The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society
Faced today with wildly conflicting values and opinions with regard to the environment, jobs, affirmative action, and leadership, business executives must somehow formulate a coherent corporate policy. In this book, O'Toole, executive director of the Leadership Institute, attempts such a guide through the minefield of divergent social and political values by offering an understanding of the historical and philosophical issues simmering beneath modern business conflicts. O'Toole examines the four great themes--or dreams--of the "good society": liberty, equality, efficiency, and community. He discusses these themes in relation to the ideas of such thinkers as Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson. This thought-provoking work is recommended especially to university collections. -- Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib. , Jamaica, New YorkCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.