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Examples of the Four Way Test in Business

From the Rotary Club of New York City #6 in a 2003 club newsletter came this item from Matts O. Ingemanson

Rotarian Taylor Gray sent the following very interesting information about Walgreens:

I was just reading the Walgreens annual report. In 1956, Charles R. Walgreen Jr, the son of the drug store chain's founder, adopted the Rotary Four Way Test as the firm's set of guiding principles to guide employees to consider when making decisions about what they think, say or do. It now hangs in the nearly 4,000 stores that Walgreens runs.

Regards,

Taylor

Billboard put up by Rotary Club of Oakland #3 in the late 1950's.

Lighter from the collection of Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler

The Four-Way Test

One of Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.'s most enduring contributions to the company that his father founded has been the Four-Way Test, written by a friend at Rotary International and adapted for Walgreens in 1955. Based on the ethical business principles he learned from his father, these four questions are the foundation of the Walgreen Way:

Is it the truth?

Is it fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendship?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

What do these questions have to do with diversity?

Everything.

At Walgreens, we care deeply about treating everyone with respect. As it is stated in the Walgreen Creed, "We believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in cheer, in friendship, and in honest competition." That's the right way to do business, and it gives Walgreens a tremendous competitive advantage.

Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.

Former Chairman and President

Four way test sleeps…

- Rtr. Rajesh Bajracharya (7^th Sept. 2005)

Everyone needs a break

Accomplishing a huge task

Everyone does need a break

When one courageously unveils real mask

Everyone needs a break

So does every Rotary

Rotary needs a break

Accomplishing Herculean task

Each Rotary at work needs a break

But friends, that’s when 4 way test sleeps…

For every time, Rotary deceives

Club selfishness and the four way test sleeps

Whenever raw overtaking rules are at work

Without heart, the four way test sleeps

Whenever action overtakes vision, it sleeps…

Every time the four way test sleeps

Evil through dreams it creeps

For every time, Rotaract is forgotten

Through the tiredness, enters sins rotten

For every time Rotary rushes,

The truth, without creating fusses

The four way test slips, it simply just sleeps!

Yours-in-Rotaract

Rtr. Rajesh Bajracharya

District Director, Intl. Service Avenue and Public Relations 2005/06

ADRR Council of Nepal Clubs

RI district 3290

Past President

Rotaract Club of Lalitpur