(Part 2) Best business ethics books according to redditors

A few books on personal relations don't hurt either. My younger self needed to stand up for herself more, and in better ways.

Edit: Several people are asking for recommendations. These are some I have found extremely helpful:

I have a few I really recommend:

Thanks for the Feedback is one of the best I have read that incorporates info I have heard from other books all in one place with practical examples. If I could give a copy of this book to every person on earth I would. (The same people wrote a book called Difficult Conversations, but I have yet to read that.)

Edit to add Consious Business. This is the one I meant to add as the second recommendation; it is mostly about working with others in business but really applies to working with anyone in all relationships.

Emotional Intelligence is another I recommend, giving guidance on how to understand emotions. (Read this, then go re-watch Inside Out.)

10% Happier is an exploration into meditation as a non-spiritual thing. See Dan's video.

59 Seconds is about little things we can do to make our lives better (all science study based).

And Stumbling on Happiness is about understanding our own motivations better (also research study based).

Some of these books are clearly about "self help" but understanding ourselves is a key to understanding our interactions with others. And I try to only recommend books that are based in science and research.

I also like Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, Incognito by David Eagleman, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, How Children Succeed by Paul Tough, The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam, Nudge by Richard Thaler, and Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnerman. Oh, and anything by Malcom Gladwell; I may not always agree with him, but he is thought provoking and well researched. (I have an Audible account and have found that a good way to get through books while doing other things like exercise, long car trips, or cleaning the house.)

More Adds; Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, Nurture Shock by Po Bronson, My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel, Far From The Tree by Andrew Solomon, The Charisma Myth by Olivia Cabane, How We Learn by Benedict Carey, and I generally like anything by the Freakanomics guys.

Edit: And thank you kind stranger for the gold!

If anyone would like to make recommendations to me based on the above list, please do so! I always have a growing reading queue :-)

Most current information you are going to want to read online. There is no substitute for that. The books I'm currently reading through are:

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook 2nd Ed

The Tangled Web

Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide

Webbots, Spiders and Screen Scrapers

NoStarchPress fanboy all the way :)

Keep in mind, though, that the technical requirements are only half of being employable. You also need to be a good employee, who can work with the client and keep them satisfied. For those, I recommend:

True Professionalism

Trusted Advisor

Thanks for posting this. I've been so desensitised by the waves of TED-worthy solutionism way of thinking. Locally, the Yale-NUS kids are especially notorious for such ideas because THIS is the way they gain prestige among their circles. Doesn't matter if the ideas actually work, just need that notch on their CV and they're ready to ride it all the way to an upper management level in McKinsey.

Unfortunately, this will be the norm among the upper-middle and upper classes for a long time to come. Here are some books for those interested to learn more.

Winners Take All

To Solve Everything, Click Here

Geek Heresy

Not to say that people shouldn't strive for social change, etc. But real change requires real grind and understanding. The people doing so aren't usually in the media limelight either.

Two pieces that I was reminded of just today might be tangentially useful to you. Heather Douglas is a relatively big name in philosophy of science, part of whose general attitude to the practice of good science is that it cannot reduce to a naive concept of "objectivity". She also argues that at least sometimes good science is not just informed by notions that are naively taken to be the core of "rationality" (as you put it, that's not my words or hers so your mileage may vary), such as e.g. well-designed experiment, plausible inferences, the repudiation of cognitive bias etc.

Failing to consider values which are generally held to be outside the scope of science, and failing to critically examine whether concepts putatively at the core of scientific practice are well-explained or even coherent, could lead you to an overdose of rationality.

http://individual.utoronto.ca/michael_miller/courses/sv_f17/documents/douglas_2000.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20118400

She also has a book on roughly this idea, as it applies to govt. policy

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Policy-Value-Free-Heather-Douglas/dp/0822960265

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You might also be interested in:

William James, "The Will to Believe"

Re-reading Hume on this subject more fully in the 1st Enquiry

Hugh MacDiarmid, who touches on this in "The Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle" (poetry)

Thomas Carlyle, who satirises an overdose of rationality in "Sartor Resartus" (novel)

