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| Minding the Store: Great Literature About Business | 
 enlarge | Creators: Robert Coles, Albert Lafarge
Publisher: New Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 400860
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1595583556
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.8393553
EAN: 9781595583550
ASIN: 1595583556
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Moral Lives of Children.
"They don't know me anymore."—Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman
In a course he taught at Harvard Business School and elsewhere for many years, esteemed psychiatrist Robert Coles asked future money market managers and risk arbitrageurs to pause for a semester and reflect on the ethical dimensions of their chosen profession.
Now, for corporate professionals, armchair entrepreneurs, and other students of commerce, Coles has gathered a generous and stimulating collection of classic literary reflections on the ethical and spiritual predicaments of the business world.
From John Cheever's descriptions of a businessman who endures a moral crisis after stealing a neighbor's wallet and Gwendolyn Parker's "Uppity Buppie," in which an African American woman ascends to the upper ranks of corporate America, to Death of a Salesman and Tolstoy's "Master and Man," Minding the Store offers a richly human vision of the business world. With selections by, among others, John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, William Carlos Williams, Edith Wharton, and Vladimir Nabokov, Coles gives us the essential literary gems that illuminate the human predicaments of commerce and the moral quandaries of the marketplace.
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Minding the Store for the Unhappy October 24, 2008
Not at all what I anticipated after reading the WSJ review. I thought these would be insightful ideas for someone interested in the business mindset, instead it played up to minorities and their efforts to get ahead in the business world and the always failed efforts of the poor to get ahead. Why was Upton Sinclair not included ?
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