Giving Voice to Values

How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right

By: Mary C. Gentile

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Drawing on actual business experiences as well as on social science research, Babson College business educator and consultant Mary Gentile challenges the assumptions about business ethics at companies and business schools. She gives business leaders, managers, and students the tools not just to recognize what is right, but also to ensure that the right things happen.

The book is inspired by a program Gentile launched at the Aspen Institute with Yale School of Management, and now housed at Babson College, with pilot programs in over 100 schools and organizations, including INSEAD and MIT Sloan School of Management. She explains why past attempts at preparing business leaders to act ethically too often failed, arguing that the issue isn't distinguishing what is right or wrong, but knowing how to act on your values despite opposing pressure. 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.

©2010 Mary C. Gentile (P)2018 Tantor

Social Activist Primer

This was required readimg for a "Professional Ethics" class. The book has very little to do with Ethics. It is more of a primer on how to disrupt organizations from within and how to be a social activist. The blurbs praising the book are mostly from academic institutions. I do not recall seeing any blurbs from business leaders. The author is partnered with the Aspen Institute which is better known for environmental and social activism than for a scholarly exploration of ethics. One of the supporters of the GVV program is an institute in the Peoples Republic of China.