Honesty is the best policy

This week I have thought a lot about the real impact honesty and good work ethics can have on a society and an individual. President Hinckley in his talk “Stand True and Faithful” explains that we cannot be our best without living righteous lives, and that is exactly the same for a business.

Honesty leads to trust. In the reading “What’s a Business For?” I thought a lot about trust once again both on a personal level and also on a business level, and the reading takes it to an even greater level, our whole economy. I think of my time as a missionary and having a conversation with an individual who explained to us how they are planning to store up an armory and not using banks to hold their money when they didn’t need to. This man has lost trust in our society.  

At work a new position became available and my manager explained that in his pie chart of what the employee needed to have 40% of the chart was trust (and it was the biggest of all pieces). He said if he cannot trust this employee he would not be comfortable giving them the responsibilities. 

Changing topics…

I started and finished reading “The Dip” this week. First off it was short, and second off I really liked it and wanted to keep reading. One thing that I have thought about quite a bit is the importance of sticking with goals. Seth Godin focuses on quitting things that are hindering us, and also sticking with things we determine to be valuable. If there is something we truly want to do, then we need to make the commitment to do it and set goals to achieve it. I am finally at a point in my schooling when I can see an end date (for my Bachelor’s at least). So much of my time has just been signing up for classes semester after semester and not really thinking about my end goal. Now that I see it I am more motivated and more involved.