Did you build that?
From a book within a book:
“He said that architecture was truly the greatest of the arts, because it was anonymous, as all greatness. …
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Business Ethics
Do cry for me, Argentina
Troubles mounting in Argentina due to a government plagued by corruption scandals and heavy-handed, dysfunctional economic intervention and controls.
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The best short business ethics book …
… on the market is Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux’s The Ethics of Business: A Concise Introduction, published late in 2011. I read the book in manuscript, happily provided a blurb, and used it as a textbook in my business ethics course this summer, so count me a satisfied customer. The book’s strengths: 1. Its
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Loyola MBA business ethics course
This summer I will be teaching an MBA business ethics course at Loyola’s beautiful downtown Chicago Water Tower location. My (updated) syllabus and schedule are available here at my Courses page. Bragging rights for Loyola: Its business ethics program ranked tops by BusinessWeek.
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More on Brazil
Following up on my Fórum da Libertade experience, here is a feature in Zero Hora newspaper, with mini-interviews and comments from me, Tom Palmer, Eduardo Marty, and several others. While in Brazil I also interviewed two entrepreneurs for upcoming issues of Kaizen and participated in a conference on Shirley Robin Letwin’s On the History of
Creative geniuses as selfish — Rachmaninoff version
The great Rachmaninoff on what the creator needs and what this implies for others: “A creator is a very limited person. Always he revolves around his own axis. There is nothing for him but his own creative work. I agree that the wife has to forget herself, her own personality. She must take upon herself
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Full interview with New Orleans entrepreneur Jay Lapeyre
Entrepreneurial Resilience in New Orleans My full interview with Jay Lapeyre is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s site. Lapeyre is the CEO of The Laitram Corporation. I met with him in New Orleans to discuss natural disasters and corrupt politics, leadership, and the state of American manufacturing in our global economy.
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Reid Hoffman, philosopher-turned-Linked-In founder
From Wired magazine’s profile of Reid Hoffman. I like this section where Hoffman says that each one of us needs to “think about our lives as entrepreneurs, using this playbook as a way five years from now to be in more control of my life, create more value in myself and the world around me,
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