Personal Ethics

New York Times best-selling author Jeff Benedict has seen both good and bad in his career as a journalist. Some of the best are the extraordinary people he has met who have made deliberate choices to live happier lives despite the extreme hardship that each of them have faced. Although life will knock us down from time to time, this book is an important reminder that we all can make a choice to get back up, brush ourselves off, and keep pressing forward.

Danny Seo is the remarkable young entrepreneur of altruism, the 21-year-old recently honored with the 1998 "Oprah's Angel Network Award." In Heaven On Earth, he offers inspiration and practical advice for anyone who wants to join him in finding personal fulfillment by committing oneself to making a postive difference in the lives of others.

An authorised summary of the full-length audiobook of Busy. So many people feel far too busy - unable to work properly on the things that are important to them and stuck in a rut. This book, written by a well-connected business psychologist, puts that feeling in context and provides practical solutions for people to become happier, more motivated and more successful.

Drawing from his many best-selling books and years of experience mentoring, John Maxwell offers Equipping 101, a concise collection of time-tested principles on how to equip those around you for service.

Consumerism is everywhere. It shapes the way we eat, shop, rest, think, love and believe. We can't escape it, but how can we live well in the midst of it? We are daily seduced by a 250 billion dollar marketing machine. But how often do we consider how this might influence us? The current prevailing orthodoxy is that life should be lived to the max. By contrast, Jesus modeled a life of joyful limitation - free to do; free not to do. Consumer Detox, complete with the Detox Diary in the back of the book with suggestions for each chapter, encouraging stories, and space for writing personal reflections....

What do you do when everything you thought you were created for ends? The life you dreamed of and achieved is destroyed and gone, never to be lived again. Nobody prepares you for life when the sport, the job, or the career ends. But what if that ending is the perfect plan? What if it's exactly the setup you need to pursue the greatest chapter of a life worth living for? Learn how I overcame the failure, the shame, and pain in order to reinvent my life after the game ended. It's time to discover your new path. It's time to chase your next chapter!

What are personal values? How do we decide what they are? What are the alternatives? Seventy-eight value systems are featured in this audiobook, which has been used at Harvard and around the world.

Viața bună poate fi aventura vieții tale, dacă nu este deja. Vei găsi aici un prieten bun și critic spre a scoate adevărul din tine, adevărul de sine. Un prieten egal ție, totuși, mai antrenat în virtute, spre care te cheamă. Norocul nostru e mare: culturii române i-a luat sute de ani să aibă cartea de etică pe care o avem acum în mâini, cartea de filosofie morală contemporană care face dreptate, dar mai ales bine anticului din noi. Viața bună, dacă știm a o citi spre a o trăi, va fi una a libertății, autentică, trudind în fericire.

In life there are few, if any, moral absolutes for us to rely on, and facing an increasing array of choices, we often lack the confidence of knowing we have made the right choice. In Right & Wrong, respected social commentator Hugh Mackay suggests some personal strategies that will make it easier to work out what is right and wrong for each of us in a particular situation.

There is a need for new ideas on ethical leadership in business today. Success is more about making money than providing the highest value to the client served. Greed is king, lies are rampant, and a "whatever it takes" attitude is pervasive when money is involved. Many corporations have become dependent on people losing: losing their life savings, losing their dignity, and losing their way towards opportunity.

More random but sparkling and insightful bits of news and short stories and anecdotes and parables and allegories that remind us of the structure extant in our day-to-day, some of the edges and vertices and angles of the quadrangles we form around us, solid things that we can count on to guide our actions.

Values, integrity, character, and ethics have distinct properties. There are rules you can't break, and lines that you can't cross and remain true. These bits of news and short stories and anecdotes and metaphors and parables and allegories simply remind us that the lines exist. Nothing preachy, merely the opportunity to consider your edges. Rather than following the crowd by seeing how close you can get to a line, why not embrace your values more fully, live with greater integrity, develop a superior character, and always act with unswerving ethics?

Un ensayo para pensar mejor cómo vivir en esta época. "Los dos mundos de la felicidad (manual de autoindagación)" se enfoca en los desafíos que nos trae interrogarnos sobre el significado de ser felices hoy día.¿Nos conformamos con el bienestar fugaz de algunos momentos puntuales, para volver después a una existencia sufrida?¿O apostamos a un disfrute de la vida más difícil, menos inmediato pero más profundo? Lo habitual es que nos dividamos entre estos planos de lo real.

With the toughest economic downturn in recent history, the issue of accountability has taken center stage. However accountability is often confused with punishment, fault, blame, and guilt. In this book, the author argues that the only true accountability is "personal accountability" and the only way to achieve it is to take responsibility for the outcomes of your choices, behaviors, and actions.

Have you reached a plateau with the project you’ve been working on? Maybe you’re struggling to organize your ideas or turn them into action. Or maybe you’ve found that you’re not working as hard as you were at the beginning. Whatever the holdup is, you can learn to overcome it so you can get back on track. This program has been designed to ramp up your performance and make you work harder and smarter.

他加盟微软，仅用10年时间，就从一名普通员工晋升为微软中国公司总裁：他，就是唐骏。从普通员工到打工皇帝，这个职场传奇时刻在激励着无数的职场人士去奋斗。……他加盟微軟，僅用10年時間，就從一名普通員工晉升為微軟中國公司總裁：他，就是唐駿。從普通員工到打工皇帝，這個職場傳奇時刻在激勵著無數的職場人士去奮鬥。

How powerful are your networking skills? In this era of super-communications, "making it" means making connections, and putting those connections to work.

Now Susan RoAne, best-selling author of How to Work a Room, offers her surefire methods for developing your networking techniques and resources and turning your networks into a ladder for success.

Personal accountability is the secret weapon of every successful sales professional. It is the secret weapon of Where Winners Live co-author Dave Porter, who became the owner and CEO of Baystate Financial Services at age 35 and grew it into a $100-million-a-year business over the next 15 years. It is the secret weapon of Where Winners Live co-author Linda Galindo, who transformed herself from the self-proclaimed Queen of Victims into an entrepreneur, business coach, consultant and speaker.

What if we lived in a world that revolved around quality of life, rather than economic winners and losers? In Person to Person, Joeri Torfs and Pim Ampe describe this world and chart a clear path toward it. Grounded in research and rooted in reality, the world they describe is neither a utopia nor a fantasy. They present an environment that incentivizes goodness, fairness, sustainability, and freedom. It begins with the individual and moves toward our collaborative relationships.

Diskriminierung im Zeitalter von #MeToo, Catcalling, Manspreading, Sexismus - nur wenige Themen finden gegenwärtig ein solches Maß an Aufmerksamkeit wie diese, wohl auch deswegen, weil vieles im Umbruch ist. Speziell die westlichen Gesellschaften, aber auch ein großer Teil der nicht-westlichen Weltbevölkerung, befindet sich in einer Art Suchbewegung, stellt Althergebrachtes in Frage, ohne genau zu wissen, was an seine Stelle treten soll. Konfrontationen und Verunsicherungen sind die Folge. Dieses Hörbuch diskutiert ethische und philosophische Aspekte der Geschlechterbeziehungen.