Business Moral

Can business activity in itself be morally good and pleasing to God? Sometimes business can seem so shady-manipulating the "bottom line", deceiving the consumer, or gaining promotions because of whom you know. But Wayne Grudem introduces a novel concept: business itself glorifies God when it is conducted in a way that imitates God's character and creation. He shows that all aspects of business,including ownership, profit, money, competition, and borrowing and lending, glorify God because they are reflective of God's nature.

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?

Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes offers an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Based on extensive interviews with managers at every level of two industrial firms and of a large public relations agency, IMoral Mazes takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation.

In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing - Acumen’s practice of “doing well by doing good”. Nineteen years later, there’s been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: Impact investment is not only morally defensible, but now also economically advantageous, even necessary.

With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University occupies a unique place in the public's imagination, but HBS has arguably eclipsed its parent in terms of its influence on modern society.

According to conventional morality, either a business manager maximizes profits and necessarily compromises on ethics, or necessarily sacrifices profits in order to be moral. Woiceshyn explains why this is a false dichotomy and offers rational egoism as an alternative moral code to business people who want to maximize profits ethically. Through logical argument and various examples, this audiobook shows how to apply principles such as rationality, productiveness, honesty, justice, and pride for long-term self-interest.

Where are you in your life right now? Are you living every day at your highest level? Are you living an abundant life? Wherever you are in your life, this book will give you the roadmap to live your life at the highest levels of existence. Every day, every hour of our lives, we have to make decisions. We have to decide if we are going to live a life of abundance or if we are going to settle for less. In this book, you will learn the formula for living a life of abundance.

We can't help but be inspired by great leaders. In the midst of our increasingly divided age, examining great moral leaders can help us understand the central qualities of moral leadership and discover lessons for our own lives and times. This book explores the lives of 14 great moral leaders of recent centuries. Incorporating skillful storytelling, short biographies, and analyses, the book presents these exemplary moral leaders as human beings who are flawed in some ways, gifted in others, but unforgettable all the same.

Ethical challenges ranging from designing a diversity and inclusion strategy to creating a process for handling harassment allegations or establishing an employee discipline or termination process can overwhelm even senior leaders. This quick-guide walks you through these and many more critical ethical challenges you’ll face when managing a team and workplace.

Michael Neill es coach de transformación de renombre internacional; o sea un maestro, un guía para transformar la vida personal y profesional de cualquier persona. Lo llaman “coach de coachs”. Ha obtenido un extraordinario respeto dentro de su campo, pues, a través de su práctica, usando el humor, la inteligencia y el amor, logra liberar el potencial humano. Durante 30 años ha sido coach, asesor, amigo y mentor de celebridades, directores de empresas y de la realeza. Da un impulso creativo a todas aquellas personas que quieren aprovechar su propia vida.

If you park all your investment cash in a mutual fund, you are missing out on spectacular gains. Sure, you can "coast" on an annual gain slightly north or south of 10 to 15 percent, but if you were to trade your own account, you can earn many times more than that. Just how much more can your retirement investment grow if you managed it more actively? How does one to two percent per day sound? This is possible with active trading. Indeed, this is possible with the information you'll find from this audiobook, Stock Market Investing for Beginners.

People care so much about their popularity, their appearance, and their status. They care about what people think, whether others approve, and how they measure up. What’s more, people buy things to appear successful and even lower their personal standards to gain acceptance. But how are you viewed by the person you spend the most amount of time with — yourself?

In Making Money Moral: How a New Wave of Visionaries Is Linking Purpose and Profit, authors Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg explore a burgeoning movement of bold and ambitious innovators. These trailblazers are unlocking private-sector investments in new ways to solve global problems, from environmental challenges to social issues such as poverty and inequality. They are earning great returns and reimagining capitalism in the process.

How much does character affect leadership? Most Americans believe a president’s private activities bear little relation to his public-policy decisions. Yet we also believe that moral vision plays a role in strong leadership. Marvin Olasky systematically examines the bond between morals and politics in the lives and careers of thirteen noted American leaders.

Las pequeñas empresas son el corazón de nuestra economía y representan el 99 por ciento de las empresas de los Estados Unidos, según Babson College. Y aunque su trabajo más esencial como propietario de una pequeña empresa es ayudar a sus clientes, también es vital desarrollar algunos conocimientos sobre financiación empresarial. Aumentar su educación financiera es más simple de lo que piensa, particularmente cuando usa una aplicación de software de presupuesto para ayudar.

Increasingly, leaders are glancing back over their shoulders to see if anyone is following. A very costly move with so much changing right in front of them. For too many, this “disengagement” as Gallup puts it, stems from a lack of trust in the leader’s character.

In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice.

The Soul of Capitalism examines how the greatest wealth-creation engine in the history of the world is failing most of us, why it must be changed, and how intrepid pioneers are beginning to transform it. Best-selling author William Greider analyzes how our relentless pursuit of unprecedented affluence has eroded family life, eaten away at our sense of personal and professional security, corroded our communities, impoverished our spiritual lives, and devastated our natural environment.

Personal growth is what The Definitive Values Book is all about! There's nothing more empowering than having your value system organized and logically set into a system that never fails you. After reading, you'll get that and more! You'll understand the keys to self-improvement on a wholesale level that propels you into your respective future with confidence, dignity, and a better knowledge base about yourself, your needs, and all of the other people in your world. Imagine having the life you always envisioned for yourself!

¿Por qué dos ejecutivos de una gran empresa se despidieron a sí mismos? ¿Cómo un estudio de mercado con 250.000 personas pudo terminar siendo uno de los mayores fracasos de todos los tiempos? ¿Cómo un error ortográfico dio nombre a una de las marcas más famosas del mundo? ¿Qué tienen que ver los suricatas con el éxito de una empresa? ¿Por qué el pegamento que no pegaba fue un gran avance tecnológico?