And most close to my heart, Laurence Sterne in "Tristram Shandy" (sort of a novel, contains extended ridicule of the rationalistic worldview)

Oh, and also Flann O'Brien, especially in "The Dalkey Archive" (also a novel)

Aqui explica um dos motivos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEPMGhBaioo

Editado: e para uma explicação bem detalhada tem: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501599172&sr=8-1&keywords=marcia+angell https://www.amazon.com/Overdosed-America-Promise-American-Medicine/dp/0061344761/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061344761&pd_rd_r=CVFSQNC32QB2VFKGGBAC&pd_rd_w=Qm3wb&pd_rd_wg=gtytp&psc=1&refRID=CVFSQNC32QB2VFKGGBAC https://www.amazon.com/800-Million-Pill-Truth-behind/dp/0520246705/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501599308&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=the+100+million+dollar+pill https://www.amazon.com/Take-Medicines-Complicity-Business-Endanger/dp/0195300041/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501599376&sr=1-1&keywords=on+the+take

I often think about this passage from Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis:

>Most of man's ailments consist of illnesses that are acute and benign— either self- limiting or subject to control through a few dozen routine interventions. For a wide range of conditions, those who are treated least probably make the best progress.

>"For the sick," Hippocrates said, "the least is best." More often than not, the best a learned and conscientious physician can do is convince his patient that he can live with his impairment, reassure him of an eventual recovery or of the availability of morphine at the time when he will need it, do for him what grandmother could have done, and otherwise defer to nature.

>The new tricks that have frequent application are so simple that the last generation of grandmothers would have learned them long ago had they not been browbeaten into incompetency by medical mystification.[...]For acute sickness, treatment so complex that it requires a specialist is often ineffective and much more often inaccessible or simply too late.

Bring back medical metis!

I actually had to read a book in school about this. It is more our culture and has been changing since the industrial revolution. the book is "The cheating culture"

http://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Culture-Americans-Doing-Wrong/dp/0151010188

I feel this is the problem with america more than the right and left bullshit. Mostly that a lot of people want to get a head and at the same time there seems to be a lacking of personal responsibility. I notice it is always someone else's fault.

I started Skin in the Game the other day after reading a couple blog posts about it and, wow, I think Taleb is probably the most cutting intellectual alive today.

He seems to have no interest in being liked and it further seems like 30% of the time he's actively trying to make the reader dislike him. Which helps make me love him.

It feels like the world is completely awash in pandering assholes lately and it's refreshing to not feel like I'm being told what to think or how to feel in a world of article titles that end in "here's why it matters" like I need to be told what to think matters and why.

Some interesting stuff from the book:

>An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

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>If you want to show that a person has more than, say $ 10 million, all you need is to show the $ 50 million in his brokerage account, not, in addition, list every piece of furniture in his house, including the $ 500 painting in his study and the silver spoons in the pantry. So I’ve discovered, with experience, that when you buy a thick book with tons of graphs and tables used to prove a point, you should be suspicious. It means something didn’t distill right! But for the general public and those untrained in statistics, such tables appear convincing— another way to substitute the true with the complicated.

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>The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

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>my heuristic is that the more pagan, the more brilliant one’s mind, and the higher one’s ability to handle nuances and ambiguity. Purely monotheistic religions such as Protestant Christianity, Salafi Islam, or fundamentalist atheism accommodate literalist and mediocre minds that cannot handle ambiguity.

i think you just selectively ignore all the evidence presented to you cuz it doesn't follow your beliefs.



the only way you would change ur opinion is if you historically have a bent against govt and big pharma because you know history and you know how they messed up big time due to the greedy nature of the system

• vioxx and the dozens of drugs recalled (and soon to be recalled like opioids) decades after they were released and harmed hundreds of thousands of ppl,
  
• the tobacco science,
  
• Asbestos (Johnson&Johnson knowingly having asbestos in baby powder)
  
• tamiflu,
  
• crap science showing marijuana was bad,
  
• Monsanto’s glyphosate causing cancer,
  
• tuskeegee and the countless other unethical experiments that have occurred in the states
  
  No wonder 3 former editors-in-chiefs of the New England Journal of Medicine (widely considered the premier medical journal) from the 90's and 2000's eventually left the journal and came out with books such as these.
  
