This topic has been deep in my thought and in my heart for many past months. As a Managing Director of a thriving manufacturing company and being in the business for many years, the questions of where we stand has always came back again and again.

The Questions of the place of the heart in the Business World. Especially in the Past Few Months where more and more businesses are conducted without any heart attached. What I mean the cruelty of human being and the extend of it in trying to accumulate wealth for themselves.

Cases like the followings are really heartbreaking to learn of:

1. The total recall of the toys by Mattel that causes one of the factory owner in china to hang himself and committed suicide because he did not know that his trusted friend has decided to make more money for himself by providing unsuitable paint for these toys that is very dangerous and posed a health hazards to the children.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20254745/

2.  China Egg Cancer Scare - 1,159 kilograms of salted red-yolk eggs, all produced in Hebei Province, were seized in Beijing because they contained the carcinogenic dye Sudan-IV which was fed to ducks to produce red-yolk eggs, which are sold at a higher price at market. No one know how long has these suppliers been doing these tricks and they do not care how many people can die only how much money they can earn.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/189808.htm

These 2 cases just happened to be exposed and they are happening in China, however I see that these problems do not just happen in China alone but these also happen in developed country such as America, Europe, Australia, Singapore and many more.

In fact, recently it happened to me, as my family are health freaks, we eat brown rice most of the time. I have noticed that the brown rice that I have been eating in my office looks strange as it looks rather purplish in colour. However due to my ignorant, I did not question my staff where she bought those rice from.

Until my sister and my father make the same remarks, so attention is drawn and we decided to buy our own packet of brown rice to see if the colour will be the same as the one we ate in the office. We also learnt that the rice in our office left a purplish coloured water upon washing before cooking which does not happen with the rice that we bought ourselves.

Only then we realized that the seller of the rice has dyed the rice to sell it at higher price to our office staff without considering the harmful effect it might bring to the consumers.

It is really sad to learnt that there are people out there who will do anything to earn money. Although admitted that it is not easy to run a business the Right Way, as there are people who will try to persuade you otherwise or put you in a position of difficulty that you have to choose to do the Right Things and Lose the Business or Get the Business but in doing it you Lost your heart.

Well, it is to my believe that lost business can be recovered, but a Lost Heart needs a Miracle to recover. I really encourage all business people to start thinking about this aspects in managing your business and I believe that your business will grow leaps and bounds without you giving up your heart.