Make an Ethical Difference

Our guest Mark Pastin is an award-winning ethics thought leader, ethics consultant, and keynote speaker. In an important new book, Make an Ethical Difference: Tools for Better Action, Pastin lays out a clear-cut framework that enables anyone, in any situation—no matter how complex—to solve the problem and arrive at a decision that’s based on rock-solid ethics.

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Clarity from Chaos: Mark Pastin Mark started working on ethics and compliance problems in business, government and the professions in the early 1970s. His 1986 book, The Hard Problems of Management: Gaining the Ethics Edge, was the first to take a managerial approach to ethics in business. In his new book, Mark shows readers how to use their own innate ethical sense to create organizational and social change
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Mark J. Pastin Mark Pastin has served as President of the Council of Ethical Organizations since 1988. The Council is a non-profit organization focusing on ethics in business, government and the professions. Mark began working as an ethics advisor soon after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973. Over the past 40 years he has advised corporations and governments in the United States, Brazil, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Korea, Belgium, Mexico, Australia, France and Taiwan. He has served as a faculty member at Indiana University, the University of Michigan, Harvard University and Arizona State University, where he established the Lincoln Center for Ethics and served as Professor of Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business. His client list includes such corporations as American Express, Motorola, Medtronic, National Medical Enterprises, Intel, GE, NYNEX, Caterpillar, Oxford Health, MCI, Lincoln Electric, Caterpillar, GTECH, Texas Instruments, GlaxoSmithKline, the Williams Companies, National Health Laboratories, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Cadbury Schweppes, John Deere and many other large and mid-sized companies. He has also advised elected officials and candidates at all levels of state and Federal government, including two candidates for the U.S. Presidency. He is the author of numerous articles and books and has been quoted in publications including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and the New York Times. Mr. Pastin's Website