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Read this book and you’ll better understand how four specific tenets—higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management—can help build strong businesses, move capitalism closer to its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us.
Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top. The time for action is running short.
Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. This fascinating, provocative new book, provides an optimistic road map for the future.
Barry Oshry shows how we can transform “system blindness” into “system sight,” enabling us to live and work together in productive partnership.
The business world is constantly transforming. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change.
Doug’s work combines many of the things I was already exploring (mindfulness, neuroscience. adult development) with other domains I’d never heard of (somatic work, polarity management, and more ) in a way that was both fresh and familiar.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we’re both more satisfied and more productive—on the job and off.
Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.
The leadership pipeline –the internal strategy to grow leaders – in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Find out how you can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace.
We have acquired a lot of standards for what we think is appropriate or inappropriate behavior. Consequently, sometimes when we are striving to develop a new skill, it is not uncommon to find ourselves in unproductive moods that may block us from continuing to learn.
Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author George Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives.
With global economies transforming at record speed, we are largely unprepared for the service demands we face day and night from around the world. With service so much a part of our daily lives, both in and outside the workplace, why aren’t we doing it better?
Successful leaders build and maintain productive, mutually-beneficial relationships – inside and outside of their organizations. They purposefully shape workplace culture that retains talent, cultivates innovation and supports the organization’s goals.
In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? How can it be regained once it has been broken?
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.
“The fun part is creating a new future. But that future cannot be realized without implementation. A great orientation around what it takes to execute your most important aims. I appreciate the simplicity of the principles and feel it is a good grounding in how to think about execution.“
“For anyone who runs a professional service firm. Simple distinctions that had me look at my own practice in a totally new way. I have used this book as a mentor for organizational structure, pricing models, operations, branding and more. ” — Kari Granger
This is a special recommendation for our clients with young children, though the ideas here are applicable to any age. Discover the amazing things that happen when you nurture your bright ideas, face your problems, and take bold chances.
Transitions takes readers step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced, offering an elegant, simple, yet profoundly insightful roadmap to navigate change and move into a hopeful future.
