M. Jennings

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 othersDon'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."

Ranulph Higden, monk of St. Werburgh's Abbey and well-known author of the «Polychronicon» and other treatises, penned a concise and user-friendly Art of Preaching about 1346. His «Ars componendi sermones» follows a schematic common to many members of this genre and includes attributes desirable or necessary in the preacher, methods for piquing an audience's interest, the process of effective repetition, and suggestions for creating rhythmic patterns in prose. Its major focus, however, is the clear and comprehensive discussion of each thematic sermon part: the theme or scriptural text, its development in protheme and introduction, its division, subdivision, and embellishment. In structure and content, Higden's prescriptive manual has affinities to contemporary rhetorical texts, especially the «artes poeticae» and «dictaminis», and displays an analogous relationship with Ciceronian «dispositio» as developed in the «De Inventione» and «Rhetorica ad Herennium». A few of the many items of interest scattered throughout the text are Ranulph's insistence that preaching be separate from university exercises and his comments about various subjects like direct entry into heaven «post mortem», the scope of medieval optics, what and who compose the church, and the quadruple levels of scriptural exegesis.