Business Ethics in the Modern World

White House Press Sec. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

I spent the years from 1982 through 2008 as a business/marketing consultant, mostly serving large clients in IT and communications technology: IBM, H-P, AT&T, Microsoft, and the like.  During that time I was very dialed in to the ethos in the corporate world; though I spent my career exclusively as an entrepreneur, I formed deep personal attachments to many of my clients, and, through their eyes, I got to see precisely what “life on the inside” was like, with its demands and pressures, its mores, and the penalties it imposed on bad behavior.  

It is from this perspective that it’s clear that a great deal has changed over the decade since I left (and morphed into my current position as editor of 2GreenEnergy).  For example, things like the Volkswagen emissions scandal could not possibly have occurred when I was active.  If someone had said, “Here’s a fraud we’re going to perpetrate directly on 11 million customers, and indirectly on 7.6 billion people with lungs,” he would have been escorted out by security.

All this is timely, given the new career direction forced upon Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kelly Ann Conway.  The words they use to update their résumés based on their most recent positions in the Trump White House are, of course, up to them.  But those words are equivalent to “professional liar,” and the whole world knows it. How that’s going to play in the business world of 2019 is anyone’s guess.  Might be a huge asset.  Who knows?