Author: Robert L. Turknett
Publisher: Intercultural Press
Keywords: decent, work, life, character, lead, people, company
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-12-29
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0891062068
ISBN-13: 9780891062066

Inspiring people who lead with integrity move things forward, garner commitment from others, and are willing to ask the tough questions when necessary. These are the real leaders who generate and sustain cultures of character in organizations. DECENT PEOPLE, DECENT COMPANY puts the power to develop the core qualities of leadership character into the hands of anyone dedicated to bringing integrity, respect, and personal responsibility back to the workplace--regardless of his or her place in the organization. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience working with hundreds of CEOs, managers,

Author: Norman S. Care
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: people, decent
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-09-26
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0742507092
ISBN-13: 9780742507098

In this book Norman S. Care addresses the question of what it is to be a good or decent person. His discussion is centered on motivation issues, rather than on the content of moral principles or the imperatives of ethical theory. He argues that decent people are constrained by moral-emotional nature to take certain things seriously, and this is part of what it means to have a moral life. The background of the discussion is the world around us. "The world is no extension of the affluence that shields a few of us; it is instead a sea of pain and despair, with only small and sometimes temporary i

Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: society, decent
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0674194365
ISBN-13: 9780674194366

Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another. What political philosophy needs urgently is a way that will permit us to live together without humiliation and with dignity. Most of the philosophical attention nowadays is drawn to the ideal of the just society based on the right balance between freedom and equality. The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize. The decent society is an

Author: Patricia Grasso
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: gentleman, decent
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2010-06-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0759296529
ISBN-13: 9780759296527

Sabrina Savage has been raised to be a perfect lady. When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, she is shocked and upset and at his funeral, she meets a stranger, Adam St. Aubyn, Marquess of Stonehurst, who helps her mourn and promises to help her uncover the truth about his untimely death. She can barely admit it to herself, though, how much a man she has never met before can stir her heart and her passions, can make her feel like she has known him all her life, can make her feel as if he is her savior. Then, at the reading of her father’s will, she learns that she has been pl

Author: Thomas Forrester Lord
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: promise, housing, decent
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1976-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0870734911
ISBN-13: 9780870734915

Author: Philip Kivett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: intervals, decent, failures, intelligence
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-05-23
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 1420893548
ISBN-13: 9781420893540

Intelligence Failures and Decent Intervals provides a look at the truth behind military and diplomatic blunders to which "intelligence failure labels" have been attached that are intended to hide leadership failures responsible for the blunders. From the 1950 Chinese Communist intervention in the Korean War, to the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the so-called surprise attack that began the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, the book exposes instance after instance in which this egregious practice has occurred. The detriment thus reaped by the practice inures to the erosion of the Intel

Author: Frederick Allen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: vigilantes, montana, lynching, orderly, decent
Number of Pages: 421
Published: 2004-11
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0806136375
ISBN-13: 9780806136370

The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers. Combing through original sources, including eye-witness accounts never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes were justified in their early actions, as they fought violent crime in a remote corner beyond the reach of government. But Allen has uncovered evidence that the vigilantes refused to disband a