Higher Ground

Companies are now judged on positions they once never had to take, by employees, customers and regulators at the same time. Alison Taylor writes for leaders who must decide inside that scrutiny without retreating into slogans. Higher Ground works through the practical questions: which stakeholder demands deserve a response, how ethical commitments survive contact with quarterly pressure, what a corporate culture actually rewards, and where compliance stops being enough. Taylor draws on research and advisory experience, treating ethics as an operating problem rather than a communications exercise. Practical ground covered: • Frameworks for ethical decisions under commercial pressure • Stakeholder expectations, culture and organisational trust • Argues past compliance checklists toward workable judgement • Published by Harvard Business Review Press Written for executives, founders and managers thinking about corporate responsibility, available from Boipoka.