Workplace Ethics

In today’s polycrisis world—where pandemics, political instability, online outrage, and fractured supply chains collide—business as usual is a recipe for failure. Responsible Management in Crisis breaks through the noise with gripping, real-world case studies of a dozen leaders who faced extraordinary pressure and made one defining choice: to lead with principle or retreat into safety.

This is the bundle of two books: A Beginner’s Guide to the Platform Business Model and Why You Are Addicted to Technology. It gives you a holistic and well-rounded view of the platform model that shapes our lives today and also lets you discover if the business model is for you.

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!

Leadership skills are essential for everyone, and the great news is that they can be learned, meaning that there’s no excuse for poor leadership. This two-book bundle will provide you with concise, powerful advice based on experience and research ranging from neuroscience to social psychology and backed up by statistical data and analysis.

When Jonathan Keyser entered the cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world of commercial real estate brokerage, he became the worst version of himself and hated himself because of it. Then one day, Jonathan decided he’d had enough. He realized he was sacrificing his values in pursuit of success and that he needed to stop. But this book isn’t really about him - it’s about you. In this audiobook, you’ll learn how you can activate selflessness in your life and find out how and why this seemingly counterintuitive strategy can create extraordinary, long-term success in your own business.

All too often we are presented stories about extremely wealthy people who are held up as role models for a successful life. The truth is that wealth rarely guarantees happiness. This book looks to successful small and medium-sized companies contributing to communities, and the far-sighted corporate executives we never hear about who, while successful, are also happy. These are the true-life examples of corporate social responsibility that this book relies on to make its point. Peter Milewski tells you why and how you, personally, can feel good and do well by doing good too.

Buy this book. I cannot guarantee you will enjoy it. In fact, it is pretty long and difficult and slow in places, boring even, but... Buy this book, because I can guarantee, if you listen to all of it, from beginning to end God will move in your life. I cannot guarantee God’s move won’t be to body slam you to the floor with your own personal truth, (that is what he did to me, twice) but I can guarantee he will move.... So, if you need, really need something but you don’t know what it is. Buy this book.

The Law of Small Things also exposes how our culture encourages breaches of integrity through an array of “permitted promise-breaking”, a language of clichés that equates self-interest with duty, and the “illusion of inconsequence” that excuses small breaches with the breezy confidence that we can fulfill integrity when it counts. Brody challenges the prevailing notion that integrity is a possession you hold permanently. No one “has integrity”, and no one is perfect in practicing it. What we have is the opportunity to uphold promises and fulfill duties.

When we can live our lives first guided by what we believe and by who in our essence we are, it is much easier to know how to live and what to do. Riveted explores the importance of understanding your unique core values, and through 44 stories about real-life individuals who have embodied timeless values in exceptional ways, it helps you deepen your understanding of these essential values. In this way, you can solidify your own core values and lead a riveted life - one that is held together by purpose, passion, and principle.

Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called "sustainable business" practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does and how it does it. This book explores what business responsibility looks like today and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

This book is about how businesses can adopt a Single Organizing Idea and, more importantly, why they have to. Drawing on stories and case studies, and with reference to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, its no-nonsense approach sets aside the ideals to confront the realities of business reform. It demonstrates the power and potential that a Single Organizing Idea can bring to any business prepared to take its head out of the sand and proactively respond to today's challenges.

Neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems - nor are they the cure. What happens after all the bogeymen have been vanquished? What if opposing the incompetence of the European Union, the biases of the American media, the corruption of crony capitalism, the arrogance of political power brokers, and allegedly unfair global trade deals is not enough? The key to American prosperity in this new era of populism is for moral people to make responsibility matter again by renewing personal virtue.

Common sense and prudence have long been among the guiding tenets of society, but in today's economy they have been completely abandoned in the interest of blindly maximizing profits. Common-Sense Business shows that this current economic model is both detrimental and unsustainable, and that we must transform the global economy along the lines of common sense toward the common good.

Soccer moms drive Priuses. Sport utility vehicles are going hybrid. Families are using hemp shopping bags. More and more companies are developing "green" buildings. What's more, the business consultants say going green is easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why?

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world’s biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don’t always succeed. Christine Bader was one of those people. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves in the stories of other “Corporate Idealists” working inside some of the world's biggest and best-known companies.

"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth," wrote Ayn Rand. In the title essay of this collection, Leonard Peikoff applies this principle to the world of business. He shows that certain philosophic ideas, such as reason, egoism, and individualism, are needed to defend and protect the freedom of businessmen, while the opposite ideas, such as mysticism, altruism, and collectivism (which dominate our universities), destroy that freedom.

The Making of a Communicative Leader investigates the effectiveness of communication in a leadership setting and environment. Do you have that itching urge to be the alpha of a pack? Well, to be an alpha you must be daring enough to take out the current alpha of the pack. This requires enough strategy and motivation to push you past your comfort zone. Moreover, there is not a strategy more superior in handling any form of life pursuit than the stealth mode strategy.

People are often skeptical that there is anything they can do to raise society's ethical level. Mark Pastin begs to differ. We can make a difference, and we don't need ethics "experts" to tell us what to do. He argues that we all have an innate ethical sense - what he calls an "ethics eye". He offers tools for sharpening the ethics eye so we can see and do the right thing ourselves, particularly in the workplace, where our decisions can affect not just ourselves but coworkers, clients, customers, and even an entire organization.

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.

In straightforward language, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community - plain and simple. Those who listen to the book will: understand the root causes of racial disparities in America; discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today; and get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap.