The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart
Author: Jeffrey L. Seglin
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ISBN: 0471347795
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (10 March, 2000)
Sales Rank: 97,626
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Wrestling with the Balance Between Ethics and Self-Interest
The Good, The Bad, and Your Business is a generous gift to readers: articulate, thought provoking and lucid. The writing style is congruent with the author's message. Seglin gives the reader a flexible, yet coherent language to structure discussion and contemplation of ethical dilemmas.
The examples in the book foster identification with business executives who face brutal decisions and lure the reader into sympathizing with their behavior. Only later when the author shifts to the divergent view of the victim, does the reader clearly acknowledge the executive's behavior-with a shock-as being unethical.
The book awakens us to the process of how we can let legal parameters and legal experts shut down our awareness of good ethics. It highlights the importance of breaking the bonds of legal fear to create greater employee satisfaction that in turn leads to better employee performance.
Seglin takes a realistic view of how success is affected by dishonesty and astutely concludes that overall, it "just isn't worth the risk."
The Good, The Bad, and Your Business, displays a compassion for being human in an imperfect world while maintaining laser alertness and wrestling with the balance between altruism and self-interest. Seglin is not hesitant about diving into the trenches but can also climb with conviction to the pinnacle of "Postconventional Morality."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Running a Business Is One Thing; Learning to Think Another
If the past several years have taught us anything, it's that one of the serious shortages among some people touting themselves as industrialists and in-the-trenches businesspeople is the ability to think and make decisions. One of the most striking aspects of The Good, the Bad, and Your Business is that it not only shows an understanding of various experiences of being in the trenches, it also does a wonderful job of helping the reader realize the importance of weighing through decisions and the implications of their actions -- even when those decisions must be made at rapid speed. To dismiss a book written by a journalist (albeit one who seems from the jacket flap to have experience in business) is silly, particularly when the message is as strong as this: For businesses to regain the trust of the consuming public, integrity is required. And try as you might, you can't fake integrity...at least not for long. Business needs fewer silly thinkers and more explorations like this one that get businesspeople to really think about what it is they do and why they do it.
Rating: 1 out of 5
May Be Well Intentioned, But Doesn't Cut The Mustard
Business is my bag. From one who runs a company, I can only say that this book is trying to teach what it knows very little about from first hand experience. Anecdotal business stories are fine for the spectator. But, to then take these stories and presume to have the experience and expertise to write a book? That's questionable (and that's sugarcoating my full opinion). Jack Welch on big business, and almost any one of thousands of ethical and successful small business people, would have earned the right to be listened to. A book written by a journalist who evidently has little if any first hand experirnce with running a business in the trenches has not. As one who has spent my business life, so far, in the trenches of rough-and-tumble competition, I felt ethically compelled to opine that this book may be well intentioned, but doesn't cut the mustard. Similar Products
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