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How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living |  | Author: Rushworth M. Kidder
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0688175902
Dewey Decimal Number: 174
EAN: 9780688175900
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Publication Date: December 1, 2003
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Product Description
Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for your children's education? Should you protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs forloggers? How do you handle questions such as these? We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the “right vs. wrong” choices. However, the “right vs. right” dilemmas, in which neither choice is clearly or widely accepted as wrong, many times present obstacles that call for value-based decisions, and that's where we often need help. Kidder -- the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics -- teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve any ethical dilemma, from the personal to the philosophical. Unique in its approach and full of illustrative anecdotes, How Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for arriving at sound conclusions when facing tough choices.
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 Good book for class June 28, 2009
F. Calo (New Jersey)
Didnt use this book much for class, but what i did read was easy to read and very well written.
 An Ethics Book That Won't Put You to Sleep June 1, 2009
J. M. Dean (Arlington, VA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was assigned this book for an Leadership Ethics class that is part of my current MBA program. This was actually one of 5 books we were assigned on the topics of leadership and ethics and this was by far my favorite. I find that the ethical dillemmas presented by the author are clear and help drive home his point. This book is not about choosing between RIGHT and WRONG. This book is about how as a leader and manager you may be forced to choose between RIGHT and RIGHT what kidder is calling the ethical dillemma. Kidder provides some techniques to work through ethical dillemas and talks about how to categorize them. The information in this book has stuck with me during the past year. I can't even remember the other books we were asked to read. May be a bit simplistic for some, but I think this is good general purpose leadership and ethics reading for the masses.
good book February 8, 2009
VTHalfPint
using this book in place of a traditional textbook for my business ethics course. Good and quick read. And speedy delivery.
 Simplistic, misleading January 30, 2009
Ethicist (Washington DC)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As someone who has read multiple books about ethics and leadership, I find this one pretty weak. The model presented for ethical decision making conflicts with certain established concepts in the field. It is overly simplistic and actually could lead people to make bad decisions.
Good Book - Needs to be Updated August 21, 2008
Ethics Prof (Philadelphia, PA United States)
Rushworth Kidder is a wonderful writer and thinker and has devoted 20+ years to promoting ethics and integrity. This book does a wonderful job presenting dilemmas, getting you to think about how you might handle them, and providing clear advice on how to evaluate such issues. That's all good. The problem is that it was written almost 15 years ago and it shows. While much of the information is timeless, many of the studies cited are from the early 90s. This would be fabulous if updated.
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