Book Titles

Good Work
When Excellence and Ethics Meet

By Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon

Year Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 978-0465026081
Categories: Ethics, Excellence, Work

37 Quotes Found

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Divided economic control results in split loyalties, and the old rules no longer apply.

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…when the function of the domain becomes perverted, the profession loses much of its social mandate and its members become demoralized.

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When the flow potential of a domain is exhausted, the risk is that members of the field will become bored and retreat into a rigid orthodoxy in an attempt to protect the relevance of their contribution.

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Domains and fields can clash with the demands of stakeholders. Whenever alignment fragments, both society and the profession are likely to suffer.

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Information is power, and it is the experts who hold most of the power.

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…it is too simpleminded to speak of a single entity called intelligence: human beings possess a spectrum of intelligences…

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However defined and however cultivated, intellectual capacities are becoming the traits most rewarded by society and, therefore, most adaptive.

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Honesty and integrity stand as cornerstones in science; only the most dense, disturbed, and corrupt young practitioners fail to grasp this point.

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The power of a religious belief is not easily rivaled, but the mission of a domain – the sense of calling for a profession – can play an analogous role.

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…news coverage that is biased, distorted, or incomplete undermines the capacities of societies to flourish and robs individuals of the capacity to adapt purposively to changing conditions.

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