The Book of Questions: Business, Politics, and Ethics (Paperback)

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Forget Democrat vs. Republican or capitalist vs. socialist. Like the models used in business or law school, these 300 primary and follow-up questions focus on commerce and politics as a way to probe the more important conflict between ideals and reality--and sound your own morals. 106,000 copies in print.

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FACE THE QUESTIONS

Ask yourself. Ask your family. Ask your colleagues. Ask your best friend, or a stranger. THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS: BUSINESS, POLITICS, AND ETHICS enables you to ask those things that seem so easy to answer-until you put yourself in the middle: dilemmas of freedom, justice, power, honesty, money, principles, and trust.

Provoke discussion, stimulate healthy arguments, fuel those all-too-rare talks that go deep into the night-and see if you're the same person you were ten years ago.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 4, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156305034X
• ISBN-13: 978-1563050343
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #214,144 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and non-judgmental, January 10, 2005

By	H. Grove "owling6683" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The original "Book of Questions" made a good conversation-starter and, in my opinion, inspirational tool for writing or journaling. "The Book of Questions: Love and Sex" is better for helping you to see your own relationship values and how they may be helping and harming you and your loved one, and it can also be used to help open up communication in a relationship if approached carefully. "The Book of Questions: Business, Politics and Ethics," on the other hand, is perhaps best for pushing you to explore your own moral values and how well you're living up to them.

What's most impressive about this is that very few of the questions seem to imply a "right" answer or try to push some sort of specific realization, and even those that do sort of come across that way don't have to be read in that way. Dr. Stock specifically says that he doesn't want to push an agenda--he merely wants to spur people to think more carefully about what it is they're doing and why.

The questions run the gamut from economic programs to health care, international policy to business. There are questions about hiring and firing employees, stealing from or betraying employers, tradeoffs in public programs and government spending, and so on. Many of the questions seem particularly relevant to today's political situations. While I wasn't as fond of the tradeoff questions in the "Love and Sex" book, I think that in this one they come across much better. Somehow they end up feeling less arbitrary and more like realistic quandaries.

Dr. Stock tries not to give us easy questions with easy answers, instead forcing us to truly think about the hard issues.

5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL LITTLE THOGHT PROVOKING BOOK, September 26, 2007

By	D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This little book is great on so many levels. It consists of, as the title would indicate, of questions concerning Business, Politics and Ethics. There are a total of 223 questions. The book is completely and absolutely nonjudgemental, as it gives no answers to the questions nor does it supply any opinions. This job is left up to you! The questions are well written and very plane it that they are, at first glance simple. Far from it. When you read one of the questions here, you will have almost an instant "gut" reaction, or instant answer, but, after giving it some thought, you will find you self thinking, "hey, this is not as easy as I thought." This is a wonderful book for group discussions, but beware, some of the questions could be discussed for days and days, answers would change and opinions swayed...it is just that type of book. I love to brouse through it, read a question, and then just think, asking myself questions about the questions asked. The issues addressed here are ones we face on a daily basis in our society and are not particularly addressed only to business and politics. Highly recommend this one!

4.0 out of 5 stars Get Thinking, January 18, 2007

By	R. Hurst "MSLM Ron" (So Cal USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Far too many of us wait until faced with an ethical dilemma before figuring out what our personal ethical stand is. This book, used correctly, provides the opportunity to flex your brain muscle and reflect on your ethical perspective before it becomes necessary.

I use it to challenge my site management team every morning with great effect.

The only criticism I would have is that some questions while provacative are not for the meek.

Great job Mr Stock