Just a short note--I can't believe it's been a year since my last post! Been busy, but that's no excuse ;D Much has happened, but I continue to enjoy teaching, researching, counselling and continuing education (and we know that only ends at death ;-)
Been to a wonderful conference in Malta using Adlerian principles with an integrated approach. We talked about the integrated approach this summer in the Cross Cultural Psychology course I taught. There are many good things to the Adlerian perspective and I hope to be using it more as time goes in with my clients and in my teaching.
My best to you few who follow this blog. I'd better do better!
In Peace.
Lankablue2
Sunday, November 10, 2013
2013 An Posting
Wow! It has been a very long time since posting. As is fitting with my new position-- a wee business consisting of myself--I need to 'promote'. This is antithetical to my nature.
My business is mental health, counselling, lecturing and learning. This is a new phase in life. I've never had a business before and realise my nature rebels against the traditional business model. I say traditional, but am not sure it actually is a 'tradition'.
We've all been rather shocked at what 'business had done' in these last years. But as I've been studying, writing lectures and discussing with students the 'Ethics of Business', I realise there is a laudable 'business ethic'.
In class, we are discussing values, mores, morality as concepts: Concepts I rarely think businesses as having except to market deceptively and gain our hard earned cash by convincing us that we can not 'live' without their latest & greatest 'product'.
The Introduction to Management text I used for this section of my course--which I've never used or taught before--surprised me! There are 'real values', a positive sense of morality, a desire to see good as a business outcome in the world. Go figure!
Actually, this shouldn't surprise us. There are those who, though making a living--a great living--also believe in helping their fellow humans. Ben & Jerry's, The Body Shop are just two businesses which come to mind.
The wonderful thing about a sound business ethic is that giving back to the community and to others has its rewards--personally and financially. It seems, however, by the time our students leave the sacred halls of ivy, they've forgotten this.
Or--and this is what I really suspect--the environment in which they must work, drives this positive ethic underground. Then we have the 'dwarf throwing contests' and other insensitive, money wasting, over-the-top activities done by business because 'we can'; because 'who's going to stop us?'.
Here's my hope for this term and for many terms to come: That my students walk away with their business degrees and their ethic intact; that rather than succumb they overcome and lead the way forward, like Ben, like Jerry, like the Body Shop. This IS a generation that can. I wish them every success!
In Peace: LankaBlue2 aka LankaBlueToo
My business is mental health, counselling, lecturing and learning. This is a new phase in life. I've never had a business before and realise my nature rebels against the traditional business model. I say traditional, but am not sure it actually is a 'tradition'.
We've all been rather shocked at what 'business had done' in these last years. But as I've been studying, writing lectures and discussing with students the 'Ethics of Business', I realise there is a laudable 'business ethic'.
In class, we are discussing values, mores, morality as concepts: Concepts I rarely think businesses as having except to market deceptively and gain our hard earned cash by convincing us that we can not 'live' without their latest & greatest 'product'.
The Introduction to Management text I used for this section of my course--which I've never used or taught before--surprised me! There are 'real values', a positive sense of morality, a desire to see good as a business outcome in the world. Go figure!
Actually, this shouldn't surprise us. There are those who, though making a living--a great living--also believe in helping their fellow humans. Ben & Jerry's, The Body Shop are just two businesses which come to mind.
The wonderful thing about a sound business ethic is that giving back to the community and to others has its rewards--personally and financially. It seems, however, by the time our students leave the sacred halls of ivy, they've forgotten this.
Or--and this is what I really suspect--the environment in which they must work, drives this positive ethic underground. Then we have the 'dwarf throwing contests' and other insensitive, money wasting, over-the-top activities done by business because 'we can'; because 'who's going to stop us?'.
Here's my hope for this term and for many terms to come: That my students walk away with their business degrees and their ethic intact; that rather than succumb they overcome and lead the way forward, like Ben, like Jerry, like the Body Shop. This IS a generation that can. I wish them every success!
In Peace: LankaBlue2 aka LankaBlueToo
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