Absolute Honesty [electronic resource] : Building a Corporate Culture That Values Straight Talk and Rewards Integrity

Reseña de Choise

One has to applaud a book that provides a template by which companies can operate both ethically and profitably. Experienced in human resource management and consulting, the authors offer a framework for honest and ethical corporate behavior, supported by an impressively documented variety of anecdotal examples. Stories about real people making real choices are an effective and engaging means of enlivening theoretical precepts. That many of these stories feature bad guys such as Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling from Enron and good guys such as Andy Grove from Intel adds to their currency. Nevertheless, this reviewer fears that many readers will start but never finish this book because of its PowerPoint presentation format. Almost every chapter begins with a bulleted list, followed by sections expanding on each bullet with a series of examples in story form. Although the format is attractive and easy to follow, and the stories--especially those at the beginning of the book--are timely, the repetitive structure makes it difficult for the reader to see how laws 5 or 6 differ from those that came before. Primarily of the "airplane reading" genre, this book could also be useful to undergraduate business students writing papers based on secondary sources. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate and practitioner collections. M. S. Myers Carnegie-Mellon University