Do you ever find you have more time to read the paper when you’re on vacation than when you’re at home?
I do. And the ironic thing is that the paper I get on the road (usually the International Herald Tribune) is much thinner than my daily New York Times. So in reading from cover to cover, in between filling out the crossword and doing the jumble, I come across stories I would never catch at home.
Like this one: Fake school records shame Korean figures
"South Korea is being shaken by a series of scandals involving an art historian, a movie director, a renowned architect, the head of a performing arts center, a popular comic book writer, a celebrity chef, leading actors and actresses, a former TV news anchor, even a revered Buddhist monk. What binds them is that all falsified their academic records.”
Apparently, jobs are so competitive and going to the right school so important, that people have resorted to lying about their credentials. Except now they’re getting caught. One woman, an art history professor at Korea’s top Buddhist university who rose quickly up the academic ladder, said she earned a Ph.D from Yale, as well as other American degrees, but that is false. She was fired from her job and had to move to the U.S.
The article goes on to talk about a well-known Buddhist monk "whose temple in an affluent district of Seoul had grown from seven members in 1984 to more than 250,000. Part of the respect he enjoyed arose from the widespread belief that he had attended Seoul National University, the country's top academic institution."
Wow, utterly amazing. As entrepreneurs, we’re always trying to position ourselves in the best light, but I would never, I mean NEVER, consider lying about where I went to school or where I worked. That kind of thing is just too easy to find out about, er, I mean, that kind of thing is just immoral!
Trust and integrity are so important to have in networking. Without your word, what do you have? If one thing you say is false, how can people believe ANYTHING you say? And if they don’t trust you as a person, how can they trust you with their business, their money, or their clients?
It’s just not worth it, kids.
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