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Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
By David Korten
Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression.
However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do
nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. It's like
treating cancer with a bandage. Korten identifies the deeper sources of
the failure: Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of
creating "wealth" without producing anything of real value: phantom
wealth. Our hope lies not with Wall Street, Korten argues, but with
Main Street, which creates real wealth from real resources to meet real
needs. He outlines an agenda to create a new economy-- locally based,
community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all, not
simply increasing profits.
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All Rise
By Robert Fuller
Educator and humanitarian Fuller follows up his Somebodies and Nobodies with this stimulating, scattershot manifesto on the fight against "rankism," or the abuse of power based on rank. While the notion subsumes racism, sexism and class inequality, rankism also addresses the thousand daily insults inflicted by playground bullies, abusive bosses, officious bureaucrats, condescending academics and snobs that everyone suffers in a hierarchical, status-conscious society. Fuller's program for a "dignitarian society" emphasizes fine-grained reform of institutions and interpersonal relations, with lots of committee meetings and frank dialogues with rankist reprobates. A physicist by training, Fuller advances a deliberately vague, liberalish policy agenda, featuring schemes for conducting "dignity impact studies before authorizing new uses of power.
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Alivelihood
By Horst Rechelbacher
In Alivelihood, Horst shares his extraordinary and unusual success story and the valuable lessons he learned along the way. From his mother, an Austrian herbalist, he learned the art of extracting oils and essences from plants. From Swami Rama of the Himalayas, he learned the ancient science of Ayurveda and mind/body medicine. From the shamans and tribes of the rainforest, he learned how to work in partnership with nature.
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The Answer to How is Yes
By Peter Block
People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and improvement efforts, reinforced by most of the literature...
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Appreciative Inquiry
By David Cooperrider
Written by the originators and leaders of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement itself, this short, practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities that signal "something different is happening this time." That difference systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, and their communities more adaptive and more effective. AI, a theory of collaborative change, erases the winner/loser paradigm in favor of coordinated actions and closer relationships that lead to solutions at once simpler and more effective.
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The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching
By Howard Morgan, Phil Harkins, and Marshall Goldsmith
Leadership coaching has become vitally important to todays most successful businesses. The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching is a landmark resource that presents a variety of perspectives and best practices from todays top executive coaches. It provides valuable guidance on exactly what the best coaches are now doing to get the most out of leaders, for now and into the future.
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The Art of Business
By Raymond Yeh
Discover how modern business giants such as Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Gordon Moore of Intel, and Earl Bakken of Medtronic have developed enterprises with soul by applying the five strategic arts of possibility, timing, leverage, mastery, and leadership outlined by the ancient strategist Sun Tzu in The Art of War.
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Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at Work
By Eric Klein and John Izzo
Eric Klein and John Izzo, a yogi and a minister who are also business consultants, mix Eastern and Western ideas to suggest new ways to develop a more motivated and committed workforce. They maintain that creativity, productivity, innovation and inspiration each stimulate different facets of a company's "soul," and show how leaders can help those around them attain fulfillment while simultaneously positioning their firms for increased success.
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Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness
By Duane Elgin
Awakening Earth argues that we are now collectively poised for a major species shift. If the first stages of human awakening involved separating ourselves from nature, developing our sense of autonomy as a species and discovering our ability for remaking the world, the next stages of evolution will require reintegrating ourselves with nature, exploring our deep bonding with one another and with the cosmos and developing our capacity to act in harmony with the universe.
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Awakening The Leader Within
By Kevin Cashman
In the form of a business fable, this book draws on Cashman's renowned executive coaching techniques to lead the reader to self-discovery, based on the premise that one must grow the person in order to grow the leader.
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Behind Closed Doors
By Esther Derby
Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers---all in private. It's hard to learn management by example.
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Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change
By Louis Carter, David Ulrich, and Marshall Goldsmith
This book is a virtual encyclopedia of practical case studies, tools, and insights on how top companies achieve lasting results-driven leadership development and organizational change. It's well organized for quick reference and also well researched for in-depth study.