  " It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." - Marcia Angell, former editior in chief of NEJM
  
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  Picture of the 3 books http://1boringoldman.com/images/angell.gif
  
  The Truth about Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it by Dr Marcia Angell
  
  On the Take: How medicine's complicity with Big Business can Endanger your Health by Dr. Jerome Kassirer,
  
  A Second Opinion: REscuing America’s Healthcare by Dr. Arnold Relman

The only book I can find under that name is under $10 :\

...i guess? i feel like the ppl most actively defending capitalism do it cos they know what it is & that it benefits them. for example this gem of a book by the ceo of whole foods

Start here: https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Organization-Applications-Oz-Shy/dp/0262691795

Then read: https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Industrial-Organization-MIT-Press/dp/0262200716

Then fill it with these: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/08/fall-2017-ph-d-industrial-organization-reading-list.html.

And if you're feeling frisky: https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Institutions-Capitalism-Oliver-Williamson/dp/068486374X.

Williamson might be the best intermediate step if you want something between Chase and Shy. Let me know if you want something more. My research is IO heavy.

> Community property is OK in certain circumstances. Sometimes it can provide good services and a favorable return to the economy.

How does one measure this "return"?

> I'm saying if a market can handle it, it should.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

You might change your views a bit after reading this book. Even George Will gave it a good review

Review:
"Michael J. Sandel, political philosopher and public intellectual, is a liberal, but not the annoying sort. His aim is not to boss people around but to bring them around to the pleasures of thinking clearly about large questions of social policy. Reading this lucid book is like taking his famous undergraduate course Justice without the tiresome parts, such as term papers and exams." George F. Will

You should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopoly perhaps.
Technology is an amplifier (see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geek-Heresy-Rescuing-Social-Technology/dp/161039528X ). But, in my opinion, after a while new technology always reinforce social control.
You right history is not linear neither is progress, only stupid history class makes you feel that way (but not good history class)

[Philosophy of technology] (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/) is going to be the best place to look. For engineering ethics I would recommend [this book] (https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Ethics-Charles-Harris-Jr/dp/0495502790/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1482595179&sr=8-8&keywords=engineering+ethics), which covers different ethical theories with a focus on case studies in engineering (they also have a newer edition but it is much more expensive).

Also, read the book Unscrewed.

Momentan citesc Growing Gourmet Medicinal Mushrooms. :)

Inainte de ea am terminat 12 Rules for Life.

Urmatoarea probabil o sa fie Skin in the game.


> Bonus: Cartea preferata.

Nu prea mai am o carte preferata. Sunt mai multe aflate la nivelul maxim din varii motive si nu prea pot alege intre ele.

"The Gift" a lui Hafiz si "Felicity" a lui Mary Oliver sunt doua carti de poezie care mi-au placut enorm si pe care le pot recomanda fara ezitare. :)

Will Larson's book has a few tidbits and nuggets regarding good technical program management strategies, though the book itself is geared more towards managers of people than projects/products.

I think learning the pros/cons of different project management philosophies is a good start. I'm not sure who ultimately dictates those things for the team(s) you work with, but try stealing some of that person's time to pick their brain after you've read up a bit.

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What's your problem with Ibrahim exactly? Is it the fact that he documents persecution of christians in the muslim world? Are those the "unsubstantiated stories" you allude to?

Again, you're not making an argument, you're just throwing around associations and assertions. Ibrahim, fake, fatwa, propaganda, ubsubstantiated, wreckless, "uncredible." Your post is peppered with these words, yet they are just assertions.

This whole thing about experts is something I reject outright. If someone is not lying and is approaching a subject honestly and actually making an argument, then why should we not listen to them? Particularly when they are not merely asserting something, but making an argument. When so-called "experts" like Aslan argue with Harris, they don't make arguments, they simply hold their expertise over Harris' head, and keep pointing to Harris' lack of "expertise" as a way to discredit him without addressing his points. It's like a bat they hit people over the head with.

