Sandbulte Lecture at College of Saint Scholastica

I am heading for Duluth!  Tomorrow I will present a lecture entitled, “Beyond Thou Shalt Not: Ethics for a Meaningful and Successful Life” to the School of Business and Technology at the College of Saint Scholastica.   I am grateful for the opportunity, which is supported by the Arend Sandbulte Endowment for Business Ethics. I particularly […]

E.J. Ajax Named Manufacturer of the Year

 E.J. Ajax and Sons, a small metal forming business in Fridley, was named 2011 Minnesota Manufacturer of the Year by the Manufacturing Alliance of Minnesota.  We at ELA are delighted but not surprised: I wrote an Ethical Leaders in Action profile about E.J. Ajax back in 2008, available here.   Since then, company president Erick Ajax has spoken […]

Metro Fire Chiefs leadership program launched

Yesterday marked the launch of a cohort-based leadership program for the Metro Fire Chief Officers Association, meeting at the venerable Jax Cafe in Northeast Minneapolis.  The focus of this session, the first of four, was how to make a fire department “grouse-resistant.”  This refers to the natural tendency of firefighters and fire officers to complain, […]