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The Big Book of Small Business
By Tom Gegax
A glaring hole in the business bookshelf is finally filled. Until now, there wasn't a fingertip resource for handling everything that the business day throws at you. Enter Tom Gegax's The Big Book of Small Business, a soup-to-nuts management guide that stands in stark contrast to the rows of magic-bullet.
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Biocircuits
By Leslie Patten
Leslie began her career in the cultural sector as a historical researcher for the Niagara Parks Commission. She joined the Royal Ontario Museum in 1977 and held various positions of increasing responsibility in the spheres of exhibits and public programs. From 1991 to 1993 she was an independent consultant collaborating with various firms and associates on selected museum and cultural projects.
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The Blind Men and the Elephant
By David Schmaltz
Using the "blind men and the elephant" metaphor, this useful guide explains how a "follow the leader" approach creates troubled projects by pulling attention from the real source of power and authority - the individual. Using real-world stories, it shows how anyone can transform a fuzzy project assignment into a meaningful, satisfying experience..
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The Book of Agreement
By Stewart Levine
The conflicts most people get into are avoidable. Conflict develops because of differing expectations about what working with others will produce. Differences arise because these expectations have not been made explicit to everyone. People fail to make their expectations explicit because they never learned how. The Book of Agreement provides a clear path through the minefields of conflict, to shared expectations. Levine discusses ten powerful tools for creating successful agreements together. These tools help both parties clarify expectations, establish standards, and build partnership.
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Bringing Your Soul to Work
By Cheryl Peppers
Employees today are actively searching for more meaning in the workplace, for work that resonates with their being. How does one dare yearn for something more, when so many workplaces seem aligned solely with financial survival and profit making? How do we get work done amidst the demands and tugs.
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Building a Values-Driven Organization
By Richard Barrett
Whether you are about to start your cultural transformation or have been working on it for some time, this book will give you a lot of practical and useful tips on how to continue your journey. This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand and manage successful cultural transformation.
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Building Team Spirit
By Barry Heermann
Here's a resource versatile enough to inspire new teams and boost the morale of existing ones. Building Team Spirit provides 50 energizing experiences-complete with reproducible participant handouts-that build group cohesiveness, enthusiasm, and trust. Field-tested at AT&T, NCR, General Motors, and other organizations, the book's unique Team Spirit approach fosters a deeper sense of interconnectedness among team members, enables them to resolve group problems, and uses guided experiences to prime teams for peak performance.
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Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture
By Christina Baldwin
In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.
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Capitalism 3.0
By Peter Barnes
"In Capitalism 3.0, Peter Barnes makes the case for the commons in a straightforward and unsentimental way. It's an indispensable book on a critical topic."
-Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature
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The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair
By Christina Baldwin, Margaret Wheatley and Ann Linnea
This book lays out the structure of circle conversation, based on the
original work of the co-authors who have studied and standardized the
essential elements that constitute circle practice. It takes readers
through a circle visual (the Components of Circle) and presents both
structure and story so that readers understand how these elements come
into play and how they interrelate and interact. It also embeds circle
process experience in stories and examples drawing on the authors' 15
years of experience as global thought leaders and originators of this
form, and it presents detailed instructions and suggestions for getting
started, setting goals, and solving conflicts.
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Claiming Your Place at the Fire
By Richard Leider
Drawing on what Leider learned while sitting around the fire with tribal elders in Tanzania, he refers to his readers as "new elders," meaning people "who never stop reinventing themselves." This isn't a self-help book, exactly: it doesn't offer advice on activities for elders or where to retire. It is a guide to an internal, spiritual search for the purpose of one's older years.
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Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches
By Marshall Goldsmith
This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process. This thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes in coaching practices, includes well-researched best practices, and provides additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world.
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Community: The Structure of Belonging
By Peter Block
Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our
communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations,
churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own
worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but
end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential
contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if
not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it
together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many
success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What
Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the
exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community
built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are
involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates
an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of
us can do to make that happen.
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Confessions of an Accidental Businessman
By James Autry
James Autry's Confessions of an Accidental Businessman recounts his inspirational climb from childhood struggle to installation as a Fortune 500 executive. In his 31 years at magazine publisher Meredith Corporation, Autry juggled his own ambitions with a desire to be a fair and sensitive leader. His honest and open memoir exposes the good as well as the bad and paints an intriguing picture of the changes wrought in corporate America during his tenure.
