I will be cycling back to Cubeville/ Dilbert-stan after hiding from it in the shady groves of Academia for these past few years, in the next two months. The job I would be taking up is in the field of management consulting, and has a touch of ronin-ism to it. In other words, the predominant aim is to help (and please) different clients on whose projects I will be working on. In this context, I have to think through this important issue of reconciling my personal ethics/ values with the larger company wide goals and aims. For example, I may be required to work for/ advise pharma companies (I will have choices in the sectors I can focus on and specialize in, and I plan to avoid working in pharma) on their problems even though I may personally not like how they market and sell drugs. For this purpose, I have a huge pile of articles on "corporate ethics" that I plan to read in the next few weeks.

My goal is to trend towards Bill Drayton rather than Jeff Skilling; two people who worked for many years in the same setting (and one which I will be a part of) but ended up in dramatically different Dante’s realms. Please do leave reading suggestions in the comments on material that I might benefit from looking at, so that I might navigate such ambiguous waters better.