scheme scandals and an economic disaster that had a lot more to do with greed than it did faulty commercial mechanisms, there’s been plenty of talk about legislating “ethics.”

Do you feel that’s possible?

Take the poll (in the right sidebar) to express your opinion.

In a CNN interview to promote his new book, Isadore Sharp, founder of the Four Seasons hotel chain, talked about how he developed the company’s mission statement after sitting in on a training session at McDonald’s and realizing that their training literature hadn’t changed in 20 years -

It occurred to me that if you have something that people can understand, identify with, you don’t have to change it. That’s when I thought that we would use the Golden Rule as the basis for creating our mission statement.

You can read the full text of the interview here.

To read the Four Seasons mission statement, click here