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Consulting on the Inside
By Bev Scott
This is a refreshing book to read because it provides real life scenarios regarding issues and dilemmas faced by internal organization development professionals in a very straightforward and open manner. The combination of personal anecdotes from former internal consultants with fundamental organization development theory provides internal consultants "at all levels" a solid resource for practicing their work.
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Cool Mind, Warm Heart
By Steve Roberts
Cool Mind Warm Heart is a classic in the spirit of Be Here Now and The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment....playful, kind, fiery, and deep. If His Holiness the Dalai Lama married Tom Robbins, their love child might write this book - a celebration of the most inspiring (and terrifying) possibility the world has ever known: Everything is a Gift!
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Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac
By Eric Utne
For urbanites surrounded by towering skyscrapers, traffic jams, and swarms of people, nature can be difficult to find. City life can make people feel disconnected from nature, making it all the more important to find ways to connect with nature every day.
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A Course of Love
By Mari Perron
Like Helen Schucman of A Course in Miracles, Mari Perron followed a process of inner dictation whose source was Jesus. The result of that channeling -- this series of teachings -- continually returns to a central theme: the heart knows more than the mind. The book challenges the idea that people are isolated individuals, arguing that everyone is integrally connected with each other and with the universe and that answers lie in union rather than separation.
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Creativity in Business
By Michael Ray
This exploration of innovative thinking in companies of all kinds shows us how creativity in business can enrich us, and those who work with us.
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Daily Miracles
By Alan Briskin
Daily Miracles, with its powerful vignettes, annotations, and masterful photography is both inspired and inspiring. It shows how healing really happens. Good care involves good systems and good education, of course, and yet is based on good people who go an extra mile to help or to hold a hand or to pay attention to intuition or to think deeply and connect with patients, with their own soul, and with each other.
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Dealing with Tough Stuff: Pråctical Wisdom for Running a Values-Driven Business
By Margot Fraser and Lisa Lorimer
Through decades of running businesses, Lisa, Margot and the case-study
interviewees included here have learned about dealing with 'the
tough-stuff'. The narrators and contributors provide guidance and
counsel and relate true, sometimes shocking, stories about their
companies that exemplify the hardships other entrepreneurs will
encounter. Because the contributors are diverse leaders from various
sectors and industries the book is useful to new, existing and shifting
entrepreneurs. It follows the trajectories of successful business
leaders throughout the nation who have faced a host of problems and
survived. Here is a book that readers can look to for affirmation, hope
and tools.
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Designing Effective Organizations: Traditional and Transformational Views
By David Banner
Providing a distinctive voice, Designing Effective Organizations is the new basic text for the undergraduate or MBA-level course on organization theory. Although it contains the same comprehensive topical coverage as the leading traditional organization theory texts, Designing Effective Organizations is definitely not a clone of the others in the field. David K. Banner and T. Elaine Gagné develop a transformational perspective--which sees the world of the organization as a projection of each organizational member's consciousness--as opposed to the traditional rational perspective. They thoroughly cover all the basics, but in a manner that reflects today's changing management paradigms.
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Dialogue at Work
By Glenna Gerard
Glenna Gerard and Linda Ellinor show how dialogue differs from conversational forms such as discussion or debate by going beyond a simple exchange of information. Dialogue can help teams build shared vision, work creatively with diverse perspectives, and forge alignment and trust during times of change.
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Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation
By Glenna Gerard
In the context of contemporary business, the ancient art of "dialogue" refers to a thoroughly modern communications practice that can bridge diversity and forge cooperation in virtually any kind of organization. Linda Ellinor and Glenna Gerard, consultants and trainers who focus on issues such as communication and collaboration, contend that informed use of the process can measurably enhance creativity and boost productivity.
