A Quote by Dale Jamieson

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins. — © Dale Jamieson
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.
I have tended to speak out on the issues that are in the purview of my professional expertise - business ethics, corporate ethics, and government ethics.
The only behavior change would be I won't be that mean.
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
To me, the only way we'll see a collective change in this country is by listening to people who have experienced life in the margins of society, who have lived less privileged versions of my story, in systemic poverty and facing structural racism.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.
You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.
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