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Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly [E-Book]
Howard Gardner (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-1180-4750-7
E-Book
368 pages
December 2010
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"Gardner and his colleagues outline steps that can be taken to build a sense of responsibility and to take ownership for one's work and its wider impact." (District Administration, 07/08)

Overall, this book represents a valuable contribution the literature on understanding the meaning of work in our lives. (PsycCRITIQUES, 05/28/08)

"The questions are though-provoking; the responses, profound. Of highest interest is the tool kit that the GoodWork Project has developed." (Nonfiction Philosophy and Psychology)

"The book is well researched and makes for interesting reading that administrators and teachers could all benefit from." (The School Administrator, 04/2008)

"This book appeals to a wide audience as an array of informative and skillfully written insights into the responsibilities, meaning, and ethics of work." (NACADA, 03/11/08)

"Responsibility at work provides strategies for cultivating responsibility in those at work and those who may enter the profession." (Ad-Hoc-News, 10/17/2007)

Gardner's book mentioned in an article - " my favorite chapter is 'Creativity and Responsibility'…." (Daily Herald, 09/12/2007)

“In this remarkable collection of essays, Gardner and his colleagues have given us an astonishing array of penetrating insights into the responsibilities, meaning, and ethics of work. Everyone, anyone, in any organization, can learn and profit from the wisdom in these pages.”—Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business and University Professor at the University of Southern California and author of On Becoming a Leader

 

 
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