The Definitive Guide to Building a Positive Corporate Culture

The Manager’s Book of Decencies shows how to use small changes to massive effect,
enabling managers to…

  • Create a positive work environment that encourages responsibility and rewards
    innovation
  • Boost performance in the office
  • Attract superstar performers based on your company’s reputation as a terrific
    place to work
  • Limit employee turnover
  • Add simple, yet crucial, personal touches to daily employee interactions
  • Protect the company from ethical behavior or employee misconduct

The Manager’s Book of Decencies delivers a top-to-bottom approach to creating the
kind of positive corporate culture which has shown time and again to improve
performance, attract and retain top talent, promote well-behaved organizations, and
advance a vision of shared values.  This is crucial reading for every manager.

There is a philosophy of doing business that goes beyond the transfer of goods and
services.  It calls for a transfer of values which goes by the name of small decencies.    

It’s time for managers to take back the workplace and create a positive, cooperative
company culture.

It’s time for all employees to feel instantly successful when they walk in the doors.

This book shows the way.

Available everywhere books are sold.
"The Manager's Book of Decencies is worth twice the price for the title alone! It is a beautiful book. 'Simple' and
profound. Almost the only book on the subject you need to read."
Tom Peters

"Beyond strategic and moral leadership, our organizations require another dimension. If you want to build positive
corporate cultures, on every level, from top to bottom, my advice is to read Steve Harrison’s concrete examples of small
decencies.”
—Wolfgang Clement, German federal minister of the Economy 2002-2005,state premier of North Rhine-
Westphalia 1998-2002

“An inspiring book guaranteed to raise people’s confidence that their small
decent gestures will have a notable impact on the well-being of others and
the quality of the workplace. Steve Harrison has done a masterful job of
uncovering the value of everyday goodness.”
—Amy Lyman, cofounder and Chair, The Great Place to Work Institute
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    The Manager's Book of Decencies
    How Small Gesture Build Great Companies