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Distracted: The Erosin of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
By Maggie Jackson
In this richly detailed and passionately argued book, Jackson (What's Happening to Home?)
warns that modern society's inability to focus heralds an impending
Dark Age—an era historically characterized by the decline of a
civilization amid abundance and technological advancement. Jackson
posits that our near-religious allegiance to a constant state of motion
and addiction to multitasking are eroding our capacity for deep,
sustained, perceptive attention—the building block of intimacy, wisdom
and cultural progress and stunting society's ability to comprehend
what's relevant and permanent. The author provides a lively historical
survey of attention, drawing upon philosophy, the impact of scientific
innovations and her own experiences to investigate the possible genetic
and psychological roots of distraction.
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Diversity Toolkit
By William Sonnonschein
The diverse workforce is not only the future; it is here and now. And, with the help of The Diversity Toolkit, managers of all levels can learn easily to adapt and be sensitive to the new workforce realities. The "diversity toolkit" features easy-to-use tips for improving communications skills.
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Divine Daughters
By Rachel Bagby
A pain-filled autobiography by vocal artist, and composer Bagby. A former Stanford Law student, the author left school shortly before graduation to find herself. She met singer Bobby McFerrin at one of his concerts and then auditioned for his master class, recording her audition tape on an answering machine because she had no studio access or equipment. Through McFerrin, Bagby began singing with a women's group called Voicestra, which continues to sustain her both professionally and personally. She interweaves her autobiographical text with lyrics and music from her own compositions, adding flavor to an intensely personal story. Her music emerges from the childhood traumas of dealing with an alcoholic and heroin-addicted father, charming one moment and violent the next; of always playing second fiddle to her musically gifted brother, Nelson; of feeling second-best because she was a daughter and not a son; and of facing racism in educational institutions.
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Driven By Wealth
By Julie Maloney and Renee Moorefield
Driven by Wellth, the first book by authors and Wisdom Works co-founders Julie Maloney and Renee Moorefield, is now available. It provides a comprehensive and articulate case for 21st Century Leadership and offers a model for individuals to develop themselves and their wellth-driven vision. From the Foreword: "It is a critical time to talk about leadership. This is more than the evolution of a business model; the health of the planet hangs in the balance. The central question of Driven by Wellth is both simple and profound: How can success be achieved and sustained in a healthy manner?
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Earthdance
By Elisabet Sahtouris
An evolution biologist's story of planet Earth and its people from origins to a sustainable future. Past patterns of biological evolution offers clues to the natural process of globalization.
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Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
By Barbara Marx Hubbard
Within each of us awaits the "Universal Human," a state of expanded consciousness that can heal us and our planet, which Hubbard encourages us to develop through stories, meditations, and deep wisdom.
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The Emotional Revolution
By Norman Rosenthal
Dr. Norman Rosenthal has compiled an astonishing amount of cutting edge clinical research and history, combined this information with his clinical expertise, and morphed it into a comprehensible book loaded with astute insights and practical advice you can use every day.
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The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace
By Cary Cherniss
The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace is an engaging attempt to connect fundamental research on emotions and human performance to day-to-day workplace challenges. This is a volume that should be on the bookshelf of every HR professional.
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Emotions at Work
By Faith Ralston
Emotions at Work is a useful compass to guide managers through the unknown and sometimes volatile territory of organizational politics and human emotions. This book is just what leaders need to enhance communication and teamwork.
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The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work
By Peter Block
Block presents ways to treat all members of the organization as entrepreneurs so that employees feel that their units are their own businesses and that they, and they alone, are in the process of creating an organization of their own choosing. Managers and other employees who pick up The Empowered Manager won't just be reading about management. They'll be harvesting timeless tips from a master of business thinking. And they'll be uncovering a road map that leads to enhanced effectiveness and job satisfaction.
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The E.Q. Edge
By Steven Stein
The EQ Edge, by Steven J. Stein and Howard E. Book, shows you how the dynamic of emotional intelligence works. By understanding EQ, you can build more meaningful relationships, boost your confidence and optimism, and respond to challenges with enthusiasm, all of which are essential ingredients of success.
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Essentials of Management
By Gareth Jones
Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of "Making It Real" for students. As a team, they are uniquely qualified to write about the organizational challenges facing today's managers. No other author team in the management discipline matches their combined research and text-writing.
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Evolve Your Brain
By Dr. Joe Dispenza, D.C.
