Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul

By Clinton W. McLemore

Book Overview

Success, as it is currently defined, usually depends on winning--beating the competition--which often places incredible pressures on business professionals. With engaging writing and a lack of jargon, this book navigates executives, managers, and supervisors through the ethical decisions they must make every day. Street-Smart Ethics is divided into three sections: a primer on ethics, a collection of Proverbs-based guidelines for staying out of trouble, and a self-test that contains true-false questions and ethical brainteasers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664226280
• ISBN13: 9780664226282
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Offering Proverbs-based guidelines

Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding In Business Without Selling Your Soul is a meaningful guide written by psychologist and corporate consultant Clinton W. McLemore especially for those Christians seeking to prosper in the business world, but not at the expense and pain of others. Offering Proverbs-based guidelines to stay on an honorable path, true-false self-test questions, ethical brainteasers, a solid primer of professional principles for dealing well and fairly with others, Street-Smart Ethics is a practical, balanced, useful, Christian-based ethics instructional guide for doing business in the world.

Time-Tested Ethics Adeptly Applied to Real-World Business

Clinton McLemore's application of universally true ethical guidelines to real-world, practical business situations in this book is both an excellent guideline for everyday professional situations as well as a source of hope for the ailing ethical condition of today's corporate world.This book, besides being an excellent guide for executives, details many thought-provoking ethical scenarios worthy of consideration even by employees or one-two person small businesses.

Excellent book!

Street-Smart Ethics combines ancient wisdom from the Book of Proverbs with modern thought from everyday life to shed light on the ethical conundrums of contemporary business practices. Clearly organized and free from technical jargon, Clinton McLemore gives very practical guidance to prevent the business disasters that plague our society.

Finally!

Street-Smart Ethics is a practical guide to the quagmire of situations that professionals encounter on a regular basis. Written in a common-sense style, filled with pertinent examples, and interesting antidotes, the book should be compulsory reading for anyone working in contemporary business.

Update of a Classic

This is an update of a classic. Although advertised as a book about business ethics, it can be easily applied to every day non-business life. The author's 20 years in the business world gives him insight into the typical ethical dilemmas in this area and he uses them as examples. His 10 years of teaching shows in the clear explanations and systematic treatment of the subject. There are frequent examples for thought and probing questions to apply to yourself.