2024 Reviews

Reimagining Business: Virtue, Spirituality, Wisdom

John, Richard R.

How might business leadership be reimagined to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century? Historians often parry questions of this kind. Geoffrey Jones, to his great credit, has not. To ensure an ethically just and environmentally sustainable future, Jones believes, it is imperative that business leaders change course. In Deeply Responsible, Jones’s most ambitious book to date, a master historian draws on his vast knowledge of the history of business leadership in Europe, Asia, and the United States to chart a way forward. Neither a textbook nor a monograph, it deftly combines collective biography, social critique, and intellectual history in a clear and compelling analytical narrative that spans three continents and four centuries.