Conclusion

Managing the complexities of the organization ethically means approaching every opportunity to speak – written or oral – with humility, lucidity and courage, as the only means we have of bringing the categories, disciplines and functions of an organization into existence.

The challenge is to mobilize this ethical will at times when the complexities involved make the ethical challenge difficult to foresee. This difficulty is likely to increase as technology advances.

• HUMILITY

  • Humility when we are tempted to "summon up" the great principles of Ethics. An ethical attitude doesn't have to claim to be ethical in order to be ethical.

    The daily newspaper illustrates this by way of counter-examples: someone invokes Ethics to support a line of reasoning with statements...