Every time we think a thought or feel an emotion, the brain sends chemicals throughout the body that reproduce that feeling, often giving us a physical reaction. Through prolonged repetition, self-limiting thoughts and feelings can become habitual, producing mindsets such as unworthiness and attracting negative experiences, yet we can still crave them, even when they don't feel good. But all this can change, and Joe Dispenza will show you how to do it.
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Fabled Service
By Betsy Sanders
In Fabled Service: Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Outcomes, Sanders outlines the fundamentals for others who would like to achieve the legendary customer-friendly status that is widely accorded her former employer. The outcome, she stresses, is service that is so effective that it actually influences the decisions of shoppers.
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Fearproof Your Life: How to THRIVE in a World Addicted to Fear
By Joe Bailey
Throughout time, we have sought peace and safety by trying to out-guess
the unknown. We have tried to prepare for the unexpected and the
apparitions of our minds. In an age of 24-hour cable news, when we can
stay glued to the latest terrorist attack or natural disaster, the next
epidemic, and what the pundits tell us we should be afraid of, our
efforts to control the unknown and keep ourselves safe have led to a
collective as well as a personal sensation of fear. We have become addicted to fear.
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Finding Our Way
By Margaret Wheatley
Though management expert Margaret Wheatley works with an unusually broad variety of clients from Fortune 100 CEOs to ministers, she points out that they all struggle to maintain integrity, humanity, and effectiveness in a relentlessly fast-paced, technology-driven world.
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Finding Work that Matters
By Mark Albion
"Is it possible to find or create work with purpose and passion - and still earn a good living?" For years, Professor Mark Albion - Harvard Business School wunderkind, entrepreneur, and Fortune 500 consultant - asked himself this question. Then, in 1988, Albion quit his job...and began a life of service to others. On Finding Work That Matters, "Dr. Mark" invites you to take that same leap of faith.
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Fish!
By John Christensen
Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked to engineer a turnaround of her company's troubled operations department, a group that authors Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen describe as a "toxic energy dump."
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Fish! Tales
By John Christensen
Fish! Tales is Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul's follow-up to Fish!-their enormously popular fable that draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! Tales the authors show how these lessons were put into practice at businesses both big and small
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Fish! Sticks
By John Christensen
In this third installment in the popular Fish! series, the authors examine change as a necessary, ongoing process that should never stop--at least not if one wants to keep the workplace vital and fully alive. Using a fictitious sushi restaurant as an example, this fable examines the three principles that Lundin, Christensen, and Paul believe are necessary for continuing success.
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Fish! For Life
By John Christensen
FISH! for Life shows readers how to confront life's issues and to reach their full potential. With advice on such life issues as weight loss, personal finance, and relationships, the book is a road map for achieving personal happiness and well-being in all areas of life. After all, life shouldn't be work.
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Five Questions that Change Everything: Life Lessons at Work
By John Scherer
What turns an experience into a learning opportunity? It has to do with
your attitude, the way you approach the experience. The only
requirement is that you seek the lesson in the experience. And the more
you need that lesson, the more likely it is to show up in your everyday
experiences through your relationships. If you could start to see your
entire life - relationships, work, recreation, and devotional practice
- as a classroom, then all the stuff that happens to you every day
could be seen as grist for your learning mill, and could become the
curriculum for your development course you are taking in this life. To
know yourself allows you to know every other human.
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The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary
By Angeles Arrien
A leading expert on native spirituality and shamanism reveals the four
archetypal principles of the Native American medicine wheel and how
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FrameShifting: A Path to Wholeness
By David Banner
Ever wonder why certain events allow you to expand your consciousness or alter who you think you are beyond what you normally experience?
Through the power of Frameshifting, I'll show you how you can have access to this experience at any time, without adopting, changing, or fixing your beliefs! Along the way, I share with you personal experiences I've had that triggered this shift in me. With the tools provided in this book, you can have these shifts too.
- Discover unspoken limiting beliefs
- Achieve higher stages of consciousness
- Break free from the boundaries of ego
- Understand people in your life empathically
- Experience the pure joy of spiritual growth
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From Science to God
By Peter Russell
Russell, a "scientist at heart," seems somewhat oversold as a physicist, although his undergraduate work at Cambridge brought him into Steven Hawking's office on occasion. But his curiosity about the mystery of consciousness is real enough, leading him from a fascination with TM in his student days to studies in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to a successful career as a corporate consultant on meditation, creativity and personal development.
