Ron A. Carucci - To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose

Ron A. Carucci has put his finger on what our organizations and our world needs most right nowtruth-telling in a way that people can hear, and closing the gap between who we say we are and what we do. In To Be Honest, Carucci recognizes that serving justice is not only a leaders and an organizations highest purpose, he has given us a well-lit path to meaningful work, joyful community, innovative organizations, and the society we want for our children and theirs.

Jay Coen Gilbert, Co-founder of B Lab and the B Corp movement, and CEO at Imperative 21

A powerful tour de force! To Be Honest is an exceptional compilation of stories, well-researched insights, and truth for leaders to keep the trust of their teams and lead through difficult situations. This is a must-read for every business professional if they want the keys to building trusting, foundational leadership.

Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

The world is clamoring for leadership they can trust and emulate. As our experience of dishonesty has escalated in business, government, and all forms of media, we continue to raise the bar exponentially for honesty in our leaders. In To Be Honest, Carucci provides leaders a treasure trove of practical guidance and inspiring cases to shape their personal leadership, and their organizations, into examples of honesty others will be proud to follow.

Jennifer McCollum, CEO at Linkage

To Be Honest is a fresh look at a concept our world has too long taken for granted. Ron A. Carucci masterfully weaves together inspiring stories with groundbreaking researchyou simply wont come away from this book unchanged.

Dr. Tasha Eurich, New York Times bestselling author of Insight and Bankable Leadership

Honesty with ourselves and in our day-to-day interactions is a force multiplier. But how do we achieve this? Ron A. Carucci brilliantly gives us the frameworks and stories to help us leverage honesty as a superpower to generate hope, trust, and a lasting legacy for ourselves and those around us.

Sanyin Siang, Professor at Duke University, Executive Director at Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business, and winner of Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching and Mentoring Award

Nations, corporations, universities, and communities of all kinds are hungry for greater honesty from their leaders and organizations. However, even the most well-intending among them fall short in delivering truth, justice, and purpose to those they serve. To Be Honest will dramatically change that story. Read this book with your entire team andtogetherchange the world around you. There is so much at stake.

Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup

Leaders, at every organizational level, are increasingly facing the challenges of our complex world where their leadership and character are put to the test. Great leadership today spans well beyond our corporate walls into society and the communities in which we operate. To Be Honest is a powerful guide for any leader who wants to lean into candid, messy conversations confident and prepared, bolster your courage to do the right thing, even when its hard, and live fully in your purpose instead of being asleep at your own switch. You will emerge from your experience of this book more passionate about truth, justice, and purpose than you imagined possible.

Sandy Stelling, Vice President of Strategy, Analytics, and Transformation at Alaska Airlines

There are so many reasons to read Ron A. Caruccis new book, but if I were to name just one, I would say because it will help you see that voicing and enacting your valueseffectivelyis actually possible in so many more ways and contexts than we typically believe it to be. Through positive stories, through compelling research evidence, through inspiriting and accessible prose, Carucci shares hope, commitment, and, importantly, actionable strategies for values-driven leadership. Readers cannot help but come away both more inspired and more morally competent.

Mary C. Gentile, PhD, author of Giving Voice to Values and University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor

A practical, resourceful, and fascinating must-read for any organizational leader. To Be Honest is a thoughtful book rooted in years of psychology and behavioral science research. Supplemented by personal stories and journeys of those who have faced the challenge of what it truly means to be honest and how that principle fundamentally affects behaviors, Ron A. Carucci masterfully created an action-oriented resource to be used in the workplace and beyond. One would be remiss if To Be Honest did not reside in their personal library.

Tiffany A. Archer, JD, Ethics and Compliance Officer at Panasonic Avionics

Our world is starved to move past polarization and wethey behavior, and come together to embrace our differences, and have greater civic discourse on the most important issues of the day. What we need is a guide on how to do this effectivelywith empathy, moral leadership, and the courage to be honest. To Be Honest is an inspirational, compelling compass to guide us on the path to become the best versions of ourselves and the most honest we can be.

Ananya Mukherjee, Provost at University of British Columbia

To Be Honest is an absolute gift of timeless (and timely) wisdom and persuasive empirical evidence. You can read this book to be a better person or to be a better leader. Either way, the world wins. Ron A. Carucci pulls off a wonderful trickhe invites us to get uncomfortable and reflect on the gaps between our aspirations and our behavior, but he does so with warmth and grace, through accessible and, at times, deeply moving stories. Better still, he offers practical guidance to help us build more vibrant organizations through honesty, integrity, justice, and empathy.

Miguel Padr, The Purpose College, The Aspen Institute

For all those who fight every day for a world of greater truth, justice, and purpose. For your unsung heroism, your silent suffering and sacrifice, and your inspiring example, this book is dedicated to honoring your stories so that the rest of us might, in some small way, emulate them.

A portion of this books proceeds will go to

The Equal Justice Initiative

( www.eji.org )

and

Ethical Systems

( www.ethicalsystems.org )

to support the extraordinary work they do in the world.

I am a social psychologist who moved from a psychology department (at the University of Virginia) to a business school (New York Universitys Stern School of Business) in 2011. The bridge I crossed was business ethicsmy entire career has been spent studying moral psychology, and in 2011 the world was still digging out from the rubble of the global financial crisis, which was caused in large part by bad ethics at many financial institutions. I therefore thought this would be easy; all I had to do was apply my research, and the research of others, to corporate life. I thought, Surely when business leaders see the research on how to promote ethics in their organizations, theyll want to apply it. I founded a non-profit collaboration of researchers at EthicalSystems.org to make the academic research accessible and applicable to anyone trying to improve their organization and its ethical culture.