Hot off the press...

Greetings!

In the 1940s, my grandfather worked as a linotype printing-press operator. The machines were large, heavy, and heat intensive; the materials he printed were literally "hot off the press."

My newest book, The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions: How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul, is figuratively hot off the Princeton University Press. The book, written with my colleague Susan Richardson, is based on robust underlying scholarship and analysis of real-world cases, more than 20 years teaching an applied ethics course to undergraduate and graduate students, and advising C-suite executives, civic leaders, and young professionals around the globe.

I wrote the book to help people and their organizations be more ethical: to anticipate the ethical issues they will inevitably encounter; to develop an ethical framework for wiser decision-making; to navigate the ethical gray zone; and to provide techniques to stay ethically fit. Or, as one retired senior executive wrote about an advance copy of the book: “It’s not if you’ll be faced with ethical dilemmas, it’s when. Use these practical strategies to manage those dilemmas. Consider it sleep insurance.”

The ideas and tools contained in the book are applicable to professional and corporate settings, for-profits and not-for-profits, and secular and faith-based communities. Further, it's also designed to serve as an academic textbook or supplementary reading.

I hope my grandfather would be proud to print The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions: How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul. You can purchase the book via Amazon or your local bookstore. I look forward to your comments about the book. May it help you be the ethical person you strive to be.

Best,

David

David W. Miller, Ph.D.

Director, Faith & Work Initiative

Princeton University

FWI Advisory Board

George Bauer, Chairman, GPB, Ltd.
Marc Belton, Founder, Wisefellows Consulting
Yoni Benyamini '16, Mortgage Backed Securities Analyst, Citi
Rich Berg, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Performance Trust Capital Partners
Barbara Byrne S76 P10 P13 P15 P16, Independent Director, Paramount Global, PowerSchool, LanzaTech
Laura Forese MD '83 P13 P18, COO (ret.), New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System
Brill Garrett '88 S89, Jason Garrett Starfish Charities
Pat Gelsinger, Executive Chair, Gloo; general partner, Playground; CEO (ret.) Intel
Tom Horton P15, Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
Dale Jones, CEO Magna Vista Partners LLC
Tom Levinson '96, Author, cofounder of LK Advisors

Yung Bong Lim '87 P24 P25, Managing Partner (ret.), RDG Funds LLC
Devon Naftzger McCourt '16 S15, Vice President at BDT & MSD Partners
Lizzy McGee '18, Founder and CEO of TexasLand USA
Mimi Pivirotto Murley '76 S72 P07 P10, Leading civic volunteer
Robert Murley '72 S76 P07 P10, Vice Chairman and Senior Advisor, UBS
Craig Philip '75 S76 P06, Director, Vanderbilt University Center for Transportation Research
Marcus Stroud '16, Cofounder and CEO, TXV Partners
Toni Townes-Whitley '85, former CEO, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
John Tyson, Chairman, Tyson Foods, Inc.
Kevin Weiss '79 S79, CEO, Sectigo, Inc.
Jacob Worenklein, Chairman and CEO, US Grid Company
Johanna Zeilstra, CEO, Gender Fair

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The Faith & Work Initiative is a teaching and research center within the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Keller Center committed to exploring ethics, values, and practices of exchange on the frontier of complex social challenges. We explore foundational meanings and promote ethical awareness across our constituencies at every phase of life and work. To do so, we look back—both in terms of the histories of ethical philosophy and also the varying authoritative traditions of religious communities. We approach such histories and wisdom traditions as beneficial for understanding as well as framing contemporary global challenges. With our team of ethical philosophers, philosophers of religion, and historians, as well as our global partners from a range of other disciplines, we commit to this rigorous portfolio of offerings for students, academic peers, religious communities, and leaders in the marketplace.