The Story of Success Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business

by Hafrey, Leigh

• ISBN13: 9781590513545
• ISBN10: 1590513541
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-12
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

"Business Ethics? Isn't That an Oxymoron?" As a Lecturer in ethics, communication, and leadership at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, Leigh Hafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don't mix. In The Story of Success, Hafrey draws on fifteen years of conversations with businesspeople at all stages of their careers, from MBA to Chairman of the Board, to articulate five steps that generate ethical practice:

Author Biography

Leigh Hafrey is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-Master of Mather House, Harvard College. His journalism, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New York Times and other American and European periodicals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
The Importance of Story: Placing the Person and the Organization	p. 1
Speak Up, Speak Out: Articulating One's Managerial Self	p. 39
See the Big Picture: Professional Norms, Mastery, and the Teaching Organization	p. 75
Break the Rules, Make the Rules, Absorb the Costs: The Ethics of Entrepreneurship	p. 115
Tell Good Stories: Living and Leading the Revolution	p. 149
Test for Truth: Faith, Work, and the Good Society	p. 181
Mastering Mather: Ethical Practice, Leaderless Leadership, and Our Collective Future	p. 215
Annotated Bibliography/Filmography 105 Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business	p. 241
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