The Entrepreneur Way 1406: Using Ethical Networking to Grow Your Business with Reid Blackman Founder and Owner of Virtue Consultants
Reid Blackman was gripped by ethical problems the first semester of his first year in college over 20 years ago. Countless hours later, after reading, arguing, and teaching about ethics, he’s still hungry for more. While his early research concerned issues largely contained within the ivory tower, his research has become increasingly action-orientated, particularly as it concerns the ethics of emerging technologies and institutions like governments and corporations. Reid is a Senior Advisor to Ernst & Young and is a Founding Member of EY’s AI Advisory Board. He also sits on the committee for “Methods to Guide Ethical Research and Design” for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and is a member of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Alliance. He has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Texas in Austin, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Colgate University. When he isn’t doing ethics you can find him with his wife and children, unless there’s rock climbing to be done.
“I really think it’s important to talk to lots of people and just network your head off. There’s a way of networking that is gross where you just go around asking people what they could do for you. But I think there’s a kind of networking that is on the ethical up and up where you are motivated just as much by curiosity as you are self-interest. And so, you go around meeting people because you are curious to hear what they do and maybe they are in your field or maybe they are in and adjacent field or maybe they can’t help you but you can help them. I just think that stuff is extremely gratifying when you make connections, when you connect people to other people. And then also it could lead to your own welfare because then those people are grateful and then the introduce you to these other people that actually do benefit you. So do not underestimate the power of networking”…[Listen for More]
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