Credit: Isaac Wedin
This time of year, I often think of having friends over for a nice barbeque in the backyard; a chance to visit and discuss current events while enjoying mouthwatering barbeque chicken, delicious New Jersey corn, and farm-ripe tomatoes.
Over the past ten days or so, many conversations with business friends of mine have included chicken, but not my backyard barbeque version. They all are curious what I think of the big kerfuffle going on about Chick-fil-A. News outlets all over the world are still feasting on this story. It has generated feature articles and Op-Ed pieces by some of the world’s most respected newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations, including The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, BusinessWeek, the Times of India, CNN, NBC, NPR, the BBC, and even Al Jazeera.
Well, I was also just asked by Harvard Business Review to join in and offer a view, a different view than the other stories I’ve read. Check out the HBR blog (blogs.hbr.org) if you’re interested, and let me know your thoughts.
Thanks, and bon appétit!
David
David–Great post about this subject at the HBR Blog. I have become increasingly convinced that a moral compass is essential for effective leadership. One question worthy of consideration and discussion is: can leaders acquire that compass through a purley secular, humanistic tradition and education? I have my doubts…DL
Thanks, David. Certainly the key is to have and develop a strong moral compass… wherever one finds it!
Also posted on HBR.
I would simply argue that the vast majority of us iin corporate America and particularly Wall Street integrate our values with our work, wittingly or unwittingly, usually secular rather than theistic. For example, John Allison of BB&T bank recently told the New York Times that noted atheist Ayn Rand’s ideas were a major competitive advantage in running the bank. BB&T’s foundation used corporate profits to put Rand’s books in our schools. As they advocated capitalism, the true religion of America, rather than Christianity, the professed religion of America, no one was concerned. Yet she wrote a friend that she would give post-Christian America a new “faith.” When we grow conscious of that fact, there will be less fighting at work, and particularly in the media.
Gary Moore
Founder
The Financial Seminary
Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC.[3] Chicken was one of the most common meats available in the Middle Ages. It was widely believed to be easily digested and considered to be one of the most neutral foodstuff.”
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