The Politics of Fortune or Leaders and Legacies

The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda For Business Leaders

Author: Jeffrey E E Garten

In The Politics of Fortune, Jeffrey E. Garten poses two questions: What is the emerging shape of the world in the wake of both the September 11 terrorist attacks and the corporate scandals that began with Enron? What role should business leaders play in this new era? In this controversial book, Garten recommends a bold but feasible new agenda for CEOs-one that will not only require them to rebuild their tarnished reputations, but to partner with government in charting a new course that differs radically from what we've known in the 1980s and 1990s.

Garten calls for business leaders to engage in constructive public initiatives to an extent that we've not seen since the immediate aftermath of World War II. He shows how CEOs must change not just their corporate and public strategies but their way of thinking about their responsibilities-not only to their shareholders but to a broader society. He describes the challenges that they must confront and the concrete steps that they must take in a number of areas:

· Protecting homeland security
· Rebuilding trust in markets and corporate America
· Establishing a stronger foundation for free trade
· Devising better ways to reduce global poverty
· Expanding corporate citizenship abroad
· Charting a more effective foreign policy
· Reorienting business education for the new era

The Politics of Fortune contains critical insights for anyone who wants to understand better the context for the enormous changes sweeping over our country and our world, and the role that private enterprise must play in building a more secure and more prosperous future.

Author Biography: Jeffrey E. Garten is Dean of the Yale School of Management. Formerly a Managing Director for Lehman Brothers, Inc. and The Blackstone Group on Wall Street, he also held senior economic and foreign policy positions in the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Clinton administrations. Now a columnist for Business Week, his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and the Harvard Business Review. He lives with his wife, Ina, in Connecticut and New York.

Publishers Weekly

With headlines about fiscal malfeasance becoming as normal as weather reports, Garten delivers a timely and well-reasoned rationale for executives to become better public citizens, and not only to improve their public image. He presents a range of public policy challenges that business leaders should be more engaged in-fiscal responsibility, accounting fraud, domestic security, world poverty-contending that these political problems have a huge impact on the private sector, and we would all be better off if CEOs helped solve them. A Business Week columnist and dean of Yale's School of Management, Garten spends his days telling present and future CEOs how to conduct their business. There are moral undertones to his arguments, but his call for a stronger public and private partnership is practical. For example, there's no way for the government to secure the nation's infrastructure against terrorists without working closely with the private firms that own it. Although the broad range of issues prevents Garten from addressing any single one with great depth, his points are clear and well supported. He doesn't simply rail against outrageous stock options; he shows how they mislead investors and damage consumer confidence ("the Federal Reserve estimates that between 1995 and 2000, if the Standard and Poor's 500 companies had accounted for their options as an expense, their average annual earnings growth would have declined from 12 percent to 9.4 percent"). Although his prose is at times dry and academic, American business leaders would do well to follow Garten's agenda. (Nov. 4)

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Leaders and Legacies: Contributions to the Profession of Counseling

Author: John D West

Leaders and Legacies is the first book to focus specifically on the important contributions of leaders in the counseling profession. It covers a variety of topics, including the importance of leadership in the field of counseling, leadership efforts that have been made, the history of the counseling professional, and leadership opportunities for counselors in school, community and counselor education settings. It also includes profiles of 22 current leaders in the field. This book was written by some of the most distinguished senior counselor educators in the field, and has received the support of CACREP, NBCC, and Chi Sigma Iota--the three leading organizations for counselors.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Academy of Advisors
Pt. I	Perspectives on Leadership	1
Ch. 1	Dimensions of Leadership in the Counseling Profession	3
Ch. 2	Counseling: Milestones and History Makers	23
Ch. 3	School Counselors: Leadership Opportunities and Challenges in the Schools	51
Ch. 4	Community Counseling: Leadership Opportunities Today	65
Ch. 5	Tapping the Potential: Leadership Possibilities for Master's Degree Students	79
Ch. 6	The Doctorate in Counselor Education: Implications for Leadership	95
Pt. II	Noted Leaders and their Legacies	109
Ch. 7	Michael Kent Altekruse	111
Ch. 8	Roger F. Aubrey	119
Ch. 9	Loretta Bradley	129
Ch. 10	David Kendrick Brooks, Jr.	135
Ch. 11	Mary Thomas Burke	143
Ch. 12	Harold F. Cottingham	151
Ch. 13	Samuel Templeman Gladding	159
Ch. 14	Harold L. (Dick) Hackney	165
Ch. 15	Edwin L. Herr	173
Ch. 16	George E. Hill	183
Ch. 17	Thomas Walsh Hosie	189
Ch. 18	Kenneth B. Hoyt	199
Ch. 19	Courtland C. Lee	205
Ch. 20	Judith A. Lewis	213
Ch. 21	Don C. Locke	221
Ch. 22	John (Johnnie) McFadden	229
Ch. 23	Jane E. Myers	237
Ch. 24	Merle M. Ohlsen	245
Ch. 25	Theodore P. Remley Jr.	253
Ch. 26	Bruce Shertzer	259
Ch. 27	Robert O. Stripling	265
Ch. 28	Thomas J. Sweeney	273
Ch. 29	Joe Wittmer	283
Pt. III	Dimensions and Areas for Leadership	291
Ch. 30	Dimensions and Areas for Leadership	293
	Contributors	309
	Index	313