Grappling With The Gray: An Ethical Handbook for Personal Success and Business Prosperity

Grappling With The Gray: An Ethical Handbook for Personal Success and Business Prosperity

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“This is a remarkable book–full of engaging case studies on a wide range of topics and full of practical wisdom.” –Joseph L. Badaracco, Harvard Business School Professor of Ethics and author of Defining Moments

“Grappling with the Gray is particularly rich in its content and has a rare and thought-provoking blend of wisdom and practical insight.” —Daniel Grunewald, Director, Jewish Association for Business Ethics

“Yonason Goldson trains us how to think ethically, to shape our natural responses through ethical training and mold the way we deal with the world.” —Simcha Weinberg, Founder and President, The Foundation Stone

Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives. It provides a guided discussion of how to work inward from both extremes toward a rational and equitable middle.

Simply stated, a business culture driven by profits at the expense of values is destined to fail. Research shows that companies ranked highest for ethics grow faster than companies that aren’t. Work environments are more pleasant. Employees are more satisfied, engaged, loyal, passionate, and productive. Turnover costs are less. Brand image shines. Cultivating a culture of ethics is the time-tested formula for spectacular success.

The thought questions and discussions that follow each case study offer the opportunity to develop the ethical mindset that enables us to see the bigger picture, engage in civil debate, and work effectively toward consensus.

Raising our ethical awareness ultimately produces a culture where compliance laws take care of themselves and a workforce that feels empowered, appreciated, and invested in a common vision that accelerates success.

Business Ethics and Rational Corporate Policies: Leveraging Human Resources in Organizations

Business Ethics and Rational Corporate Policies: Leveraging Human Resources in Organizations

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As internal doubts persist on whether an individual adheres to business ethics and corporate policies, readers need to utilize this book in order to develop moral reasoning by demonstrating the moral entity consideration principle. This is vital in terms of coping with an internationalized business environment where human resources must adhere to multidimensional and demanding policies, while attempting to develop their mindset capacity of ethical thinking. This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance, by analyzing the moral aspects of a plethora of challenges regarding human resources management, policy making, corporate responsibility, code of conduct, agency theory, workforce planning, information systems, and employment relationship.

Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile with Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects

Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile with Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects

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Compared to a few decades ago, companies today are faced with a much more challenging environment providing successful products and solutions for their customers. They are dealing with global competition, very rapid change in technologies, and tremendous volatility in economic conditions. As project managers, we are helping our companies survive in this difficult landscape. We are “agents of change” and “drivers of change.”

The most important project management methodology today that will help us deal with this change and this volatility is Agile. However, no one process or project management methodology fits all situations! Agile is not a panacea for all projects. Many times, our projects are large enough and complex enough that some parts of the project are best suited to using a predictive planning approach, and other parts are more suited to using Agile. Therefore, a hybrid approach that mixes the traditional, waterfall approach with Agile is really required in many situations today.

The agile community oftentimes has quite a negative view of hybrid approaches. Key writers on Agile often say that attempting to use hybrid will corrupt all attempts to use Agile, and will result in failure. In this book, the argument is made that integrating these methodologies can be done if approached the right way, and in fact, this is necessary today.

Build Better Brains: A Leader’s Guide to the World of Neuroscience

Build Better Brains: A Leader’s Guide to the World of Neuroscience

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The exciting news is that leadership has become measurable in the brain. This opens a new perspective on “the biology of leadership”.

Have you ever wished to discover what lies inside of the box on top of your head?

Are you aware that by reading this book you will forever change your brain, because your brain is an eternal construction site?

Did you know that we have three brains? One brain in the brain, one in the heart, one in the gut?

With Millennials and Generation Z becoming most of our workforce, the way we think about leadership is changing. Advances in neuroscience can prepare leaders to build a culture of trust and purpose for themselves and their teams.

Build Better Brains is neither a leadership book nor a book on neuroscience. It merges the best of the two worlds to serve a new type of leader emerging with contemporary organizations.

Build Better Brains

  • Offers practical, science-based applications for improving the efficiency of leadership in today’s fast-paced VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world;
  • Applies the knowledge and tools of neuroscience as foundation for leading people and building better companies;
  • Is based on simple concepts, utilizing the latest insights from both leadership and neuroscience, without missing out on scientific facts;
  • Teaches, but also entertains: leadership is full of fights, fiction, failures, but should also be fun;
  • Serves the common need in today’s over-engineered yet antiquated workplaces to discover the magic inside our brains.