If we are only to listen to so-called experts, then who is the expert who decided that you need to be an expert before you are worth listening to? Who is the expert who decides who is an expert and who is not? Do you need to have expertise in social philosophy or in discourse in order to say that we should listen to experts, and not to regular people? People often point out that someone does not have expertise, like you did, but what is their expertise for diagnosing lack of expertise? What is their expertise for saying that we should not listen to anyone except those with expertise? And what is your expertise that allows you to say that we should listen to people based on their level of expertise?

I'm just not down with the whole culture of expert-worship.

It's not that I don't believe anyone has more expertise than somebody else, but when I see no actual argument, only mere appeals to expertise, it literally says nothing to me. Expertise is not a trump card to pull out when you have no argument to make. It's just an argument from authority.

http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Us-Were-Experts-Manipulates/dp/1585421391

Yes. Thich Nhat Hanh talk and writes extensively on how to do this, and it is a practice in retreats in his tradition. He has a whole book just on meditation in work at whatever level.

[task] looking for this textbook.
can pay $5 via paypal

I don't have any great ideas myself, but this book might help

The capitalist in your applauds people losing their money? Ever heard of conscious capitalism? The mentality that scamming people of their money is good for capitalism is the reason why capitalism has a bad name and crony capitalism exists. I suggest checking this out: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Capitalism-New-Preface-Authors/dp/1625271751

I do philosophy of science policy, and the best book I've found on that is Heather Douglas' Science Policy and the Value Free Ideal. I've heard some fairly hard core policy wonks say it's the only philosophy book they enjoyed reading. It goes over the history of the role of the science advisor in US, and talks about the role values play in science and science policy. It's a fantastic read!

That's a lot of bullshit that has been fed to us by these companies over the years. Read this amazing book > Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science And Gambles With Your Life. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1585421391

Oliver Williamson has done a lot of work on factors to predict firm size, ownership type, and firm structure. I've read two of his books, Economic Institutions and Mechanisms of Governance, but none of his articles. I'd definitely recommend the Institutions book, the Mechanisms not as much. If you don't want to buy a book, he has a lot on google scholar. Henry Hansmann wrote another classic on the topic, and wikipedia has a summary.

Fred Kofman also has a great book
https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Business-Build-through-Values/dp/1622032020

and has some great videos denouncing the 'victim' mindset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXdN5kMioRQ

Movement to management isn't a promotion. It's a completely different job. It's important to ack that.

I wouldn't worry so much about the actual title, as there really is no standardization on what they mean. As you grow as a manager, you'll take on new types of management, and those opportunities are how you know you're progressing as a manager (single team -> multiple teams, small teams -> larger teams, managing engineers -> managing managers, local scope of influence -> org influence -> company influence).

MBA isn't necessary for Engineering Management. It could be helpful if you want to go hard and climb the ranks of Product Management though.

FWIW: I wish I had this book when I moved into management. (disclaimer, it's written by someone that I've worked with, and been managed by).

https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Puzzle-Systems-Engineering-Management/dp/1732265186

The first thing we need to do is parse through different categories of rights. There are negative rights, which means non-interference or an inability to impede action, and there are positive rights, where the state can compel action and is provided for you by someone else. So, for instance, Freedom of speech is a negative right, the right to an attorney and a trial are positive rights. Healthcare couldn't be considered a negative right, but it could be considered a positive one if you so wish.

However, healthcare doesn't even have to be framed in terms of rights, and I think the need and reliance for every political issue and policy to be framed in that way tends to make every argument a theoretical one and not one of actual governance. As /u/buffalo_pete mentions, it's a service and we can easily consider it as being one that a civil, developed country that can afford it without any real negative impact ought to provide for its citizens as part of the 'contract' (and I use that term sparingly and metaphorically) in its primary role of protecting its citizens. Welfare isn't a right, it's a communal decision that society has made which says that it's not okay for a society to let their citizens starve to death and die. Law enforcement isn't a right, but it's a service provided by the government which is vital and necessary to a functioning society. Healthcare could be more adequately argued in those terms rather than trying to convince people that it's an inalienable right.

