What does classical philosophy have to offer modern business? Nothing less than the secrets to building great morale and productivity in any size organization.
This is the message that Tom Morris will deliver this year to thousands of executives at more than one hundred major gatherings of leading companies such as Merrill Lynch, Coca Cola, Bayer, and Northwestern Mutual Life.
In I Aristotle Ran General Motors, Morris, who taught philosophy at Notre Dame for fifteen years, shares the knowledge that he has garnered from a lifetime of studying the writings and teachings of history's wisest thinkers and shows how to apply their ideas in today's business envi-ronment.
Although he frequently draws
on the wisdom of Aristotle, Morris also finds inspiration in the teachings of a wide array of thinkers from many different traditions and eras. Throughout these pages we're invited to pause and consider the words of Confucius, Seneca, Saint Augustine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, and many others.