Philosophy Inc: Applying Wisdom to Everyday Management

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 Why Have 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 Abo