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Creating value : why ethical leadership is the future -- Shades of grey : understanding ethics -- Purpose and value: what makes an ethical leader? -- Turning ethical principles into value -- The ethical value chain -- The source of our prosperity: employees -- Value and trust : consumers -- Virtue and wealth: community -- Value is what you get : shareholders -- Making ethical decisions -- If not now, when? -- Appendix 1 Ethical dilemmas for practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Many things can be said about the 2011 revolution in Egypt. And actually, many things have been said about it, especially by the media. The course of the news reports differed significantly from paper to paper. This study compares four US-newspapers, namely 'The Wall Street Journal', 'The New York Times', 'The Washington Times', and the 'San Francisco Chronicle' with regard to their reports on the events in Egypt from January 26 until February 12, 2011. This study provides the reader with important information about these specific newspapers, and the events that happened during the so called 'Lotus Revolution'. Further, it provides a thorough analysis about the information that have been selected by the newspapers, the words used for the reporting and the choice of interview partners. However, the study does not only offer a comparison between the different news stories that were published in the four newspapers, but also takes into account letters to the editor and editorials for these texts are important concerning the whole style and format of a newspaper. It helps the reader to form an opinion about the objectivity of reporting in US print media, and triggers him or her to think about the factors that might influence objective reporting and the reasons for it. The study is suitable for everyone who is interested in the 2011 revolution in Egypt, in the political reporting and media bias in the United States, and in the way this bias can be transported through different text types in print media.

Vor der spitzen Feder des Stern-Kolumnisten Holger Witzel ist nichts und niemand sicher. Egal ob er das Märchen von der "Ostalgie" als westdeutschen Marketingtrick enttarnt oder über die kokette Sehnsucht vieler Schwaben herzieht, echte Ostberliner zu werden – keiner schreibt lustiger über die ewigen deutsch-deutschen Missverständnisse, und keiner bringt sie gekonnter auf den Punkt. Die Fakten und Beobachtungen, mit denen der bekennende Ossi dabei argumentiert, schmerzen besonders, weil sie trotz aller Überspitzung im Kern sehr wahr sind. Vor allem aber machen sie richtig Spaß ...

"For the past three thousand years people have been thinking about the problems of management. This book shows how thinking about management has evolved and changed. It shows how changing social, political and technological forces have challenged people to think about management in new ways, and how management thinkers have responded. Sometimes their responses missed the mark and occasionally, great ideas about management failed to be picked up and were lost along the way. Sometimes, truly original and creative, even world-changing ideas appeared. Following key currents in management thought from the origins of civilisation to the present day, the book begins in the ancient world, when people were wrestling with the problems of organization and leadership. It continues through the Middle Ages, east and west, as people pondered on how to manage risk and think strategically, and on the role of business in society. It shows how the Industrial Revolution led to the emergence of scientific management, and how political and social events of the twentieth century shaped management thinking right up to the present day. From the pyramids to Facebook, from military strategy to managing for sustainability, A History of Management Thought tells the fascinating story of how management thinking has changed, shifted, evolved and developed down through the centuries. Students taking classes in the history of management thought will find this text to be the perfect accompaniment to their studies and will be a captivating read for anyone else"--