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More copies of this ISBN:Saving the Corporate Soul & (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own: Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Integrity and Profitability Without Selling Outby David Batstone
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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.
Book News Annotation:Batstone, founding editor of magazine and executive
editor of Sojourners magazine, offers strategies and inspiration
for revitalizing corporations and the people in them. Arguing that
it's not necessary to sacrifice one's soul while building corporate
and personal success, he relates real-life stories of how people have
dealt with challenges to their values and how corporations can put
their resources at the service of the people they employ and serve.
Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Review:"If you want to be inspired how to make a buck without selling out, you must read this book. Batstone shows us how to put values at the core of a profitable enterprise." Ben Cohen, cofounder, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
Review:"Corporations do have souls and they can be saved. What's more, saving them is important for society, good for the economy, and even profitable for the corporations themselves. Every corporate executive shoudl read this book as a first step toward redemption." Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, professor of social and economic policy, Brandeis University
Review:"The nation's foremost expert on ethics." USA Weekend
Review:"With easy-reading eloquence, David Batstone convincingly contends that stripping corporate morality away from personal morality ultimately corrupts both. His creative corporate soul metaphor is an evocative reminder that values underlie everything, that 'every action a corporation takes [is] a statement about what it stands for.'" John Carver, suthor, Boards That Make a Difference
Synopsis:This clearly written and hard hitting book shines a much- needed light on ten clear principles for deciding whether an organization is as credible, trustworthy and soluble and the vital signs by which to monitor these principles. The author provides tools, strategies and inspiration for the revitalization of corporations and the people in them and he relates very personal "quiet hero" stories to exemplify how people have dealt with challenges to their own values as well as how corporations can put their structures at the service of the people they employ and serve.
Synopsis:What is it about the modern corporation that makes joining it feel like we're making a Mephisto bargain for our soul? Batstone argues that it is not necessary to sacrifice one's soul while building corporate and personal success.
Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.
About the AuthorDavid 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. Table of ContentsLeadership and governance — Transparency and integrity — Community — Customer care — Valuing the worker — Respect for the environment — Equality and diversity — Globalization.
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