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This booklet begins by applying Norman Vincent Peale's theory of positive thinking to leadership. From this basis in Christian leadership, the booklet goes on to consider integrity from a Christian standpoint. Christian ethical leadership is then modeled on the Biblical figures of the servant, shepherd, and steward.

Dr. Worden carefully traces the historical shift through the centuries of Christianity through the Reformation on how profit-seeking and wealth are assumed to be related to the sin of greed. In short, making and accumulating money was thought by most major theologians for centuries to indicate the presence of greed, the love of more and more. The uncoupling of greed from earthly treasure began to take hold only with Aquinas amid novel pressures from Commercial Revolution.

The spiritual business leader who searches for personal and professional integration is the chief beneficiary of this audio guide, which can also be taken for a way to promulgate meagerly a new theory on the phenomenon of religion that stresses its uniqueness and distinctiveness. I begin with spirituality in order to find cleave distinctive nature off any reduction to ethics. In distinguishing spirituality from ethics, I look at religious experience of transcendence as a more suitable basis for spirituality.

This pamphlet evaluates Starbucks' corporate responsibility forays given the alternative need to fix managerial flaws down to the store level.

Beneath the gloss of Walmart's corporate social responsibility program lies the reality of how the stores are actually managed on a daily basis. This booklet asks whether corporate social responsibility can make up for bad customer treatment and faulty management. Do corporate-level programs geared to societal problems compensate in terms of the company's reputational capital and to the customers? The booklet also looks at whether managers and other employees of a large retail company can be so incompetent that the incompetence itself, apart from any related "attitude," is unethical, given societal expectations as to how businesses are normally operated and customers treated.