The Morally Intelligent Organization

This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. Available in print and digital formats. How to build a morally intelligent organization: Hiring honorable people is just the beginning. The culture of a morally intelligent organization is infused with worthwhile values, and its members consistently act in ways aligned with those values. Its major characteristic is that it is populated with morally intelligent people. But moral leaders know their job goes beyond simply hiring others who act.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. Available in print and digital formats. How to build a morally intelligent organization: Hiring honorable people is just the beginning. The culture of a morally intelligent organization is infused with worthwhile values, and its members consistently act in ways aligned with those values. Its major characteristic is that it is populated with morally intelligent people. But moral leaders know their job goes beyond simply hiring others who act in a certain way, just as a morally intelligent organization is more than the sum of its members.

This Element is an excerpt from Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success (9780132349864) by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel. Available in print and digital formats. The unique challenges of morality in small business: building the small company that lives by the principles of integrity, responsibility, compassion, and forgiveness. Although the core principles of morality are the same, the moral challenges that dominate an organization are often size-dependent. For one thing, the small company's leader lives in a fishbowl-everyone can see everything they do. Moral.

Understand the surprisingly robust links between morality and business success – and learn how to improve both! Learn how to succeed at the highest levels, without sacrificing the principles that make life worth living… discover why doing what’s right is the surest way to optimize and sustain business value… understand the powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business success… successfully promote “moral intelligence” throughout your organization! From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Jon M. Huntsman, James F. Parker, Doug Lennick, and Fred Kiel

​The last two decades increasingly have challenged the field of management by confronting it with rapidly growing levels of dynamism, inter-connectedness, and complexity. Systems-based management approaches, their promise already proven, offer great potentials for influencing and coping with this development. This collection of essays offers ideas and exemplary case studies from experts in systemic management, organiza-tional cybernetics, and system dynamics for meeting the challenges in so-cio-economic systems. This book was compiled to honor the academic achievement of Markus Schwaninger, a leading protagonist in developing the field of systemic management and organizational cybernetics. His stature in the field is demonstrated in the forewords by Raul Espejo and John Sterman. The efforts of 18 researchers and practitioners, all closely related to Markus Schwaninger, offer conceptual and empirical approaches that will allow managers and advanced students of the management profession to analyze, understand, and design intelligent organizations. The book weaves its content from both theory and practice and offers hints for improving a variety of organizations, both private and public, profit and non-profit, and large and small.​

Through a combination of research, and original thought leadership, the authors demonstrate how the best performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. These individuals exhibit moral intelligence: a strong moral compass and the ability to follow it. Lennick and Kiel reveal how dozens of companies benefit from the moral intelligence of their leaders, help build specific moral competencies leaders need: integrity, responsibility, compassion, forgiveness, and more. This book also includes the new Moral and Emotional Competency Inventory (MECI): an indispensable metric to assess moral intelligence. Leaders with strong moral intelligence can build the trust and commitment that are the foundation of truly great businesses. Be one of those leaders, lead one of those companies, with Moral Intelligence.

A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be "for" or "against" his interpretations, they can hardly be well acquainted with them, for his work has been largely out of print for years. With this re-publication of Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many new generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces--on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. This exhilarating work has much to teach readers who may have been encouraged to adopt simpler systems of meaning, or were taught to exchange the ideals of reason and individuality for those of enthusiasm and the false romance of group identity. Trilling's remarkable essays show a critic who was philosophically motivated and textually responsible, alive to history but not in thrall to it, exercised by art but not worshipful of it, consecrated to ideas but suspicious of theory.