Brushing Up on Values

G U E S T : Tom and Kate Chappell

Recorded live: Sunday, June 4, 2000, 9:30 am PST

About the Program:
Thirty years ago Tom and Kate Chappell of Tom's of Maine started with $5,000 and a vision to create a natural personal care company. Their vision flourished and their products are used in countless homes all over the country. Hear about their unconventional business tactics and why you don't have to sacrifice your values to succeed in a capitalist society.

Humanizing Capitalism

G U E S T : Michael Novak

Recorded live: Sunday, November 8, 1998, 9:30 am PST

About the Program:
Business is routinely dismissed by its critics as soulless, valueless, and rapacious, but Michael Novak argues that business not only creates social connections, lifts its participants out of poverty, and builds the foundation for democracy, but also can and must be morally uplifting.

The C.E.O. and the Soul

G U E S T : F. Gibson Myers

Recorded live: Sunday, October 18, 1998, 9:30 am PST

About the Program:
The peculiar American institution known as the corporation has grown its own culture, a culture that is built on profits and money -- often to the exclusion of the soul. F. Gibson Myers, chair of a venture capitalist organization in Silicon Valley called the Entrepeneurs' Foundation, discusses the place of one's social conscience within the big-money corporate culture.

The Coming Crisis of Leadership: We Won't Know What Hit Us!

G U E S T : John O'Neil

Recorded live: Sunday, December 7, 1997, 9:30 am PST

About the Program:
Can business success be a spiritual pursuit? John O'Neil, author of Leadership Aikido, discusses the question of leadership in our times and the possibility of personal and professional renewal.