The Gods of Business (ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-6151-3800-8) by Dr. Todd
Albertson is an amazing, interesting, important and unique look and explanation of the world’s major religions and how those faiths can influence business ethics and the marketplace. This is a global book that is educational and thought provoking.
In The Gods of Business, Dr. Albertson keeps things simple without spoon feeding the reader he analyzes the world's major religions—Buddhism, Business Ethics, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Secular Postmodernism, Shintoism and Sikhism —and how their spiritual traditions impact business ethics.Every religion teaches and has its own points of view and “unique truths about the world, humanity and humanity’s relationship to the supernatural.” The Gods of Business does not preach to the reader, it simply lays out the basic truths of religions and how each religion is different regarding misconduct, sin, suffering, hope, life and death.
In a recent interview Dr. Albertson said, “I was interested in whether or not religion played any role in business ethics and explored that idea more in my doctoral thesis. At the same time, I found myself lecturing and teaching about different religions and what they believed. A lot of my students wanted to know how a specific religion would influence the way a group did business. I kept getting asked if there was a book available that explained all of this. And there wasn’t one - at least one that was readable by an average person. Consequently, I thought I’d write that book.”
The Gods of Business does not decide the issues of the present day. What it does do is presents the simple facts and belief of the major religions, ‘the basic ideas and values that many religions share towards business, and the most likely ways that people express their various faiths’ --- letting you the reader draw his or her own conclusions.
Dr. Albertson writes clearly and effectively in a way that is different from most non-fiction books on the shelves these days.As the author explains, “I take a different approach. I assume that people are inherently smart and have the ability to understand something more complex than comic books. I also believe that people can draw their own conclusions about cause and effect and given the basic understanding of a religion and its belief system can predict how adherents of that religion will respond to ethical situations in the marketplace.”
The Gods of Business is a global look and delivers many questions that will make you think differently about the world’s marketplace and the individual people who work nine to five everyday that continue to keep good businesses going decade after decade and offers validity to why bad businesses may not last. Dr. Albertson says it best when he says, “Religion has a lot to say about everything. Everybody has a worldview, the way an individual views the world and interacts within it. And religion is a large component of everybody's worldview.”
The Gods of Business is fascinating, powerful and insightful. This is the best book you will read this year!
The Gods of Business by Dr. Todd Albertson
TRINITY ALUMNI PRESS
TRADE PAPERBACK
200 PAGES
JULY 9, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-6151-3800-8
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Todd Albertson was born on April 10, 1965, in Great
Todd graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a degree in International Business in 1988. He earned an M.B.A. from Seattle University in 1995. In 2005, he graduated from Trinity Theological Union Graduate School with a Ph.D. in Theology & Culture.
Out of college, Todd worked for a Swiss venture capital firm and then as an evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. In 1995, he started a transportation and logistics company called Transportics Corporation. Todd received an honorary commission as an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy by then Governor Ben Nelsen for his company’s role in community investment.
After that Todd founded Small Town TV, an entertainment dot com and has been active in the motion picture industry since 1999, earning credits as a director, writer, and producer. Two of his projects, the 2002 documentary SIDEWALK SOLDIERS and independent feature SOLILOQUY received critical acclaim as creative and purposeful entertainment.
More recently, Todd was busy doing relief work in Asia and now makes his living as a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur. His passions are friends, family, cooking, surfing, and making the world a better place.
THE GODS OF BUSINESS is his first book and in it, he maps the intersection of faith and the marketplace. In plain and easy to read language,
Todd analyzes the world's major religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Secular Postmodernism, Shintoism, and Sikhism—and how these religions influence business ethics.
The book’s website is http://www.thegodsofbusiness.com. You can visit the author online at http://www.toddalbertson.com.
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