Defining Moments, Joseph L. Badaracco
Defining Moments, Joseph L. Badaracco
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Defining Moments
When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right

Author: Joseph L. Badaracco

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/01/2016


Synopsis

How do you lead the launch of a product you know will be extremely controversial?
What should you do if a single parent on your staff is falling behind in his or her work?
How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender?
This is a book about work choices and life choices, and the critical points, or defining moments, at which the two become one. A refreshing antidote to traditional feel-good, inspirational business ethics, it examines the right-versus-right conflicts that every business manager faces and presents an unorthodox yet practical way for you to think about and resolve them.
When making hard professional decisions, managers often use personal values as a touchstone. Badaracco asserts, however, that resolving such dilemmas is not as simple as the "do the right thing" school of ethics would have you believe. Defining Moments reveals an alternative approach that will help you tackle the more complex and troubling question of what to do when doing the right thing requires doing something else wrong, or leaving another right thing undone.
Drawing on philosophy, literature, and three case studies that reveal the increasing complexity today's managers face as their careers advance, Defining Moments provides tangible examples, actionable steps, and a flexible framework that you can use to make the choices that will shape not only your career, but your character.
Compelling and absent of ethical jargon, this book gets to the core of what makes being a manager so difficult. For new and seasoned managers alike, Defining Moments explores what it means, and whether it's even possible, to be a successful manager and simultaneously a thoughtful, responsible human being.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leonardo on June 29, 2021

The author shares an important view that ethical issues can only be decided in the context of each company and situation but provides an effective conceptual framework, using three case studies, and suggesting three sources of information and supports for judgment: (1) The company’s mission/values s......more

Goodreads review by Charley Girl on January 20, 2019

This isn't your typical management book in which it gives you a list of characteristics of a good manager and a list of actions to perform to become a good manager. It talks about philosophy and beliefs. Why the phrase, "just do what is right" a lot of times isn't possible because all the choices you......more

Goodreads review by Sahib on March 11, 2016

The first few chaps were really gripping but the book gets repetitive. Overall, nice read!......more

Goodreads review by Whitney on October 24, 2022

Read this for my Purpose & Ethics class and I really enjoyed it. Walks you through tough decisions and scenarios and approaches and outcomes. Very helpful read for those in manager position.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on July 08, 2019

The toughest moral quandaries are often not right versus wrong, evil versus good. If my ethically right solution is at odds with yours, then we have a right versus right dilemma. Author Joseph Badaracco expertly defines the problem and presents seemingly intractable cases. Peeling back the layers, B......more