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The Ethical Challenge: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity
The Enron debacle, the demise of Arthur Andersen, questionable practices at Tyco, Qwest, WorldCom, and a seemingly endless list of others have pushed public regard for business and business leaders to new lows. The need for smart leaders with vision and integrity has never been greater. Things need to change—and it will not be easy. We can take a first step toward producing better business leaders by changing some of our own ideas about what it means to "win." Noel M. Tichy and Andrew R. McGill have brought together a stellar group of contributors from a variety of perspectives—including General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and renowned management gurus Robert Quinn and C. K. Prahalad, among others—to offer insights that will help build better leaders, communities, and organizations. They show how to present a "Teachable Point of View" about business ethics that will help all leaders within an organization: - Internalize core values
- Build a values-based culture across the organization
- Become engaged to teach the same values lessons to their staff
- Take action and raise the ethical bar
Successful business leaders must be able to articulate their own unique Teachable Point of View on business ethics and drive it through their organization to ensure that everyone knows the ethical line and is neither shy nor silent if others risk crossing it..
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Rigor Vitae: Life Unyielding: The Art of Carel Pieter Brest Van Kempen
With Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen we get just thatthe prodigious talents of a world-class artist coupled with the investigative powers of a legendary detective.Brest van Kempen treats us to a unique and sophisticated art form. It differs from that of mainstream peers by his:· extraordinary eye for detail and the ability to render it exquisitely · superb knowledge of the secret lives of his subjects · and taste for depicting flora and fauna seldom seen by most observers For several years this self-taught artist lived in his van, where he honed his skills by painting for up to 100 hours each week. From these humble beginnings, Carel has grown in stature in the wildlife art world to receive some of its most distinguished awards. Brest van Kempens art is all at once beautiful, unique, and challenging. It is beautiful in composition, and his technical abilities make portraits seem more like views from a window. Hidden in most panoramas are other creatures and tiny dramas that unfold. Then there are unsettling elements, like when the viewer realizes that animals are much more intelligent than we give them credit for? This is why his art is challenging.Carel Pieter Brest van Kempens art will fascinate anyone with an appreciation for nature and fine art. If you love wildlife and the arts, youll be proud to display this book on your coffee table!137 color plates, 8 ink washes, and 29 drawings..
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The Unyielding Clamor of the Night: A Novel
A mesmerizing novel about the brutal and lasting effects of poverty and violence Arun, a young man of privileged background, leaves his home in the prosperous north of his Southeast Asian island nation to teach in the devastated south, where a civil war between the military and rebel insurgents profoundly affects daily life. Idealistic and driven by a need to give meaning to his life, Arun relinquishes the trappings of wealth to dedicate himself to improving the lot of the “2 percenters,” as the country’s southern population is called. Over the course of several months he befriends some of the local people—Jaisaram, the local butcher, and his daughter Anjani, who reads to her father from romance novels; Kumarsingh, a “go-getting” entrepreneur; Seth, an American-trained army captain stationed at the local base; and various pupils. In Omeara, however, nothing is as it seems; everyone has secrets and truth is elusive. At the village school, attendance is meager and irregular. The only students who attend are those who, damaged by the conflict, are incapable of working in the fields. Surrounded by poverty and the constant threat of violence, Arun’s optimism is eventually depleted and frustration with educating the village’s schoolchildren overwhelms him. When violence finally touches him personally, he is forced to confront basic truths about his friends, his family, his country and, most wrenchingly, himself. .
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Unyielding Spirit: The History of the Polish people in St. Louis
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Unyielding Spirits: Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica (Crosscurrents in African American History (Garland Publishing))
This comparative study uncovers the differences and similarities in the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and Jamaica, and demonstrates how differences in the exploitation of women's productive and reproductive labor caused slavery to falter in Canada and excel in the Caribbean. The research suggests that while the majority of Black women enslaved in early Canada were domestics, the majority of Jamaican women were field laborers, often performing some of the most labor-intensive work on the sugar plantations. While the efforts of the planter class to increase the number of children born to Jamaican women were not completely successful, reproduction seems to have been less of a concern in Canada where many Black women were often sold or freed because there was "no use for them." The Canadian slave context seems to have allowed a broader range of material comfort as well. Despite obvious labor differences, Black women in Canada and Jamaica rejected their chattel status and condition, and resisted slavery similarly. This study is unique in its desire and ability to place Black Canadian slave women at the center of research, and then contextualize it with a Caribbean model..
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