Workplace Ethics

Everyone, at some point in their life, will be asked to be a leader. Leadership skills are highly sought after by employers and are also essential to lasting success in business and life. But the problem with most leadership books is that they are just common knowledge, taken from other writers and not useful. This book presents proven skills and qualities that are tried and tested to help you develop into your greatest potential as a leader. Become more than just “the boss" people follow only because they have to. Instead master the ability to inspire and lead people.

Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the ethics of their supply chains, and how they can give back by donating portions of their profits to meaningful causes. Meanwhile millions of entrepreneurs who want a more responsible and compassionate marketplace have launched a new breed of socially focused business models.

Beyond Integrity offers a balanced approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the listener grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors want to help the listener arrive at his or her own conclusions. To this end, they provide a decision-making model. They also present, in addition to several views on each topic, a distinctly Christian perspective on each issue under discussion.

Los problemas de dinero nunca se han solucionado con dinero, sino con ideas nuevas. Sin embargo, cuando pasamos por dificultades económicas, toda nuestra energía se canaliza en tratar de resolverlas, y - paradójicamente - no generamos ideas nuevas. Por eso este audiolibro no trata tanto sobre dinero, sino sobre cómo recuperar la libertad sobre tu tiempo y tu energía. Para ello, debes aprender primero qué es el dinero, los mitos y las creencias que tenemos sobre el mismo, así como las actitudes necesarias para mejorar tu situación económica.

Actionable Ethics is part of a larger regimen of ethics training, for the company (but, more broadly-speaking, for life). What makes it different is the fact that it shares techniques gleaned from neuroscience on how to make moral behavior habitual. As Aristotle said, “Excellence is not an act, but a habit." Almost every other ethics book or course available addresses itself to the front of the brain (where executive function takes place). Actionable Ethics, by contrast, addresses itself to the back of the brain, where habit-formation occurs.

Business leaders today are struggling to manage conflicting imperatives, those of the emerging digital world and those of the bureaucratic world of the past. The act of digital transformation requires a deep change in the moral outlook and ethical assumptions of a business.

What are the forces that are reshaping the relationship between the two? What can we all do to strengthen the relationship between purpose and profit as entrepreneurs, managers, employees, consumers, and investors? Backed by cutting-edge research, Purpose and Profit provides answers to these fundamental questions that are increasingly defining the business landscape all around the world.

"பாபிலோனின் மிகப் பெரிய பணக்காரர்" புத்தகம் நிதித் திட்டமிடல் மற்றும் சுய முன்னேற்றத்தில் மிகவும் பிரபலமான மற்றும் ஊக்கமளிக்கும் புத்தகமாகக் கருதப்பட வேண்டிய ஒன்று.

Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers - promises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done.

Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future finances - and when the farm gets sold out from underneath major corporations or public institutions, it affects all of us, and in ways we might not imagine. With his trademark narrative panache, Lowenstein unravels the truth about how pensions work in America and illuminates the impending crisis.

Through the eyes of an inventor of new markets, Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation tells the story of how financial innovation - a concept that is misunderstood and under attack - has been a positive force in the last four decades. If properly designed and regulated, these “good derivatives” can open vast possibilities to address a variety of global problems. Filled with provocative ideas and valuable lessons, this book will provide both an insightful interpretation of the last 40 years in capital and environmental markets.

The digital revolution has transformed the world of media, upending centuries-old companies and business models. Now, it is restructuring every business, every job, and every sector of society. Yet the biggest changes are still ahead. To survive, every industry and organization will have to transform itself in multiple ways. O'Reilly explores what the next economy will mean for the world and every aspect of our lives - and what we can do to shape it.

Neste livro, o consagrado psicólogo Dan Ariely uniu forças com o comediante Jeff Kreisler para revelar como as emoções dominam nossa maneira de lidar com o dinheiro e para derrubar as mais consagradas—e equivocadas—premissas das finanças pessoais.

The central problem Hammer saw is that despite good intentions, companies don’t perform at the levels they need to because the way they do things is screwed up. This book is a tool kit for how to do things right, providing its listeners with the skills to make deep and fundamental changes in how companies do their work.

Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes spent seven years in the company of the men behind the largest corporate crimes in history - from the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford.

Humans have two basic desires: to stand out and to fit in. Companies respond by creating groups that tend to the extreme - where everyone fits in and no one stands out, or where everyone stands out and no one fits in. How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality while also feeling they belong? The answer, according to Stefanie Johnson, is to Inclusify.

In the best-selling tradition of Liar's Poker comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting.

Lire (ou relire) Le Prince de Machiavel est passionnant. Le faire à la lumière du monde de l'entreprise actuel très éclairant. Hatim Ben Ahmed conjugue une lecture fine de Machiavel et son expérience professionnelle afin de proposer aux entrepreneurs et dirigeants d'en découvrir les préceptes, qui se révèlent d'une étonnante pertinence dans leur quotidien de gestionnaires.

Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his world-changing efforts, here develops his revolutionary new concept that promises to redeem the failed promise of free enterprise: social business.

Richard Branson, one of the world's most famous and admired business leaders, argues that it's time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values from an exclusive focus on profit to also caring for people, communities, and the planet as he writes: "People often associate me with challenges, with trying to break records while sailing the Atlantic or flying in a jet stream in a balloon or going into space with Virgin Galactic. But this audiobook isn't just about fun and adventure and exceeding one's wildest dreams."

Your brand’s story can’t be concocted by a marketing team or agency, bubbling into some witches’ brew. It must be uncovered by revealing your brand’s most inspiring aspects. The simple truth: if you build on a foundation of authenticity, you can find the people that think like you, value what you value, and are ready to join in the celebration of your story. In Everyone is an Influencer, Kelly Keenan, founder of Brand Story Experts, unlocks the code to recognizing and utilizing true Influencers to soar your organization to new heights.