The Law of Small Things: Creating a Habit of Integrity in a Culture of Mistrust

In this Audiobook

• Chapter 1 An Inconsequential Untruth: They call it a “white lie” because we still feel pure after telling it.
• Chapter 2 The Small Evasions of Everyday Life: Which emails do you ignore?
• Chapter 3 Free Dinner on a Friend's Expense Account: Benign benevolence or freeloading on community trust?
• Chapter 4 The Truth about Lying: When is an untruth a lie and when is it “just a story”?
• Chapter 5 To Thine Own Self Be True: Who made “thine own self” the center of the moral universe?
• Chapter 6 Freedom Is No Bargain: Buying fancy apparel at cut-rate prices on big-city street corners
• Chapter 7 Just Do the Right Thing: But what if there are two “right things”?
• Chapter 8 Hogging a Table at Starbucks: The duty of civility in public places
• Chapter 9 Retaliation and the Practice of Integrity: When the bastard never gets back to you
• Chapter 10 The Trip of a Lifetime: Achieving a cherished goal or saving a life?
• Chapter 11 The Crippling Use of Handicap Permits: Is it your place to confront permit cheats?
• Chapter 12 A Contest of Wills: “I know what Dad said, but if it's not in the will …”
• Chapter 13 Your Cousin's Keeper: When a family member deceives the public
• Chapter 14 Taking Stock of Your Portfolio: “I just do whatever my broker says.”
• Chapter 15 Into Thin Air: The ethics of listening to public radio without contributing
• Chapter 16 Your Obstinate Car Mechanic: “This is an emergency. How dare he make me wait?”
• Chapter 17 Coping with Copyright Laws and Other Pesky Implied Promises: “No harm, no foul.”
• Chapter 18 Your Coworker's Impending Layoff: Do you warn him or obey the boss and keep quiet?
• Chapter 19 Purveying Falsehood for a Living: “What the client says goes, right?”
• Chapter 20 Pressure to Make Quota: “I either make it or it breaks me.”
• Chapter 21 Combating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: “Of course we're against it, but he's just too powerful.”
• Chapter 22 Your Company's New Mission Statement: Coping with hypocrisy, duplicity, and sheer nonsense in the workplace
• Chapter 23 Bribing Foreign Officials: “But that's the way they do business here.”
• Chapter 24 How Do You Know When You Don't Know That You Don't Know?: “I'd rather pretend I knew.”
• Chapter 25 “I Meant to Put in a Good Word for You; I Really Did.”: “I've blown my integrity. Now what do I do?”
• Chapter 26 The Lying Truth about Negative Campaign Advertisements: “But it's the only way to win.”
• Chapter 27 Break Your Promise and Run for a Third Term: “If they don't like it, they can vote for the other guy.”
• Chapter 28 The Dysfunction of Partisanship: “It's just politics.”
• Chapter 29 Paying Special Attention to a Campaign Contributor: To serve truthfulness in politics, is there any room for loyalty?
• Chapter 30 Failing to Prepare for a Vote or a Meeting: “Family comes first.”
• Chapter 31 “I've Just Had It with This Guy.”: Holding back when you have every “right” to strike back