The Ultimate MBA: Meaningful Biblical Analogies for Business

By Gary Moreau

A guide to restoring integrity and ethics in business by following the examples set forth in the Bible demonstrates how to improve performance, achieve personal career fulfillment and finally how to do the right thing by making the right choices. Original.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080664947X
• ISBN13: 9780806649474
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Every CEO should read this

We have over-complicated business, I believe, because too many of us in business have not found fulfillment in our personal lives. - Gary L. Moreau This is the main point of this great short read by former CEO Gary L. Moreau. He points out in 12 chapters what I have been trying to put into words about business for years. We focus on market share, performance reports, and training initiatives that largely have no affect. Gary breaks business down to the basics. Business is just another part of life, and ultimately if you focus on providing a product that people want you will succeed. Its deeper than that though, so many times we focus on our competitors. What they are doing, what they are selling, ect. In the meantime we become stagnant and we lose the unique talents and benefits of our own companies. This book keeps getting better and better every time we I jump through it. Here are some more quotes: A business that relies on willing the customer into submission will ultimately fail. | Success, we've come to believe, is all about planning and control: Define the results you want to achieve and hold everyone's feet to the fire. Methodology becomes subordinate to process. Ethics get lost in the shadow of the bottom line | Frankly, I don't think God cares about business one way or the other. God cares only about the people who conduct it and about what they do with the success they realize.

Highly recommended

The Ultimate MBA: Meaningful Biblical Analogies For Business is a Christian guidebook to bringing integrity worthy of faithful believers and harmonizing it with the business need to turn a profit. Chapters address the importance of doing the right thing, leadership for the common good, applying one's experience, taking chances when needed, staying focused, and much more. The Ultimate MBA draws upon the wisdom of the Bible to illustrate the power of positive, compassionate, and upstanding policies, and describes in plain terms the importance of building lasting institutions upon values. Highly recommended for anyone seeking to balance seemingly opposing business and conscience goals.

The Ultimate MBA

Having worked in the business world for over 30 years and read a corresponding number of business books, I can honestly say that "The Ultimate MBA" was the first to get me to think this deeply. In the end, all of us are simply human beings and the number of times which we pause to reflect upon our moral obligations are limited in our fast-paced business world. Moreau finds a happy balance in conveying his practical experience and high degree of morality. I think this book should be read by all business people who want to leave behind more than just debits and credits.

Comments on The Ultimate MBA

The Ultimate MBA is clearly a timely book for the times. With corporate scandal and wide-spread greed abounding, this book brings some very sage advice laced with ethical/moral guidance. It is thought provoking and runs the gambit from the author's youthful experiences as a field laborer to top corporate executive as his remarkable career progressed. There is plenty to learn from the book: it should be required reading for all business degree candidates. As the author states, "[t]here need to be major reforms in how we run America's corporations and in the purposed they serve." The country needs to get on with it. And, this book is a very good start in leading the way to changes in the business minset.