The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse

Do you want to make sure you Don't invest your money in the next Enron? Don't go to work for the next WorldCom right before the crash? Identify and solve problems in your organization before they send it crashing to the ground?

Marianne Jennings has spent a lifetime studying business ethics--and ethical failures. In demand nationwide as a speaker and analyst on business ethics, she takes her decades of findings and shows us in The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse the reasons that companies and nonprofits undergo ethical collapse, including Pressure to maintain numbers Fear and silence Young 'uns and a larger-than-life CEO A weak board Conflicts Innovation like no other Belief that goodness in some areas atones for wrongdoing in others Don't watch the next accounting disaster take your hard-earned savings, or accept the perfect job only to find out your boss is cooking the books. If you're just interested in understanding the (not-so) ethical underpinnings of business today, The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse is both a must-have tool and a fascinating window into today's business world.

M. JENNINGS is a professor at Arizona State University and the author of A Business Tale. She speaks often on business and ethics.

Her weekly columns are syndicated around the country, and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Reader's Digest. She lives in Mesa, Arizona.