Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

• Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Publisher: Penguin
• ISBN: 9781101127001
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 256
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Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair and former President Clinton, and influential sports figures like Super Bowl champion coach Jimmy Johnson have all been inspired by the book. In today's corporate upheaval, a new business paradigm is evolving. While many CEOs are being exposed for their greed, truly visionary leaders believe in a goal that benefits themselves as well as others. They realize that it is their vision and "soul" that attract loyal employees willing to go above and beyond the call of corporate duty. And their employees are realizing the same thing: while 80 percent of adults claim they'd work even if they didn't have to, the majority of them can hardly wait to leave their jobs and get home. Good Business starts with the premise that this is an age in which business and work have replaced religion and politics as central forces in contemporary life. The book reveals how business leaders, managers, and even employees can find their "flow" and contribute not only to their own happiness, but also to a just and evolving society. It identifies the factors crucial to the operation of a good business: trust, the commitment to fostering the personal growth of employees, and the dedication to creating a product that helps mankind. Good Business is sure to become a must-read text for anyone who values the positive contributions of individuals in the changing world of business.

Ethics and Free Enterprise for the New Millenium

• Author: Robert C. Solomon
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• ISBN: 9780847688043
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 337
• View: 1524

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Robert C. Solomon takes a hard look at the treacherous terrain of ethical decision-making in a highly competitive environment.

How Corporate Philanthropy Can Benefit Your Company and Society

• Author: Curt Weeden
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9781118001622
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 288
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Answers to the 12 most common and critical questions about corporate giving In this groundbreaking resource, Weeden shows how to strategically plan, manage and evaluate corporate contributions. Questions include: Why Should We Give?; How Much?; Who Decides?; Does a Company Need a Foundation?; How to Give Products or Services?; How Do We Know What Works? The book covers a wide range of topics including: The case for conditional corporate philanthropy; increasing stewardship to give more; assigning responsibility for signature programs; how CEOs leverage contributions programs for maximum benefit; effectively staffing corporate contributions programs; the pros and cons of corporate foundations; and more. Offers benchmarks for determining if a business has a meaningful philanthropic program that fosters constructive corporate citizenship Reveals how an effective philanthropic program and commitment can be incorporated in any organization Contains a comprehensive review of the information corporations need to make informed decisions about giving The author offers a prescription for linking businesses with causes and the nonprofits addressing critical issues in a way that will preserve or restore services and activities essential to our quality of life.

Exercising Effective and Ethical Leadership

• Author: James O'Toole,Don Mayer
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 1136963650
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 232
• View: 5343

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This illuminating and practical collection of essays addresses the increasingly important topics of corporate ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability in the context of effective global business strategies. Instead of condemning business, or exhorting corporate leaders to "do good," the authors deal with the "hot button" issues of our time in a cool and rational manner, seeing them as opportunities rather than as problems. As the authors illustrate, there is no necessary trade-off between business leaders doing the right thing, on one hand, and the profitable thing, on the other. They demonstrate that ethics is not peripheral, or in addition to, the central concerns of business. To the contrary, ethics and good citizenship are at the heart of all good business strategies, decisions, and organizational cultures. These essays offer useful examples of how executives can create strategies and cultures that are, both and at the same time, ethical and effective--the essence of GOOD BUSINESS. A PUBLICATION OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ENTERPRISE ETHICS Daniels College of Business, University of Denver

• Author: Ian Wedde
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• ISBN: 1869407180
• Category: Poetry
• Page: 72
• View: 7660

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Ian Wedde's new poetry collection Good Business, his fourteenth, finds him still in business. At the heart of the book is a stunning sequence, 'Good Business', at once an ode to walking the side-streets of central Wellington and an elegy for the poet's father. Quietly hilarious, the poems are titled after Wellington businesses and institutions - Toyota, Tony's Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the KFC on the corner of Pirie St, and the SPCA. Gradually, though, Wedde's jaunty and self-deprecating tone becomes more serious and elegiac. The collection has two other major sequences. 'Seven dreams' is full of surreal and quirky moments and humour stretched thin over night terrors; and in the lyrical but mordant 'Arriving blind', Wedde travels from Bangladesh to the south of France, playing with the contrasts of light and dark, dawn and dusk, arriving and departing, sight and blindness. In Good Business Wedde 'continues that vivid exchange he has long worked at between the disconnected particulars of experience and ordering forms of poetry'.

The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand: Easyread Edition

• Author: Kellie A. Mcelhaney, Ph.D.
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
• ISBN: 1442970391
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 276
• View: 338

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Advice and queries on personal standards of conduct at work

• Author: Quakers and Business Group Staff
• Publisher: Fast-Print Publishing
• ISBN: 1784560685
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 54
• View: 1715

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The world of work is an imperfect one. Good Business: Ethics at Work addresses the ethical issues that we all face in our working lives and invites us to examine our personal conduct in business. The advice and queries offered are not rules or requirements; rather they represent ideas to aspire to and standards of excellence to guide us. Living up to these standards is not always the easiest course, but they have a practical as well as an ethical benefit. Businesses known for their ethical conduct enjoy benefits from a good reputation, customer loyalty and a more committed workforce. We invite you to use these queries and advice as a challenge and an inspiration in your work.

• Author: Harvey B. Cabrera
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• ISBN: 1434314596
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 424
• View: 2687

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In a desperate attempt to change a grim future, private investigator Nathan Christopher goes on a manhunt to find a ruthless serial killer bent on killing the one woman he loves. Join Nathan and a hand full of nightmares into the dark and twisted story of one man who will sacrifice all that he can to save the one he loves.

Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

• Author: Great Britain: Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Publisher: The Stationery Office
• ISBN: 9780101869522
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 19
• View: 2227

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This action plan is the UK's national implementation plan for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). It embodies a commitment to protect human rights by helping UK companies understand and manage human rights. The UNGPs are structured around three pillars: the State duty to protect human rights; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and access to remedy. This action plan follows that structure and outlines how the Government has responded to the UNGPs and details plans for further work.

How land investors target countries with weak governance

• Author: Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva,Marloes Nicholls
• Publisher: Oxfam
• ISBN: N.A
• Category:
• Page: 6
• View: 5962

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