Turn peril into possibility

Honor and Integrity are absolutely critical to leadership. People expect their leaders to have integrity. It is not just a nicety but an absolute necessity. If you are not willing to put in the work to develop your integrity you should not be in the leadership business. The Business Ethics Field Guide is a wonderful tool for helping you cultivate honor and integrity. I highly recommend it to any aspiring leader.

"Doing the right thing” becomes significantly more complex when two apparent moral imperatives collide. Often obeying ‘the one’ results in transgressing ‘the other’, thereby exposing a true ethical dilemma not easily solved. Enter The Business Ethics Field Guide! Packed with universal examples and stories from authentic field studies, this workbook can aid and assist us in tackling such moral predicaments and help us find effective solutions that work. A superb guide to personal and organizational ethics!

No one wants to be caught off guard, especially when split-second decisions could lead to a potential career mishap, or worse. This book takes the smart, persuasive, and influential approach that not only gives the reader immediate solutions to real-world dilemmas, but could lead to significant organizational shifts in policies to avoid being in those difficult situations in the first place.

The Business Ethics Field Guide was sorely needed at Enron, my former employer. When faced with an ethical dilemma in the work place, the most common response is what I call “the deer in the headlights” phenomena – we freeze in place with no instinctive action to take. Unfortunately, taking no action translates as acceptance and we are swept along to a place we do not want to go. The practical lessons in this “guide book” will equip you for the ethical challenges you will likely face as you advance in your career. I love this book!

The Field Guide is a must read for executives and anybody who understands that enduring business success and reputation is based on values and sound ethics. It offers a treasure chest of hands on guid- ance, essential to navigate every day's business life. The authors not only succeed in showing how to deal with dilemmas, they also show how solving dilemmas builds personal and organizational strength.

The Business Ethics Field Guide is a wonderful volume on ethics. I have read the entire book, and it is a jewel. The next time I teach an ethics class, I'm going to use it in my classroom. It illustrates that organizational ethics are not simple. Most decisions are very close and require insights in being able to even understand one's own inner voice. This excellent new book solidifies Brad Agle, Aaron Miller, and Bill O'Rourke's position as leading authorities in America on business ethics.

Over the past many months I have become intimately involved with the Business Ethics Field Guide and its authors.  Learning of a specific process to identify and address ethical concerns that arise in business has been very meaningful to me and I fully recommend the book and the process.  My only hope is that in the not-too-distant-future we can have a specific book which transfers these processes into healthcare so that we too can learn the science of ethics.