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Why Some Companies Abandon
Their Principles
In the last year many of you have spoken with me about the company you are now in is not the company you joined. It has changed and in many instances NOT for the better.
First I want to validate what you are feeling. Yes, especially in the last 4 months, many companies have publically announced a change in their principles.
Many have issued statements to that effect.
First let's all remind each other that Corporations (a legal entity) #1 purpose is to make as much money as possible with as little overhead as possible. It is their legal responsibility.
Second let's also ackowledge that many of your corporations have very lucrative Federal contracts, like with military bases. Those contracts are in jeapardy if the company is perceived as a problem to the current government.
This becomes the perfect storm for companies who had a committment to principles no longer important to the US Government agencies who administer their contracts.
So if your corporation no longer supports the principles you hired on for
they are likely attempting to protect their contracts.
Third, that said you have decisions to make:
Do you stay with a company who changes it's Direction because it is threatened with it's federal contracts?
Do you leave and what company do you go to?
OR
Do you stay and fight the good fight?
For example you fly the pride flag at your building whether permitted or not by current company policy.
Only You Can Decide what you do. You will need to assess your personal committment to YOUR Principles!
Are you committed to something your company is no longer committed to. Are you at cross purpose with your company. If the answer is "yes" you may have to choose to leave. Even if it puts you in financial jeapardy.
Working against your purpose/principals is not a good thing. It has you questioning your own committment to your purpose. It is Soul Wrenching and soul killing to stay with a company asking you to go against your peronal principals.
Soooo what you do depends on you and how committed you are to your purpose/personal principles. That's not the answer many of you want me to point to. Sorry I have no easy out for you. Moral decisions are NEVER EASY.
Take some time and think about where you and your company are. Discuss this with people you trust. Then check your backup plan and make it more robust.
If you need our support let us know. John & I and our distributors are here to listen and help with these decisions.
Let us know what you think and what you have had to do.
Susan
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