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Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect.Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They're largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions - and we needn't seek perfection to make a real difference for ourselves and the world.Better, Not Perfect provides a deeply researched, prescriptive roadmap for how to maximize our pleasure and minimize pain. Bazerman shares a framework to be smarter and more efficient, honest and aware - to attain your "maximum sustainable goodness." In Part Two, he identifies four training grounds to practice these newfound skills for outsized impact: how you think about equality and your tribe(s) ; waste - from garbage to corporate excess; the way you spend time; and your approach to giving - whether your attention or your money.
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Max Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where his research and teaching focus on negotiation, behavioral economics, and ethics. His new book, Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness, offers concrete advice on how we can all make the world better by maximizing our pleasure and minimizing our pain. Max is the author, coauthor, or co-editor of 19 books and over 200 research articles and chapters. Other recent books include The Power of Experiments (with Michael Luca) , The Power of Noticing, Negotiation Genius (with Deepak Malhotra) , Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (with Don Moore) , and Blind Spots (with Ann Tenbrunsel) .An award-winning scholar and mentor, Max has consulted, taught, and lectured with hundreds of organizations all over the world, from corporations to governments to nonprofits. His former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States. Max has received an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School) . He was named one of Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and a Daily Kos Hero for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial.You can learn more about Max by visiting www.people.hbs.edu/mbazerman
