It is the Dawning of the Age of Ethical Business

Dear Friends, Colleagues & Business Partners,

Over the past 30 years, the "profits over people" crowd have gained ascendency in corporate America, giving business its worst reputation ever.  Please join me in fighting back against this "greed is good" mentality (to quote Gordon Gekko) with a new, planet saving paradigm that unites making money with making the world a better place.  I also welcome socially responsible artists and academics to be part of this new community in the making. 

Ethical people inside the corporate space need to begin to find each other.  Both at the water cooler in their own companies, and between professions so that green, crunchy, forward-thinking business people can help each other build and grow financially.  Real Estate is my second profession, having taught college English over the past decade. Shocked by the shallowness and brutality of corporate America (compared to academia), I seek to infuse the humanistic values from my teaching life into a destructive corporate culture in need of healing and repair.

To help in these efforts, I formed the Ethical Business Society, which you’re welcome to join, and wrote a book called The Ethical Sales Agent: a Transformative Sales Pedagogy to Liberate Corporate Culture & Save America (2012), available for sale on Amazon.  Meanwhile, if you have any thoughts on ethical business I might feature in my future writings, or an idea for my weekly TV show on culture & politics, Public Voice Salon, please let me know.

In closing, do you know of any ethical business leaders who I can recommend to my clients or give a shout out to on my book tour?  Naturally, if you need an honest real estate agent in the NYC area to help you buy or sell property, I’d be happy to help.

John Bredin

Towards the Ethical Transformation of Corporate Culture

Hi, Are you tired of the selfish, soulless, cutthroat nature of American business? Do you despise the Darwinian, "dog eat dog" aspect of corporate culture, that has gotten gradually worse over the past 30 years? Do you feel that business might also play a role in the repair of our communities and environment, reversing its current toxic path of "profits over people" and ecological degradation? If you answered yes to either of these questions, please consider joining the Ethical Business Society. Through the power of dialogue, and sharing our stories, let's construct a healing counter narrative to the nihilistic trends in corporate culture. More than that, let's reach out into the public realm, raising consciousness for a kinder, more caring corporate world that might be; and exerting political pressure as we may. Please explore our site on Meet Up, and feel free to become a member today. My own background is in education, having taught English at Rutgers and CUNY, in addition to 3 rescue mission "interventions" at troubled ghetto schools in NYC; each time replacing the regular teacher who quit. Now I see that our corporate world is hurting, as nihilistic, devoid of community, and "out of control" as any of the troubled schools I taught in. Progressive projects of repair are badly needed in the corporate realm. In my new profession as a real estate agent (sadly, teaching doesn't pay the bills!), I seek to channel the ethical energy, caring and integrity of my progressive teaching into a corporate culture in serious need of an "ethical makeover." I hope you'll consider joining me. John Bredin