– This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is Governor Garrey Carruthers, 27th governor of the state of New Mexico, serving for the past ten years as Dean of the College of Business at New Mexico State University. Carruthers directs the Domenici Institute, chairs Think New Mexico, sits on a number of corporate boards, and has received countless awards. He also holds a Ph.D. in Economics. Describing his work as the principal investigator of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative, Carruthers reveals his studies of comparative ethics, especially cross-border business practices. He discusses the differences between Native American business and standard American business ethics. The studies also explore the interface between public sector and private sector ethics, which often results in what we call “corruption.” Speaking about the big ideas of ethics, Carruthers investigates how different cultures hold different ethical values, and what that means for a multicultural state like New Mexico. He discusses what can be done on a personal and statewide level, from the Cowboy Code of Ethics to Native American community-based ethics. ---Carruthers’ QUOTES: “Live each day with courage. Don't be afraid to make a decision without looking over your back. I think you need to do the right thing. You need to live with courage and even though you may offend friends or you may offend the administration or the boss or whoever it is, you need to live each day with courage and make decisions without looking over your shoulder.” -- Carruthers on the Cowboy Code of Ethics “You know if you are going to be a leader, you can’t lead a Calvary charge if you think you look funny on a horse. You have to have confidence. You have to set on that horse and you have to look like you are a leader, and you have to have confidence and courage to do that.” “We sometimes wonder why don't Native Americans in business and commerce respond the same way we do? It's because in their culture they are much more sharing and much less inclined to have to own things or hold things than we are in the larger culture. I wish we could all learn that lesson a little better because we get into more of the greed model as opposed to the sharing model.”