Question: 1. Can business people successfully guide their conduct by the Golden Rule?
2. Comment on the following quotes from Albert Z. Carr:
Most bluffing in business might be regarded simply as game strategy-much like bluffing in poker, which does not reflect on the morality of the bluffer. I quoted Henry Taylor, the British statesman who pointed out that "falsehood ceases to be falsehood when it is understood on all sides that the truth is not expected to be spoken"-an exact description of bluffing in poker, diplomacy, and business.
The ethics of business are game ethics, different from the ethics of religion.
An executive's family life can easily be dislocated if he fails to make a sharp distinction between the ethical systems of the home and the office-or if his wife does not grasp that distinction.113