Good Value: Choosing a Better Life in Business

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Shortlisted for the Goldman Sachs / FT Business Book of the Year Award 2009 Stephen Green - current Chairman of HSBC and ordained priest - believes above all that our lives should be lived with integrity. And more than that- these beliefs should not be left at the boardroom door. In Good Value, he argues that our businesses have a duty to society and explores how those of us who work in a profit-making workplace can combine our spiritual and ethical selves with our everyday work. Examining money markets across the globe and through the ages in a fascinating study of history, politics, religion and economics, Stephen Green shows how financial progress shouldn't mean an end to ethics at work.

Stephen Green is currently Chairman of HSBC, following his time as CEO from 2003 - 2006. He has worked with HSBC since 1982 and has been an ordained priest in the Church of England since 1988. Chairman of the British Banker's Association, he is also Chair of the Prime Minister's Business Council for Britain and a Trustee of the British Museum. A well known and prominent figure in international business and media, he has spoken widely on integrity and sustainability in business and on the value of values.

Engaging and convincing * The Times * Offers a challenge to a financial elite that sold its soul for profit . . . welcome and timely . . . lucidly argued * Spectator Business * A heartfelt and humane defence of the globalising process . . . cheering, even inspiring, to come across a prince of finance who tries so sincerely and so eloquently to heal the schism * Independent * There could hardly be a better moment for this book to be published * Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury *