Our speaker today was the Director of Cultural Tourism and a member on the Board of Trustees of UNA. I really liked what she had to say as it seemed to relate not only to the business world but throughout different realms of jobs. She started off by telling us a story about how every one has value, and we shouldn't look down on people. In keeping with a theme that we would learn throughout her talk, she had a personal story for this ideal, this one about a trip to Dairy Queen with her children and seeing some other customers while there.
From there she went on to talk about how we are all salespeople and we our selling our image to the world, every minute of every day. After a few more personal stories about business decisions that she has made over the years and how good honest business decisions have been better than the shadier decisions that have snaked their way in.
She showed some statistics that pointed out some semi-positive sides of cheating and then reminded us that is we give in to that, it would be easier for us to give in on bigger, and much worse things. She explained a difference between Legality and Ethics and how they don not always line up. In the end she said Be true to yourself, do what you think is right because it is the right thing to do.
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