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Getting to Resolution
By Stewart Levince
What is the greatest impediment to productive and satisfying business and personal relationships? According to empowerment guru Stewart Levine, it's inadequate conflict resolution. Levine's seven- step model integrates two skills essential for success - collaboration and conflict resolution - and emphasizes the importance of a shift in attitude, assumptions, and approaches when facing a problem.
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Getting to the Better Future
By John Renesch
John Renesch's book makes his personal journey into the future, a journey that has meaning and relevance for all of us. He courageously weaves his personal journey into the dynamic pattern of global economic change. This dance between inner and outer realities carries us into the future.
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Going International
By Lewis Brown Griggs
The purpose of this book is to instruct American businesspeople in the niceties of dealing with their counterparts in foreign lands. The authors present a manual of tactics that will enhance the possibility of successful dealings and negotiations. In addition to discussing marketing, negotiating, communicating, and the like, they offer helpful advice on business and social etiquette, managing personal and family life, and returning to the States.
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The Grace of Ordinary Days
By Bernie Saunders
Contemplative poetry and stunning flower photography are woven together by a narrative thread in two voices. Mother and son retell their versions of memories from a shared past and how each perceived them differently. The stories shed light and perspective that leads to understanding and forgiveness. "The Grace of Ordinary Days" can help us to love better, and remind us of our own beauty, truth and passion.
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
By Van Jones
As the "ecological crisis nears the boiling point," human rights
activist and environmental leader Jones (president of the national
organization Green For All) lays out a visionary, meticulous and
practical explanation of the two major challenges the U.S. currently
faces-massive socioeconomic inequality and imminent ecological
catastrophe-and how the current third wave of environmentalism, the
"investment" wave, can solve both. If industry players want to take
advantage of growing consumer demand for green solutions, they'll have
to follow principles of inclusiveness as well as conservation and
inventiveness to create "broad opportunity and shared prosperity" for
citizens at all levels of society.
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Healing the Rift: Bridging the Gap Between Science & Spirituality
By Leo Kim
Science attempts to explain the world without a creator, spirit or
design, constantly seeking new information with which to test its
theories. Spirituality holds that the most important aspects of the
world are beyond human comprehension. It labels this realm "spirit,"
"soul," and "God." Who is right? Are humans simply a cluster of cells
that eventually dies? Is there a greater plan? In his new book, Leo Kim
chronicles his metaphysical and scientific journey and reveals how
recent scientific breakthroughs led him to the belief that the world is
a blending of mind and spirit.
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Heart Seeds
By Windeagle
Heart Seeds is filled with authentic stories from native oral tradition. he book weaves ancient stories and ancient wisdom into a current-day spiritual quest. The pace and style of the book encourage reflection and yield a surprising comfort and hope. Heart Seeds would be enjoyed by those on various spiritual paths, as well as readers who would like to understand more about indigenous cultures and wisdom philosophies.
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A Hidden Wholeness
By Parker Palmer
Palmer (The Courage to Teach) seeks to help us "rejoin soul and role," so that individuals and communities can be healed from the ravages of consumerism, injustice and violence. No small task, yet in classic Palmer style, this mission is fleshed out with stories, poems, personal confessions and a plan -- concrete steps for creating "circles of trust" where honest, open sharing allows each person's "inner teacher" to show up.
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The Highest Goal
By Michael Ray
With his revolutionary and refreshing insights, Ray helps you discover and pursue your highest goal. The Highest Goal shows all of us how we can achieve a meaningful and fulfilled life from our highest aspects.
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How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want
By Marilyn Tam
In How To Use What You've Got To Get What You Want, Marilyn Tam shares the philosophy that has taken her to the pinnacle of personal and professional success. In her work and life, Marilyn lives by four simple principles: tell the truth all the time (it's easier), make others your partner in your success (work from common ground), make big mistakes (big mistakes are the byproduct of making big strides), and die by your own sword.
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