The Power of Ethics pays brief but pointed homage to theory and the great thinkers who have struggled for centuries to define ethics and its effects, then eschews those abstractions by leaping into practical usefulness by defining ethics—and its lack—by palpable behaviors and situations that readers can embrace or avoid. The special section on building an ethical organization in a hostile environment is applicable in equal doses to operations in less-developed and industrialized countries and in ethically immature organizations.