How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for the kids' education? Protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? Have a heart-to-heart with a lying employee or fire him on the spot?

All of us face ethical choices. Sometimes they are easy: One side is wrong, and the other is right. However, how do we handle the tough "right vs. right" dilemmas, where each side has strong moral arguments, and we cannot do both? This book helps us build Ethical Fitness—a values-based decision-making process so definitive that it is now a registered trademark.

Rushworth M. Kidder, a founder of the Institute for Global Ethics, teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve ethical dilemmas ranging from the intimately personal to the broadly philosophical. Unique in its approach and rich with illustrative anecdotes—updated with examples of real-world conflicts from today's political realm and from Dr. Kidder's observations—How Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for spotting, understanding, and resolving our toughest decisions.