Giving Voice to Values : How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right
by Mary C. GentileFormat: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2010-08-24
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary
Through research-based advice, practical exercises, and scripts for handling a wide range of ethical dilemmas, Gentile empowers business leaders with the skills to voice and act on their values, and align their professional path with their principles.
Author Biography
Mary C. Gentile, Ph.D., consults on management education and values-driven leadership. In her ten-year tenure at Harvard Business School, she developed and taught the school’s first course on managing diversity, and helped design and taught its first required module on ethical decision-making. Currently she 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 book on ethics and diversity. She lives in Arlington, MA.
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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