The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career.

Product DescriptionThe essential guide to standing up for your values at work. Protect your integrity by committing to The Conscience Code.A fast-track colleague is elbowing their way up the corporate ladder in your organization by faking sales reports. Your entrepreneur boss asks you to lie to would-be investors. The team leader is a serial sexual harasser. What should you do? Nobody prepared you for this part of professional life. You face a gut-wrenching choice: "go along to get along" or risk your job by speaking up for what you know is right.At the Wharton School, MBA students have shared all these stories, and many more, with award-winning Professor G. Richard Shell. They want to stay true to themselves but fear the consequences of speaking up--for their families, office relationships and, ultimately, their careers. They are not alone. Surveys show that more than 40% of employees report seeing ethical misconduct at work, and most fail to report it--killing office morale and allowing the wrong people to set the example.Shell createdThe Conscience Code to point to a better path: recognize that these conflicts are coming, learn to spot them, then follow a research-based, step-by-step approach for resolving them skillfully. By committing to the Code, you can replace regret with long-term career success as a leader of conscience.The Conscience Code:Solves a crucial problem faced by professionals everywhere: What should they do when they are asked to compromise their core values to achieve organizational goals?Teaches readers to recognize and overcome the five organizational forces that push people toward actions they later regret.Lays out a systematic, values-to-action process that people at all levels can follow to maintain their integrity while achieving true success in their lives and careers.Driven by dramatic, real-world examples from Shell's classroom, today's headlines, and classic cases of corporate wrongdoing,The Conscience Code shows how to create value-based workplaces where everyone can thrive.Review"This powerful and practical book brings the science of persuasion to the problem of doing the right thing, showing leaders at every level how to stand up for their deepest beliefs." -- Daniel H. Pink, Bestselling author ofWHEN,DRIVE, andTO SELL IS HUMAN"Leading in the twenty-first century without a conscience is like trying to fly a plane without wings. The Conscience Code shows you how to turn your beliefs into action and take flight."  -- Yancey Strickler, Cofounder and Former CEO of Kickstarter, Founder of the Bento Society, and Author ofThis Could Be Our Future"Shell demonstrates that good ethics is not only good business but is also the foundation for personal and professional success. His real-world examples and research-based observations make this book a keeper for every leader." -- F. William McNabb, Former Chairman and CEO of Vanguard"Engaging, clear, and practical--The Conscience Code is an outstanding guide to leading and living responsibly." -- Joseph L. Badaracco, John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School"A must-read in today's turbulent times. Indeed, the high road is the only road. Richard Shell will help you get there and stay there." -- Douglas R. Conant, Founder of ConantLeadership, Former Chairman of Avon Products, and Former CEO of Campbell Soup Company"The Conscience Code should be required reading for every global firm seeking to empower its workforce to be a force for good." -- Tim Erblich, CEO of Ethisphere Institute and Former President of the New York Stock Exchange Governance Services"An inspiring business book" that provides "a blueprint for ethical behavior in a frequently unethical world." --Kirkus ReviewsAbout the AuthorG. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  His books on personal char