Giving Voice to Values, Mary C. Gentile
Giving Voice to Values, Mary C. Gentile
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Giving Voice to Values
How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right

Author: Mary C. Gentile

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/11/2018

Synopsis

How can you effectively stand up for your values when pressured by your boss, customers, or shareholders to do the opposite? Drawing on actual business experiences as well as on social science research, Babson College business educator and consultant Mary Gentile challenges the assumptions about business ethics at companies and business schools. She gives business leaders, managers, and students the tools not just to recognize what is right, but also to ensure that the right things happen. The book is inspired by a program Gentile launched at the Aspen Institute with Yale School of Management, and now housed at Babson College, with pilot programs in over one hundred schools and organizations, including INSEAD and MIT Sloan School of Management.

She explains why past attempts at preparing business leaders to act ethically too often failed, arguing that the issue isn’t distinguishing what is right or wrong, but knowing how to act on your values despite opposing pressure. Through research-based advice, practical exercises, and scripts for handling a wide range of ethical dilemmas, Gentile empowers business leaders with the skills to voice and act on their values, and align their professional path with their principles.

About Mary C. Gentile

Mary C. Gentile is director of the Giving Voice to Values curriculum and senior research scholar at Babson College. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine, and Risk Management, and she has written several books on ethics and diversity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on October 20, 2020

Great points, but the author drones on.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on November 06, 2018

"Giving Voice to Values" is not just a book but an in depth analysis and consideration of what makes each of us consider what is the "right thing to do". This is a book for every single one of us, any level of the organisation and any type of organisation. It provides a template for every single one......more

Goodreads review by Gurpreet on April 18, 2025

I didn't feel like I was reading a book. It took me on the spiritual journey of life. It was recommended as a part of one of the subjects I have studied at the University and it totally taught me how resilience never goes out of fashion. While dealing with personal setbacks in Canada I have realized......more

Goodreads review by Maria on January 06, 2019

Gentile works as professor and business consultant. She has development an action based system to make it easier for employees and managers to speak up for their values and support ethical behavior. Why I started this book: I'm blasting my way thru the audio books on my professional reading list. Why......more

Goodreads review by Neil on December 07, 2023

Listened to this as an audiobook, and probably would've been better in print. Agree with the overall point that Mary C. Gentile is making and she does provide some helpful strategies. Even though this is a short book (under eight hours in audio format) it is probably a book in written form that I wo......more

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