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The Podolsky-Sulliger Contribution In 1991 two mental health professionals, Robert E. Podolsky and Gregory R. Sulliger[1], were haunted by the fact that humanity is failing to evolve socially in spite of making rapid advances technologically. Seeing this situation as potentially fatal for humankind, they set out to discover what would have to happen for the trend to be reversed and for humanity to thrive in a realistically imaginable future. In 1993, after analyzing and discussing this question for two years, the two put down on paper a set of definitions and principles which, if widely adopted by our societal institutions, might suffice to ensure humanity’s long-term success as a species. They called this document the Bill of Ethics[2]. In 2001 it came to Podolsky’s attention that Dr. Deming’s admonitions to Japaneseindustry, as well as to industry generally, had a logical relationship to the Bill of Ethics[3]. By analyzing the two sets of principles together he soon proved that Deming’s Admonitions comprise a subset of the logical consequences of the Bill of Ethics. This discovery is significant in two ways. First, it proves that application of the principles contained in the Bill of Ethics to the workings of industry produces a massive increase in that industry’s creativity and vastly increases its success, thus confirming the validity of the Bill of Ethics. Secondly, we can inductively conclude that application of the principles contained in the Bill of Ethics to any institution is likely to have similar beneficial effects as long as the institution itself exists to further an ethical outcome. Thus we can expect Titania, which embodies the Bill of Ethics in both its Constitution and its Code of Honor, to meet with similar success.
[2] See THE BILL OF ETHICS.
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