About the book
Drawing on two decades' experience helping global companies respond to catastrophic ethical scandals, Ortus CEO José Hernandez tells the compelling story of how such scandals happen and shares insight on how corporate leaders can prevent them in the first place.
Offering real-world case studies of corporate failure, reckoning, and renewal, Broken Business: Seven Steps to Reform Good Companies Gone Bad details how corporate leaders can learn from these events to mitigate key risks, protect their reputations, and ultimately build more ethical, resilient, and profitable companies. The book dispels common misconceptions about the causes of corporate misconduct, bringing together research on organizational psychology and compelling first-hand accounts from Fortune Global 500 c-suites and boardrooms.
This book was written to help leaders, board members, and compliance professionals:
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Understand recent cases of corporate misconduct and their long-term impacts;
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Prevent, manage, and recover from serious ethical crises;
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Implement managerial frameworks to quickly address cases of misconduct; and
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Empower Integrity in your organization.
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At its core, this book is an engaging guide that offers practical advice on institutionalizing integrity in any organization. Broken Business is an essential text for leaders seeking to understand the underlying causes of ethical crises so they can ultimately avoid them.
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Published by Wiley. Available in English, Dutch, German, and Korean.
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