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Book: Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know (101 Series) :: Zig Ziglar|Books :: Book
Date: Wednesday, 07 January, 2009 :: 14:17
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Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know (101 Series)
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Bestselling author and expert on leadership John C. Maxwell shares the only rule that matters--in business and in life. How does a person judge what is ethical? Sometimes it?s clear. In the past year or two, ethical lapses in corporate America have been well documented. But is it always easy to see where the line is in life? What?s the standard? And can it work in all situations? Maxwell thinks it can. In ETHICS 101, he shows how people can live with integrity by using the Golden Rule as their standard--regardless of religion, culture, or circumstances. Along the way, he delves into the desires of the human heart, reveals the five most common pitfalls that throw people off the ethical track, and teaches how to develop the Midas touch when it comes to personal integrity.
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Summary: Ethics - You can't lead without it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 2008-09-07 - 
Comment: So you think you want to be a leader? Well what are the core essentials of leadership? If ethical behavior is not one of your answers then guess what a leader you will never be.
Knowing right from wrong and applying it in one's life is essential and becomes crucial if one aspires to be leadership. You cannot be at peace in your life, nor a success in life if you don't know what it means to be ethical. Being an ethical person is not something that you switch on and off like a light switch, when it suits your needs.
Maxwell in this book provides the primer to those starting on their leadership journey about the importance of ethics. For those who have drifted off course, Maxwell will help you set your course and life on the path that we all should follow.
Summary: sweet & simple but hard to achieve
Date: 2008-08-29 -
Comment: This little book reminds the reader of what he/she has hopefully learned before but spends a lifetime trying to apply. The negative reviewer who is an academic finds this book disdainful because it offers "nothing" for he thinks the real dilemna of ethics seems to belong to to the halls of academia for only within those confines can one truly understand the ancients. Maxwell is delightful because of this lack of intellectual snobishness.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Nice topic, but could be made better
Date: 2008-03-01 - 
Comment: If you remove the boring real life stories examples, add some practical 'How Tos' and let the sequence of ideas be more related to each other, you would have a readable book on 'Ethics 101'.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Amazingly Simple and Elegant View of Ethics!
Date: 2007-05-31 -
Comment: This book is fabulous! I used it for an Ethics book club class and virtually all the participants gave it high marks for readability and clear ideas. It's a little book with big ideas to live by.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Ethics 001: The Search For More Money
Date: 2007-03-21 -
Comment: The Reverend John C. Maxwell is a former Wesleyan Methodist minister, former pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree. Why this information is not manifest on his website remains a mystery. Megachurches are big business, indeed, and though Maxwell left Skyline with massive debt, he has some useful, though unoriginal, information in his "101" series that is borne out of his years as senior pastor of Skyline. Surely this information would not discourage sales (?).
Having taught philosophy and business ethics for many years at various universities, I am always looking for good assigned reading that challenges students to think outside the box of my lectures, and to give serious consideration to matters of ethics and morals in both their personal lives, and how their lives extend to others in all contexts. Since I also was associated with the Wesleyan church that Maxwell pastured years ago, when I saw this title featured, I wanted to see if his book would add to my students' knowledge base and life application. Unfortunately, what I found was either a shallow presentation of familiar themes he used to preach on Sunday morning, or the reworking of material that has already been out there in one form or another. In short, "Ethics 101" is really Ethics 001, that provides the reader with little foundation in ethics and morals. Dr. Maxwell is not an academic (he has a ministry doctorate), nor does he take any academic approach in his book. In fact, he thinks philosophy has "confused' ethics when, in fact, because Maxwell has no philosophical background, he brings little to the debate. Unfortunately, Maxwell's book confuses Ethics. How does he know that philosophy confuses a particular issue when he does not know philosophy? In truth, the history of Western Civilization, has produced libraries of clear information concerning ethics and morals, but you won't find (as you cannot find) any of that here. Ethics goes far beyond the Golden Rule model, reaching back to Plato (The Republic, etc.) and Aristotle ("The Politics"; "Ethics"), down to Cicero (45 BC) who wrote one of the best, and clearest, works on ethics titled, "Duties." Most of my lectures consist of footnotes to Plato, then Aristotle, and then demonstrates how those principles were worked out by the Romans in Cicero and others. There is no doubt that both Jesus and Paul had access to these three writers, and it is impossible to read Jesus and not see the influence of Cicero. I am personally put off that Maxwell has distain for philosophy, given that the Golden Rule is prima facie, philosophy, and is a repeated maxim from earlier philosophers. The honest reality is that philosophy is everywhere and is embodied in every idea good or bad, business advertisement, magazine, television and feature film, and even in Maxwell's sermons and the goofy (and gratituously violent) "Left Behind" book series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. I can skim through any of Maxwell's books and remember when much of the material was, at one time or another, a Sunday sermon in his Wesleyan church. Now Maxwell is hailed as a "leadership" guru, writing books and speaking about "leadership." While this may fly on the motivational circuit, it brings little, if any thing, of value to the intellectual debate. Sadly, too many of these kinds of books are written at the popular level, simply to make money, rather than provide a solid, educational understanding for the reader.
If you are serious about wanting to learn about the historical development of ethics, read Plato's "Republic", Aristotle's "Ethics", "Duties" of Cicero (Loeb series; don't overlook his classic book "On Friendship" and "Old Age"), Plutarch's "Moralia" (especially vol. 4 of the Loeb series; Plutarch was a Greek who lived in Rome and was a contemporary with Jesus). In my view, it is so much easier to understand the Scriptures when they have been properly set in their historical context.
For a deeper understanding of ethical theories (egoism, utilitarianism, existentialism, Marxism, capitalism, et al.) which Maxwell never bothers to mention (because I don't think he knows them), read Shaw and Berry: "Moral Issues in Business". If you must purchase Maxwell's book, buy it used. Note the large number "used". I give "Ethics 101" a whole single Star as one's review cannot be posted without at least one star. Judge for yourself, but I beg you to read Cicero and Plutarch once in your life if you really want a foundation in ethics.
As an aside, one of the finest books on leadership ever written that also encompasses ethics, is "The Churchill Factors" by Larry Kryske. Kryske is an internationally recognized historian and speaker on Winston Churchill, and in this particular volume, Kryske applies the life and words of Churchill to leadership in business and ethics. Stephen Gruber, Ph.D.
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