For example, he says, in the United States there are laws against paying bribes to do business. That's the way they do business. Twenty years ago there probably were people in the exposition industry with whom you couldn't do a handshake deal. What's different is the number of people in the industry as a whole. In other words, even if the percentage of unethical people remains steady, the raw numbers are larger.
Ethical misconduct is more likely to end up on the front page.
And that could be a good thing. The worst thing we can do is not talk about them. People certainly are talking about ethical issues, trying to determine if the line between right and wrong is blurring. The scenarios that follow present situations in which the ethical choice and the choice that's good for business might not be the same. In each case, the comments represent one person's opinion and are not necessarily presented as the only way to go.