If you have an 8:30 a.m. appointment downtown, and it takes an hour to get there, what time do you have to wake up? Almost everyone will think about this problem backwards. That is, start at 8:30 a.m., allow an hour for travel, figure time for getting dressed, eating breakfast, etc. and you may conclude …
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Carl Mitcham speaks about the potential usefulness in bringing philosophers and poets to the work place.
What is the first step required in creating an ethical organization? Contrary to our instinct or habit, the first step is not to create and circulate an ethics code or statement, nor to hire an ethics officer, nor to schedule employee ethics training. None of the preceding steps will have much (if any) power to …
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Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People
by Charles A. O’Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Minding Organization: Bring the Future to the Present and Turn Creative Ideas into Business Solutions
by Moshe F. Rubinstein and Iris R. Firstenberg
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation
by Edwin Black
What are the primary ethical issues and challenges we must face up to in the emerging biotechnology realm (genomics, bioengineering, etc.)? Who should take responsibility here? What are the first steps to be taken?
