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Saving the Corporate Soul--and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own: Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Integrity and Profitability Without Selling Out
David Batstone
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Description for Saving the Corporate Soul--and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own: Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Integrity and Profitability Without Selling Out
Paperback. Every day the media reports on the latest corporation guilty of financial misconduct and public deception. Insider trading, fraudulent accounting, outlandish executive pay and perks-- a steady stream of scandals scars the business landscape. But the corporate crisis is as much spiritual as it is financial. Series: J-B US Non-Franchise Leadership. Num Pages: 288 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Every day the media reports on the latest corporation guilty of financial misconduct and public deception. Insider trading, fraudulent accounting, outlandish executive pay and perks-- a steady stream of scandals scars the business landscape. But the corporate crisis is as much spiritual as it is financial. More than ever, the time is ripe for Saving the Corporate Soul. In this hard-hitting, thought-provoking book, David Batstone shows that a corporation has the potential to act with soul when it aligns its missions with the values of its workers and puts its resources at the service of the people it employs and the public it serves. He offers companies and their employees eight sound principles for doing the right thing and-- citing examples from firms like Timberland, General Motors, Clif Bar, and BP-- offers evidence that principled companies will excel financially over the long haul.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
J-B US Non-Franchise Leadership
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118044056
SKU
V9781118044056
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About David Batstone
David Batstone was a founding editor of Business 2.0 magazine and a contributor to The New York Times, Wired, the Chicago Tribune, Spin, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of two national journalist awards and was named the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the University of San Francisco for his work in technology and ethics. Batstone is also the executive editor of Sojourners magazine, the leading voice at the crossroads of politics, business, spirituality, and culture. Gifted as an entrepreneur, Batstone plays an executive role in a niche investment bank operating internationally in the entertainment and technology industries. During the 1980s, he founded and directed a nongovernmental agency dedicated to economic and human rights in Latin America.
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