Tell Me What You’re Reading No. 27: Rob Chesnut - Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us
Rob Chesnut discusses his new book Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us, and explains how intentional integrity and intentional inclusion make companies more attractive to employees and to customers, and make such companies out-performers as well.
Rob began his journey in the U.S. Justice Department, including as a federal prosecutor, and then he joined eBay as an early employee and ultimately had responsibility for overseeing all site rules and policies for the eBay global community of over 150 million users. Rob later was General Counsel of LiveOps, Inc. and then of Chegg. Most recently, Rob was General Counsel and then Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb.
Find Rob @ LinkedIn on Twitter @chesnutrob and on his Website
Rob’s Legal Executive Institute discussion with Irene Liu, General Counsel, Checkr: Using Your Platform for Good: Defining “intentional integrity” with Airbnb’s former chief ethics officer
Rob’s Book Recommendations
Give and Take, Adam Grant
Positivity, by Dr. Barbara Fredrickson
What Howard is Reading
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Reviews The New Yorker | The Guardian | Slate
Unorthodox, by Deborah Friedman
Reviews The New York Times | Jewish Book Council | Esquire
Stern, by Bruce Jay Friedman
Reviews The New York Times (obit) | New York Public Library
Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts
Reviews An Antidote to Idiocy in ‘Churchill’, Bret Stephens | The New York Times | The Guardian | The Wall Street Journal | New York Journal of Books | National Review | The Economist | The Spectator | The Times
Andrew Roberts on Churchill (YouTube) | National Churchill Library and Center - GW University (C Span) | AndrewRoberts.net
Saint X, by Alexis Schaitkin
Reviews The New York Times | Rolling Stone | Kirkus Reviews
The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead;
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Los Angeles Times | NPR | Time | The Brooklyn Rail | The Pulitzer Prizes
The Chill, by Scott Carson (Michael Koryta)
Review Kirkus Reviews | The Real Book Spy
An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Atlantic | NPR
These Truths, A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Times | WBUR | The Nation | Los Angeles Review of Books | The Economist | National Review | The Harvard Gazettstonee | The New York Review of Books | New York Magazine | Kirkus Reviews | Chicago Tribune | The Dallas Morning News | Rolling Stone | The New Republic | The Paris Review | American Academy in Berlin | American Indians in Children's Literature
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Reviews The New Yorker | Kirkus Reviews | The New Republic | Slate | Claremont Review of Books
Zinn Education Project | HowardZinn.org
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Reviews The Atlantic | The New York Times | The Guardian | Kirkus Reviews
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Reviews The Guardian | The Guardian | The New York Times | WBUR | NPR
… and, of course, Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us, by Rob Chesnut
Thanks to my friends for recommending so many of the books I refer to above. Kate Karas, of course, for introducing me to Rob; Nora Gross for the recommendation and the book club discussion of White Fragility; David Stiepleman for recommending Stern and These Truths; David Levine, who both recommended and gifted to me Churchill: Walking With Destiny; Keith Schaitkin, who brought to my attention his daughter’s great debut novel, Saint X; Roseanne Needleman, who brought to my attention her son in law’s The Uninhabitable Earth; Marlene Lippman who arranged for me to have an advance copy of The Nickle Boys, and my daughter Melanie, a reading companion for the last several decades, who highly recommended An American Marriage.
