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Donald Trump is no role model for business ethics

Hail to the shareholder-in-chief

Donald Trump is no role model for business ethics
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President-elect Donald Trump knows one job — business owner and chief shareholder. He does not have experience in either government or governance, leaving him ethically inexperienced and immature. Many say Trump doesn’t know what he is doing as makes cabinet appointments and plays cat and mouse over his business entanglements.

He can only know what life experience has taught him. Trump studies laws, fines and punishments, and makes decisions accordingly. This is ethical fading — losing sight of when a decision is really about what is right or wrong versus how much it will cost you — and well-studied by today’s behavioural ethicists.

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