Giving Voice to Values : How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right
by Mary C. GentileFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2012-02-28
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Drawing on actual business experiences as well as social science research, educator and consultant Mary C. Gentile gives business leaders, managers, and students the tools not just to recognize what is right, but also to ensure that the right things happen.
Author Biography
Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., is director of the Giving Voice to Values curriculum and senior research scholar at Babson College. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine, and Risk Management, and she has written several books on ethics and diversity.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| Giving Voice to Our Values: The Thought Experiment | p. 1 |
| Values: What They Are and What They Are Not | p. 24 |
| A Tale of Two Stories: The Power of Choice | p. 47 |
| It's Only Normal | p. 72 |
| What Am I Working For? | p. 86 |
| Playing to My Strengths: Self-Knowledge, Self-image, and Alignment | p. 108 |
| Finding My Voice | p. 135 |
| Reasons and Rationalizations | p. 170 |
| Putting It to Work | p. 211 |
| Appendix | p. 223 |
| Starting Assumptions for Giving Voice to Values | |
| A Tale of Two Stories: An Exercise | |
| Enablers for Voicing Values: Some Examples | |
| Personal-Professional Profile | |
| Guidelines for Peer Coaching | |
| An Action Framework for Giving Voice to Values: The To-Do List | |
| Notes | p. 247 |
| Bibliography | p. 259 |
| Index | p. 269 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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