LEADERSHIP IS BORN IN THE BRAIN.

Small Business Finance and Valuation

Small Business Finance and Valuation

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According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, over 99 percent of businesses are small or medium size yet the majority of books are focused on large corporations. This book aims to close that gap and also focus on the practitioners—the entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants—and students aspiring to practice in this space.
Small businesses are the growth engine of the economy and it is important that we provide them with the tools for success. This book covers the financial aspects of a business, including those that are important to start, grow, and sustain an enterprise. We accomplish this by providing concepts, tools, and techniques that are important for the practitioner. The overall aim is to provide this information in a straightforward way while also providing the depth required for areas that warrant it.

Mastering the Moneyed Mind, Volume IV: The Gyroscope--A "Personal Money" Wellness Strategy

Mastering the Moneyed Mind, Volume IV: The Gyroscope–A “Personal Money” Wellness Strategy

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The Gyroscope—A Personal “Money Wellness” Strategy is the fourth book in a series about the psychology of money by Dr. Christopher Bayer, the Wall Street Psychologist. The book builds on the foundations laid in the previous three books in the series and delivers to the reader The Gyroscope—a personal wellness strategy, with a robust menu of tools for overcoming some of the critical money problems identified in the previous three books.
After a comprehensive definition of Gyroscope, readers are guided through self-assessments and evaluations, including communication and relaxation techniques—all aligned with or made to relate to best practices in fiduciary responsibility. As a tool for self-improvement, the Gyroscope offers readers strategies for work-environment survival and professional risk management, in addition to techniques for personal deception avoidance. Techniques in this area draw readers into a 15-point Personal Rules of Engagement checklist, and exercises in a personal mission statement, with techniques for success benchmarking, affirmations, and engagement in a personal Return on Investment (ROI) calculator.
As the final book in the series, it offers readers a tangible gift, a section covering the Top Five Things You Should Do Next—a concise, hard-hitting handful of advice that will get anyone on the road toward achieving their goal of balance and fulfillment—a naturally, solid, Gyroscope.

Mastering the Moneyed Mind, Volume II: The Bottomless Line—Important Lessons They Did Not Teach You in Business School

Mastering the Moneyed Mind, Volume II: The Bottomless Line—Important Lessons They Did Not Teach You in Business School

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The Bottomless Line—Important Lessons They Did Not Teach You in Business School is the second book in a series about the psychology of money by Dr. Christopher Bayer, the Wall Street Psychologist. This book builds on the key concepts in the first volume, to draw the reader’s attention to the “dark side” of the business world. Structured in a way that enables readers to examine contemporary examples of willful co-optation, misuse, and misinterpretation of old texts and ideas, run-of- the-mill corruption, and dangerous groupthink, the author examines the personal and broad-scale financial troubles generated by reckless financial misunderstandings.
The book is an exploration of how direct and indirect psychological conditioning eliminates morality from decision making in the world of finance. It provides evidence that ties systemic corruption on Wall Street to the lessons of the storied Milgram experiments (obedience, effects of perceived hierarchy and status, immoral actions—“just following orders”). In the end, readers are led to the “big takeaway:” the need to cultivate and maintain a core of character in order to weather any ethical storm.

Mastering the Moneyed Mind, Volume I: The Causes, Culprits, and Context of our Money Troubles

Mastering the Moneyed Mind, Volume I: The Causes, Culprits, and Context of our Money Troubles

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The Causes, Culprits, and Context of Our Money Troubles is the first book in a series about the psychology of money by Dr. Christopher Bayer, the Wall Street Psychologist.

Informed by more than 30 years of research in the areas of economics/finance and psychology, Dr. Bayer explores the history of our relationship with money—specifically the role morality, and the concept of “virtue,” has played in that history, and the wealth versus money dichotomy.

Filled with tales and exemplifications, the book introduces readers, pseudonymously, to sample patients of money-mind imbalances, such as the “11 million-dollar man” who becomes corrupted by money’s influence, that unbalances their internal gyroscope (internal moral compass). It draws readers to examine past- and present-day corruptions derived from money’s influence and compels them to examine concepts and theories from great economists of yore (e.g., Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and J.M. Keynes) to create a theoretical foundation for what the author calls a Gyroscope methodology.

As a foundational tool in the series, this book invites readers to consider, for themselves, stories of mass mind-control perpetrated by marketing mavens who utilize (and perhaps manipulate) insights from behavioral psychology to generate rank materialism, manifested in ever-increasing consumption, palatable to the public.