Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street

Praise For Stewardship

"This is a powerful and moving book that deserves to be widely read.The idea of stewardship captures powerfully what is needed today.I just hope the financial industry listens."
--Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times, and author, Fool's Gold

"When I was asked by a good friend to read John Taft's manuscript with the possibility of providing a comment about it, I groaned at the prospect of reading another dreary, self-justificatory treatise. I could not have been more wrong. Mr. Taft draws on his considerable experience in the financial industry to produce an essay that is thoughtful, constructive, and, in a word I rarely get to use in the context of the financial crisis, inspiring. I am glad to recommend it."
--Barney Frank, Congressman (D-MA)

"John Taft demystifies the complex inner workings of the financial services industry. He provides a simple, but elegant, approach to restoring trust and confidence in the U.S. financial services markets."
--Ron James, President and CEO, Center for Ethical Business Cultures

"Like his father and grandfather and great grandfather before him, John is another Taft who understands we are all stewards and with that comes responsibility. Stewardship is not just a book for Wall Street. It's a book for you and me."
--Doug Lennick, coauthor, Moral Intelligence

"Timely, well-argued, deeply humane. Taft is the sort of leader financeneeds as it emerges from the crisis."
--Matthew Bishop, New York Bureau Chief, The Economist and coauthor, The Road from Ruin