Conclusion

Abstract

The author of this book would rather be approximately right than precisely wrong. He prefers to put a red hat on the old dictionary and make a tempest at the bottom of the inkstand, leap out of the ring and break the compass. And most of all - point the finger at the wrongdoers and call them by their name. Having worked for more than 33 years in the business environment, he knows all the tricks of the trade. When those tricks became unethical, he decided to write a thesis and books on business ethics and to be active in this field. However, he soon found out that more activism is needed in order to make an impact in the near future. The dignified, laid-back approach of some business ethicists is not sufficient to change the deteriorating situation, possibly because those ethicists are often academic professors who have not worked in the actual business world and have learned of unethical conduct as a result of research and not of personal experience.

“Je fis souffler un vent révolutionnaire.Je mis un bonnet rouge au vieux dictionnaire. Plus de mot sénateur! plus de mot roturier! Je fis une tempête au fond de I’encrier, Et je melai, parmi les ombres débordées, Au peuple noir des mots I’essaim blanc des idées; Et je dis: Pas de mot ou I’idee au vol pur Ne puisse se poser, toute humide d’azur! ...Je bon dis hors du cercle et brisai le compas. Je nommai le cochon par son nom; pourquoi pas?" (Vietor Hugo, Reponse a un acte d’accusation, Reply to a bill of indictment) “I have swept a revolutionary wind. I have put a red hat on the old dictionary. No more noble! no more common people! I have made atempest at the bottom of the inkstand, And I have blended, between the overloaded shadows, The white swarm of ideas with the black multitude of words; And I said: No words where the pure flight of ideas Cannot land on, all humid from the azure sky! ...I have leaped out ofthe ring and broken the compass.I have pointed the finger at the pig; why not?”