{"id":227,"date":"2015-05-22T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henristeenkamp.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2019-05-06T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:35:09","slug":"the-moral-compass-of-business-and-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/the-moral-compass-of-business-and-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Compass of Business and Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_228\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/henristeenkamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/7178643521_c0b1e40ec2_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" src=\"http:\/\/henristeenkamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/7178643521_c0b1e40ec2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Source: Mike Deerkoski\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Mike Deerkoski<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook\u2019s recent commencement speech at George Washington University went viral as Cook urged graduates to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/17\/tim-cook-commencement_n_7301156.html\">follow their values<\/a> while pursuing a career that helps do good for the world. After citing his personal inspirations that included Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, Cook went on to elaborate about compromising his own values. That included a time as a young boy where he shook hands with then-Alabama governor, and noted segregation proponent, George Wallace. Cook felt he betrayed his own moral code, something he didn\u2019t experience when shaking hands with the aforementioned President Carter.<\/p>\n<p><span>Each person\u2019s own values should represent who they are as individuals every day. While some in the business world fail to demonstrate that, a good business does. Staying on the path of a moral compass often brings increased business and positive attention to the organization. Furthermore, it will often make the company more desirable to investors looking for a quality addition to their portfolios.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For the full article visit <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Henri_Steenkamp\/the-moral-compass-of-business-and-humanity-29c05cef4812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medium<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook\u2019s recent commencement speech at George Washington University went viral as Cook urged graduates to follow their values while pursuing a career that helps do good for the world. After citing his personal inspirations that included Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, Cook went on to elaborate about compromising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,58,75],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-business","tag-ethics","tag-investing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragnarok-ms.us\/henristeenkamp-com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}