Philosophy Inc.

1 Part I: Wisdom-Why Should We Practice Philosophy?.- 1.1 What Does Philosophy Have to Tell Us About Business?.- 1.2 Why Managers Should Develop the Habit of Examining Their Actions.- 1.3 Philosophy and Common Sense: Lessons from a Seventeenth-Century Cleric.- 1.4 Does Meritocracy Apply to Business?.- 1.5 Do We Deserve Our Talent? Not According to John Rawls.- 1.6 The Matthew Effect: Michael Sandel on Merit.- 1.7 Inculcating Knowledge in the Young: John Locke's Golden Rules of Children's Education.- 2 Part 2: Leadership-Who Do I Want to Be?.- 2.1 Beware of the Charismatic Candidate.- 2.2 Why Humility Is a Sign of Strength.- 2.3 Where Would Business Be Without Its Supporting Actors?.- 2.4 Why Are Geniuses Often Unreasonable? The Case of J.S. Bach.- 2.5 True Leaders Only Win the Argument When They're Right.- 2.6 Let's Be Honest, Success Is Usually the Exception.- 2.7 Why It's Natural to Sometimes Feel Like an Imposter.- 2.8 What's in a Name: Do You Want to Be Remembered or Forgotten?.- 3 Part 3: Insight-What Can I know?.- 3.1 Why the Days of Magical Realism Are Far from Over.- 3.2 What David Hume Can Tell Us About Cause and Effect in Business.- 3.3 Just How Rational Are We?.- 3.4 How to Keep Your Head in the Fog of War.- 3.5 You May Not Know It, But You're Probably Guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy.- 3.6 Why Not All Prophecies Need to Be Fulfilled.- 3.7 What Do Plato and Steve Jobs Have in Common?.- 3.8 Who Wants to Live in a Goldfish Bowl?.- 4 Part 4: Vision-What Does the Future Look Like?.- 4.1 What Would Thomas Hobbes Made of Mark Zuckerberg?.- 4.2 What Will Reality Mean When We're All Living in the Metaverse?.- 4.3 Siri Would Certainly Have Given Wittgenstein Food for Thought.- 4.4 What Makes a Robot Tick?.- 4.5 Let's Not Forget: Robots Are Neither Good Nor Bad; They're Our Creation.- 4.6 The Remote Working Debate: It's Not Just About Productivity and Convenience.- 4.7 WhyHave So Few Philosophers Written About Work?.- 4.8 Let's Remember That Education Is Not Just About Transferring Knowledge, It's a Journey.- 5 Part 5: Honesty-How Should I Behave?.- 5.1 What Makes the Best Strategic Mindset: Business First, or Ethics Above All Else?.- 5.2 Kant and Appiah, Two Routes to Cosmopolitanism.- 5.3 Speaking Truth to Power: The Pros and Cons.- 5.4 Why Keeping One's Council Is Often the Best Course of Action.- 5.5 Pay Credit Where Credit Is Due and You'll Be Seen as a Better Leader.- 5.6 What Schopenhauer Can Teach Us About Respect.- 5.7 Where to Draw the Line on Lying?.- 5.8 Why Teaching the Humanities Is the Best Way to Improve Management Studies.- 6 Part 6: Optimism-Is Happiness Attainable?.- 6.1 If Life Is a Comedy, Why Not Laugh More?.- 6.2 Aristotle, a Man Who Understood Happiness.- 6.3 Why It's Best to Accentuate the Positive, Within Reason.- 6.4 Solitude, Plus Contemplation, Equals Happiness.- 6.5 Will We Ever Really Understand Humor?.- 6.6 Why We Need toLearn to Laugh in the Workplace.- 6.7 Finding the Strength to Go On: Resilience Explained.