Duty to Dissent

Duty to Dissent
Author: Geoff Keelan
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 077483885X

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassa’s evolving perspective on the war’s meaning and consequences. What emerges is not a simplistic sketch of a local journalist engaged in national debates, as most English Canadians know him, but a fully rendered portrait of a Canadian looking out at the world.

Simply Brilliant

Simply Brilliant
Author: William C. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0241971241

'There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. In fact, the opportunity to reach for extraordinary may be most pronounced in settings that have been far too ordinary for far too long' Far away from Silicon Valley, in familiar, traditional, even unglamorous fields, ordinary people are unleashing extraordinary advances that amaze customers, energize employees, and create huge economic value. Their secret? They understand that inventing the future doesn't just mean designing mobile apps and developing virtual-reality headsets. In Simply Brilliant, the visionary co-founder of Fast Company William C. Taylor goes behind the scenes at some of the unsung organizations that are revolutionizing their otherwise humdrum fields. These unlikely agents of change range from a parking garage that also serves as a wedding venue, to a military insurance company that puts salespeople through simulated overseas deployment. The message is both simple and subversive: in a time of wrenching disruptions and exhilarating leaps, of unrelenting turmoil and unlimited promise, the future is open to everybody. Simply Brilliant illustrates how breakthrough creativity and breakaway performance can be summoned in all industries, if leaders dare to reimagine what's possible in their fields.

Dissent: Voices of Conscience

Dissent: Voices of Conscience
Author: Ann Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781608465842

Stories of men and women, who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom for truth.

The Fiduciary Duty of Dissent

The Fiduciary Duty of Dissent
Author: Joseph W. Yockey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Corporate governance
ISBN:

“Organizations increasingly identify “dissent”—meaning the expression of disagreement with organizational strategies, decisions, or actions by employees who lack the power to execute change on their own—as a best practice and core value. But despite these pronouncements, employees at all levels often remain silent. Even powerful directors on corporate boards routinely decline to express disagreement with what they assume is the majority consensus. Alarmingly, this mindset can extend to critical safety issues. When asked why they do not speak up, many employees cite a fear of adverse personal or professional repercussions. Others simply believe that speaking up is pointless because they will be ignored. When these attitudes prevail, firms are deprived of the important knowledge gains that result from dissent. In extreme cases, the lack of dissent can lead to major ethical lapses and even the loss of human life. This Article argues that organizational dissent is much more than a facet of management ethics and good institutional citizenship; it is a firmly embedded—albeit traditionally overlooked—feature of classic fiduciary law. By illuminating the strong pro-dissent norms that are inherent in the traditional duties of care, loyalty, and performance owed by corporate fiduciaries, this Article reconceptualizes dissent as a fiduciary duty. In so doing, it not only reinvigorates the academic and legal understanding of organizational dissent; it also gives new teeth to managerial efforts to stimulate meaningful dissent. A fiduciary understanding of dissent enhances organizational engagement with dissent and helps to re-center efforts to promote compliance, manage risk, and diversify all levels of organizations, including corporate boards.”

Revolutionary Dissent

Revolutionary Dissent
Author: Stephen D. Solomon
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466879394

When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other. Uninhibited dissent provided a distinctly American meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press at a time when the legal doctrine inherited from England allowed prosecutions of those who criticized government. Solomon discovers the wellspring in our revolutionary past for today's satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and protests like flag burning and street demonstrations. From the inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the political theater of Alexander McDougall, the liberty tree protests of Ebenezer McIntosh and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Solomon shares the stories of the dissenters who created the American idea of the liberty of thought. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America.

Patriotic Dissent

Patriotic Dissent
Author: Daniel A. Sjursen
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781597145145

What is patriotism in our volatile age? This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop of the terror wars of the last two decades, Sjursen asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism. Once a burgeoning believer and budding conservative, who performed an intellectual and spiritual about face, Sjursen calls for a critical exploration of our allegiances, and suggests a path to a new, more complex notion of patriotism. Equal parts somber and idealistic, this is a story about what it means to be an American in the midst of perpetual war, and what the future of patriotism might look like.