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American society has become increasingly polarized by single- and special-interest groups: the Greens, who demand environmental purity; admirers of Japan who want a national industrial policy; supply-side economists who want government to all but disappear. This collision of values has turned America into a battleground of either/or tradeoffs: the community vs. the individual, the environment vs. jobs, the rights of each ethnic group vs. the needs of the nation for unity. Whose values should prevail? Those of Libertarians? Communitarians? Egalitarians? Corporatists? The nation's leadership role in the post-communist world will be largely determined by how such conflicts in the political economy are resolved.
Increasingly, business executives find themselves drawn into these values wars, forced to make decisions in a hothouse climate in which there are countless and conflicting opinions about what is right and wrong. Business leaders find themselves caught in the values thicket when they attempt to formulate corporate policy on such issues as plant closings, executive compensation, corporate governance, and affirmative action. In The Executive's Compass, James O'Toole guides business leaders through this minefield of modern dilemmas. In the words of ARCO's CEO, Lod Cook, "O'Toole provides business leaders with a practical compass to help them navigate the turbulent waters of social change and political conflict."
O'Toole explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of contemporary business problems, tracing their origins to the ideas of such great thinkers as Aristotle, Adam Smith, J.S. Mill, and Jefferson. By going to the roots of modern issues, he is able to clarify the sources of political disagreement, and to suggest a practical course of action for corporate leaders who find themselves caught in the gridlock of democracy. He provides an innovative values compass--a tool he has honed for over forty years as a moderator of the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar--which has been successfully applied at FORTUNE 500 firms as an introduction to the values-based management for which the Aspen Institute is renowned. The compass helps executives to understand what is wrong (and right) with our democratic system, and what the role of business is in creating The Good Society.
For top executives, general managers, or anyone trying to make sense out of our rapidly changing world, The Executive's Compass helps managers deal more effectively with today's thorny issues.

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Library Journal Review

Faced today with wildly conflicting values and opinions with regard to the environment, jobs, affirmative action, and leadership, business executives must somehow formulate a coherent corporate policy. In this book, O'Toole, executive director of the Leadership Institute, attempts such a guide through the minefield of divergent social and political values by offering an understanding of the historical and philosophical issues simmering beneath modern business conflicts. O'Toole examines the four great themes--or dreams--of the ``good society'': liberty, equality, efficiency, and community. He discusses these themes in relation to the ideas of such thinkers as Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson. This thought-provoking work is recommended especially to university collections . -- Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib . , Jamaica, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

O'Toole has written 10 books, including the well-regarded Vanguard Management (1985). For the last 40 years he has been moderator at the Aspen Institute's executive seminar, a two-week retreat where executives consider such philosophical issues as the nature of humankind and the role of government and are forced to examine the role of values in the business (and personal) decision-making process. The "executive compass" is a tool O'Toole developed over his years at Aspen to provide a grounding for value-based decision making. Divided into four quadrants (liberty, equality, efficiency, and community), it maps the conflicting pull of values all decision makers must face. O'Toole relies on the so-called great books and other Western classics to define and illustrate values. ~--David Rouse

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About the Author: James O'Toole is Executive Director of the Leadership Institute. He holds the University Associates' Chair of Management at the USC Graduate School of Business. He has recently been Editor of New Management magazine and is author of ten books, including Vanguard Management, named by Business Week as one of the best business and economics books of 1985.