Conflict of interest

When a person or organisation’s primary interest and incentive contradict the interest of another organisation or the people it represents, this is a conflict of interest.

To understand conflicts of interest we must know and name our primary interest, intention and incentive.

If we are a weapons manufacturer — the leadership team or board — and we are also elected to the board of a prestigious University, what might pose a conflict of interest? Our primary interest is to manufacture weapons and make as much money as we can. There is no dissonance in the primary interest, intention and incentive.

What is a university’s primary interest, intention, and incentive? These three categories are often a source of conflict. Is the University there to provide quality education, or is the incentive to make a profit? Clarity and transparency around these identifiers expose the lies or truths held by the institution or person.

When the weapons manufacturer gets on the Board of the University, where is the alignment or misalignment? What are the potential or obvious conflicts of interest?

In Syntropic World, we hold that every Source Idea that becomes an enterprise, project, institution, or community has a Pattern Integrity interwoven into it — inviolate codes and principles. Clarifying this Pattern Integrity in a public and transparent way enables clearer alignment of those participating at all levels.

We then find team members, including the Board of Advisors, who deeply support this Pattern Integrity in all that they do, and in so doing, we seek to avoid potential conflicts of interest and ethical violations.

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