"Which course of action does the most good and the least harm?" This is one of the questions to be asked by managers while making an ethical decision according to the decision-making model drawn heavily from the thoughts of Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Discuss the nature and purpose of this question.

Badaracco uses texts like Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Sophocles' Antigone and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer to help students understand issues of leadership, decision making and moral judgment. Badaracco also examines these issues in his next book Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature (Harvard Business School Press, April 2006).

Recently, Harvard Business Review graduate editor Diane Coutu met with Badaracco for a varied discussion of what leaders can learn from literature.

apart from being against desegregation, governor of georgia eugene talmadge opposed as well to the work progress administration, an ambitious program of the "new deal" created by president franklin d. roosevelt to overcome the great depression after world war i. talmadge disagreed with welfare spending, job training and organized labor. according to his ideas, he thought the government was spending too much money on this, and he wasn't willing to accept a wage higher than georgia's lower average wage. besides, talmadge strongly opposed to the "new deal" as he thought it had communist ideas.