The modern world has produced a chasm between the perception based logic and reasoning of man and the technological force of our age. This book offers a vision to facilitate a more coherent existence, a more stable future.

Dialogue provides practical guidelines for one of the essential elements of true partnership--learning how to talk together in honest and effective ways. Reveals how problems between managers and employees, and between companies or divisions within a larger corporation, stem from an inability to conduct a successful dialogue.

"This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life."- Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction]Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to ...

This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict—that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management." But he refuses to be drawn into impractica...

How leaders think determines what leaders do and how they do it. This book explores in depth how the best leaders think. The more you can think like the best leaders think, the more you can perform like the best leaders perform. The twelve chapters in this intriguing yet practical book range from Being Up to Something to Knowing What you Need to Knowto Imagination & Ingenuityto Performing Leadershipand People-Making. Throughout, these are rich and rare perspectives. You will go back again ...

Science as well as spiritualism says, 'Self', this unputdownable sense of 'I' is the greatest mysticism. Still, people are madly in never-ending pursuits of 'self-indulgence' and 'I-Centric' gratifications and attainments. Worse, there is this calamitous contemporaneous prescription of 'Be Yourself', as if 'Self' is the definitive genius of everythingness! Worst, this viscerality is being invoked in celebrity-mode, market-mounted 'I-Iconism' as ultimate empowerment. The progenies of 'Be Yo...

Explore the nature of modern leadershipIn Confronting Our Freedom, a team of dedicated leadership coaches delivers an exciting and engaging new take on management and leadership. Drawing on recent events in the market and in the world, including the Great Resignation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread digital transformation, the authors invite you to reimagine ideas of freedom and accountability in the context of work. You’ll explore how freedom of act...

Now, for the first time ever, and only for a limited time, you can get this value-priced, limited edition boxed set.Self Motivation Box Set includes two bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House:Book #1Finding Happiness in an Overstressed WorldIn our plugged-in, fast-paced world we've lost touch with the tools we need to overcome loneliness, stress and problems - the skills that permit us to truly FEEL happy and pass that feeling on to others.This...

Like most revolutionaries, I have a dream: of genuine empathy between people -- as to truly see through someone else’s eyes, and discover all it can teach us.Also in the revolutionary spirit, I have a manifesto, presented as the following essay.

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about persuasive communication with this practical guide.Communicating persuasively without being manipulative is an art form, and while everybody is capable of mastering this technique, it does take practice and persistence to get it right. This guide will give you all the tools you need to develop your capacity to convince in both a professional and personal environment, as well as ...

Creating Community: Finding Meaning in the Place We Live."This is the book I wish I had when I walked into the west side, inner city of Chicago for my first experience in an intentional effort to create community." George West"This is the book we ALL need as community development practitioners. Those on the journey of creating community will find the reflections, stories, and advice extremely valuable. It can be used as an instructional guide, or as a mirror to dee...

"This is a book about how we invent ourselves and our cultures by how we explain things. We invent our explanations, and then they invent us. It is a book about how we create our virtual worlds – the habitat of our minds – by how we explain things. It is a book about how our explanations get embedded in the stories we tell and ingest – from gossip to advertising to the pernicious “social media.” It is a book about how everything we say or do or have is an explanation. Whatever we say or do...