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For additional reading on the subject of finding a moral compass, see these titles:
Finding Your Moral Compass
By Rabbi Simcha Feuerman, Chaya Feuerman
Available at Lulu.com Hardback,322 pages ISBN 0557500141
Relationships, Par- enting and Personal Growth from a Spiri- tual Perspective.
The Quest for a Moral Compass
By Kenan Malik, Melville House Available from Amazon
Ebook, 400 pages
ISBN 1612194044
The story of the global search for moral truths. In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has de- veloped over three millennia, from Ho- mer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great philosophers, and breathes life into their ideas, while also challenging many of our
most cherished moral beliefs.
Engaging and provocative, The Quest
for a Moral Compass confronts some of humanity’s deepest questions. Where do values come from? Is God necessary for moral guidance? Are there absolute moral truths?
It also brings morality down to earth, showing how, throughout history, social needs and political desires have shaped moral thinking.
It is a history of the world told through the history of moral thought, and a histo- ry of moral thought that casts new light on global history.
Moral Compass
By Craig Nakken, Hazelden Available from Amazon Book, 160 pages
ISBN 1616494069
For those of us in recovery, finding our moral and spiritual footing can be a
struggle.
The pursuit of
drugs and alcohol has long driven our choic- es and actions, leaving the line between right and wrong blurred in the wake of addiction. In Finding Your Moral Compass, Craig Nak-
ken, author of the best-selling book The Addictive Personality, gives readers in recovery the model and tools needed to make life decisions in the pursuit of good.
He offers 41 universally accepted prin- ciples, paired as positive and negative counterparts that guide behavior.
He then inspires us with one fun- damental challenge: To take respon- sibility for being a force for good by applying these principles to our daily lives. He encourages us to show empa- thy, be of service to others, and make the choice to stop being an agent of harm.
When Nakken, a former addict, be- came clean and sober, he faced the “evil” inside of himself. It was then that he found his moral compass and made the decision to take responsibility for his actions using the Twelve Steps as his guide.
He has taught hundreds in recovery to live by the principles of good, one day at a time. About the author Craig Nakken is the author of several Hazelden titles, including the perennial bestseller The Addictive Personality.
He is a popular public speaker and a highly respected private practice counsel- or, with years of working in the frontlines in a number of treatment facilities.
The Moral Compass
By Lindsay J. Thompson, Information Age Publishing
Available from Amazon
Paperback, 178 pages
ISBN 1607520567
The Moral Compass presents a model
of morality as a guide to values-based leadership. In a free, pluralist society, di- verse stakeholders with competing moral claims present serious challenges to the stra- tegic momentum of business, government, NGOs, and community organizations. Leaders need to know how to manage
these challenges effectively.
The Moral Compass is their guide. As
recent history has repeatedly demonstrat- ed, leaders who avoid, impose or gloss over the centrality of values in realizing a strategic vision can produce severely flawed outcomes such as loss of confi- dence, corruption and market failure.
The Moral Compass provides leaders with effective tools to manage this complex, strategic environment by engaging directly with stakeholders to clarify and articulate normative values without privileging or diminishing specific moral traditions.
The Moral Compass is rich blend of scholarship, practical wisdom, and usable tools. It is a readable, accessible book that draws from a range of scholarship in humanities, business, science, and social sciences to explain the dynam- ics of human morality. Academically oriented readers will find intellectually challenging resources and references. Pragmatic readers will be able to use this knowledge to cultivate a robust personal moral compass as a leadership tool for building ethical teams, practice groups, and organizational cultures, for framing and managing moral dilemmas, and for conducting an ethical discernment and decisionmaking process. Ethics in busi-
ness and leadership studies is emerging as a rich field for scholarship. As an active business faculty member in the field, Dr .Thompson is familiar with the published literature of colleagues in the Society for Business Ethics, the International Society for Business Ethics and Economics, the Academy of Management and the Amer- ican Philosophical Association.
As a blend of theory and practice, The Moral Compass is unique among business ethics books in providing a framework for including and managing the volatility of ethical issues arising from tensions between traditional religious and modern secular morality. Rather than avoid these conflicts, the book anchors their source in the inher- ent complexity of human neurochemistry, individuation, and socialization as a context for moral meaning and conscience.
The book includes numerous exercises in reflection, dialogue, and discernment that enable readers to find common mor- al ground with people from divergent wisdom traditions. The book synthesizes a wide range of knowledge in a presenting practical model for moral discernment, dialogue, and decisionmaking.
Rediscovering Values
By Jim Wallis, Howard Books Availabe from Google Play Ebook, 272 pages
ISBN 1439183171
When we start with the wrong ques- tion, no matter how good an answer we get, it won’t give us the results we want.
Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, “When will this economic crisis be over?” Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is “How will this crisis change us?” The worst thing we can
do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation.
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