Basically, any kind of universal healthcare ought to be seen as merely a piece of legislation and governance and argued on those terms instead of entering the theoretical quagmire of arguing over if it's a right or not. Is it effective in what it sets out to do? Does it raise the level of care for the populace? Is it cost effective? Are there possible alternatives that would be better? Etc. That's what the legislative branch of the government is there for, to argue over the merits of particular policies, not to decide for themselves what are rights and what aren't, and whether the legislation infringes on them. Those are questions for the courts to decide after legislation has been passed.

>It just seems like to me anyways that we as a nation have decided capitalism is a lifestyle choose rather than a economic model.

You might be interested in reading political philosopher Michael Sandel's book What Money Can't Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets where he argues that we're turning into a market society as opposed to a market economy.

your definitions are as weak as your character. "behaviour governed by principles? Like sleepwalking?"

for "real discussion", consult the following:

https://onelook.com/?w=ethics

another book which I learned from but beware: it's a bit more in-depth than your quick google search

EDIT: This website looks pretty interesting as well: http://www.cheatingculture.com/

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See also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheating_Culture

The book is on Amazon here

I think the author is "spot on" (and indeed that he doesn't even go far enough) -- rather than merely having become a "cheating culture" we have become a culture where "perception" (i.e. a facade) is considered more important than the reality.

Thus companies will do whatever they can to be perceived as a "quality" company, to achieve the label of ISO 9000 (or whatever).

Likewise with individuals -- whether it is certifications, degrees, awards, or whatever -- the pursuit of the IMAGE/IMPRESSION is considered of more value than the underlying actual knowledge/discipline (i.e. at a very basic level, people do not see "tests" as a way of verifying what they know, but rather as simply some "hoop" they have to jump through, and so long as they can "pass the test" -- whether by cramming, cribbing, cheating or whatever means necessary -- they have accomplished their goal, not caring whether the knowledge that the test is supposed to certify is capable of being recalled a day, week, or month later. It is the equivalent of building a "facade" of a house -- so long as it endures long enough to be "sold" -- many people do not care whether it will crumble a week later.)

A not so dissimilar "culture" was present in the Soviet Union, where the goals of 5 year plans were always (on paper) "achieved" even if they never actually were in reality.

this might help: "How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)" https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html

also, many years ago i read True Professionalism written by a harvard prof: https://www.amazon.com/True-Professionalism-Courage-People-Clients/dp/0684840049

it was useful to me when thinking about the type of career i wanted

Looking for PDF:
Ethics in Engineering, 4th Edition
By. Mike W. Martin and Roland Schinzinger
ISBN: 0072831154

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0072831154/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_VnEGBbQFCA1YG

Or international version:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071112936/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_HShKBb3N7QYHV

PayPal - $7

By my friend. I am a believer!

http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Capitalism-New-Preface-Authors/dp/1625271751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416173741&sr=8-1&keywords=Conscious+capitalism

Practicing morality; actively engaging with compassion and kindness in your work, whatever it may be :) is 'good enough'. One does not need to do something epic and heroic; if you are helping people that is great :), but concentrating on cultivating day to day morality is enough of a worthy and difficult cause in and of itself; so do not worry too much.

Also check out this book :)!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1937006204/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t

Smells like bullshit. Let me check those prices.

Acta Philosophorum The First Journal of Philosophy: $270

Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications: $283

Management Science An Anthology: $37

History of Early Film: $224

Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology: $140

Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology: $40

Feminism and Politics: $4

Concepts and Design of Chemical Reactors: $149

Advanced Semiconductor and Organic Nano-Techniques: $195

Ethics in Business and Economics: $4

Environment in the New Global Economy: $400

Solid State Chemistry and Its Applications: $40

Of course, they're still a rip off.

http://www.amazon.com/On-Take-Medicines-Complicity-Business/dp/0195300041

Sounds conspiratorial, but it's just reality of profits. Lobby groups help keep the status quo and protect those profits. There is huge resistance to change from the parties that benefit - the corporations that profit from sugary stuff, as well as from the medical industry especially pharmaceutical companies who depend on an illing populace.