Bruce Weinstein is an American ethicist who writes about ethics, character, and leadership for Fortune. He also writes for and is on the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) editorial board. Much of Weinstein's work focuses on business leaders, members of professional trade associations, and students who appreciate ethics' role in everyday life. This work often is through interactive keynote addresses to corporations, universities, and other organizations. Early publications Weinstein published his first book in 1985 at 25 while a graduate student at Georgetown University. Ethics in the Hospital Setting contains the papers presented at the first state conference devoted to the issue of what was then called hospital ethics committees, now known as institutional ethics committees. Weinstein is credited as the editor of the volume. Portions of Weinstein's doctoral dissertation, The Possibility of Ethical Expertise (Georgetown University, 1989), were edited and published as the articles What is an Expert? and The Possibility of Ethical Expertise. Weinstein's second book as editor, Dental Ethics, is a collection of articles co-authored by ethicists and dentists. His third book as editor, Ethical Issues in Pharmacy, contains essays co-authored by ethicists and pharmacists. Later publications What Should I Do: 4 Simple Steps to Making Better Decisions in Everyday Life. His first book in this project was, "What Should I Do: 4 Simple Steps to Making Better Decisions in Everyday Life." He applied the four-step protocol used by institutional ethics committees to ethical issues that people outside of health care face. This protocol is: Get the facts. Identify the values at stake. Find the options available to you. Test the options and choose the best one, based steps 1 and 2. The book was a Finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award. Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good Weinstein's next book was published in 2005 by Emmis Books, a division of Emmis Communications. "Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good," was an application of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress's "Principles of Biomedical Ethics." The basis of the Beauchamp/Childress work is principlism, an ethical framework that uses principles as the foundation for ethical decision making. The four principles that form the core of the Beauchamp/Childress work are: Respect for autonomy Nonmaleficence Beneficence (ethics) Justice Weinstein's work simplifies the principles, so that, for example, the principle of nonmaleficence becomes "do no harm", and the principle of beneficence becomes "make things better." Weinstein also