IN BUSINESS, virtue is not always rewarded.
"Before he agreed to do business with me, his question was, 'Do you believe in God?' " Mr. Davis also reads motivational books about management and entrepreneurship by such authors as Stephen Covey and John Maxwell, whose messages convinced him that consistency is a supreme business virtue.
It will also help you demonstrate the essential business virtue of transparency.
For the rest of corporate America, the value of prudence which until last year was derided as dithering and having goals beyond next quarter's net income have, all of a sudden, become paragons of business virtue.
While its tempting to deem McSweeney's a well-turned cult of personality, its success has more to do with small-business virtues.
So does your cousin in Seattle who's "in the business" by virtue of running a video store.
But as Mr. Morgan emphasizes again and again, Franklin knew the importance of appearing to be a man of business and virtue.
The root of the conflict, she says, was that she was dragged into working with the business by virtue of her prior academic collaborations with Harley; when he moved his lab to Geron in 1993, suddenly her lab's experiments fell within the company's purview.
Smaller businesses, by virtue of their smaller size will find it a little easier to migrate to Windows XP, but the same premise applies.
Job searches will become more difficult owing to the paradoxical truth that successful businesses, by virtue of being successful, tend to look for ways to destroy, as opposed to create, jobs.
