Is Business Bluffing Ethical? When people doing business‚ they may use different ethical standards other than what we use in daily life. The majority businessmen manage their business legally; however‚ not all legal business is ethical. I do not think that business bluffing is ethical. I will provide three arguments in following paragraphs which are based on theories of groupthink‚ consequentialist and duties to support my position. First of all‚ according to the theory of duties
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Nicholas Carr is a first gerenration‚well informed author who writes about how the internet is impacting our minds and lives.Since 2003 Carr has been writing critically about the consequences due to this vast creation‚ that is the internet. He has written several books and articles including “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” and "IT Doesn’t Matter". This response essay is to one of Nicholas Carrs articles in particular from The Atlantic called‚ “ Is Google Making Us Stupid
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An HBR Debate to the Editor 1 Introduction by Thomas A. Stewart 2 5 7 6 Letters from: John Seely Brown and John Hagel III F Warren McFarlan and Richard L. Nolan . Paul A. Strassmann Other readers 17 Reply from Nicholas G. Carr Order the article‚“IT Doesn’t Matter” E-mail us at hbr_letters@hbsp.harvard.edu Every magazine has an ideal‚ or an idealized‚ reader. For Harvard Business Review‚ he or she is an executive of uncommon intelligence and curiosity: the brightest
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Albert Carr Carr‚ like various cut throat business men and women‚ makes the claim that business is analogous to the game of poker. Although similar characteristics and tendencies do mimic each other‚ there are distinct examples that find fault in this analogy. In recognizing Kant’s views on truthfulness‚ it can be seen that “it is ok to bluff in poker” but it is not “ok to bluff in business.” 1. The game of poker not only relies on distrust to create a competitive
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According to Nickolas Carr‚ a blogger and Pulitzer Prize winner‚ our minds are changing. In‚ Is Google making us stupid?‚ Carr discusses how we‚ as humans‚ have adapted to different thinking skills to were nowadays it is affecting individuals. He first leads by claiming‚ “my mind isn’t going -- so far as I can tell -- but it’s changing”. This leads into him discussing how he no longer feels he can progress into a suitable book without facing numerous difficulties with concentrating. That he seems
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Short Story: “Bluffing” by Gail Helgason English 11 Total Marks: 24 On a separate piece of paper‚ respond to the questions below in full sentences. Attach the questions when you hand in your work. Plot Elements (4) 1. List and explain any examples of foreshadowing you can find in the story. (2) 2. Quickly skim the sections of the story where the author uses flashbacks. What is the purpose of the flashbacks in Bluffing? (2) Character (10) 3. How would you categorize Gabriela and
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Internet‚ telling how the advent of each sparked a revolution in our culture‚ and‚ in the case of the internet‚ in the way we think‚ going on to say that “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr‚ 7) due to his interactions with the internet. He provides a story that could give an answer to the question we’ve been asking. How is the exponential increase of information that we process in all forms of media affecting the way we live? In
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In answering the question‚ "What is History?" E.H. Carr reasons that history is dependent on the views and opinions of historians. History is "a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts‚ an unending dialogue between the present and the past." His essay examines some interesting points in regards to history and whether much of it is actual truth or simply an interpretation of the facts set before the historian. Carr compares the writings of Acton and Sir George Clark
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involve for the future that will come and perhaps our society is not involve enough in developing new technologies rather than being user of technologies‚ which in some strange way of thinking being only user of computer technology is the same point that Carr mention. Perhaps our distraction by our computer technologies is one of the reason we lost our focus‚ may be Carr’s sense is right‚ our brain neural circuitry is changing‚ and
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discover thousands of sites with information relevant to their desired topic. Although having information at your fingertips is convenient and fast‚ it has stripped the millennials ability of elaborate reading and analysis of a lengthy narrative. Carr claims that the internet has been "chipping away" (Source 4) at millennial’s concentration. Brainwashing them into becoming dependent on the web for the entirety of our information‚ whether it be for educational information or even for a simple question
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