Download or read book Enlightened Business written by Joolz Lewis and published by SRA Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightened Business offers a clear roadmap of strategies and tools that address day-to-day challenges in the workplace today. With varied examples and exercises it shows how timeless spiritual principles are key differentiators in creating high-perform.
Download or read book The Business of Enlightenment written by Robert DARNTON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopedie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization. In tracing the publishing story of Diderot's Encyclopedie, Darnton uses new sources--the papers of eighteenth-century publishers--that allow him to respond firmly to a set of problems long vexing historians. He shows how the material basis of literature and the technology of its production affected the substance and diffusion of ideas. He fully explores the workings of the literary market place, including the roles of publishers, book dealers, traveling salesmen, and other intermediaries in cultural communication. How publishing functioned as a business, and how it fit into the political as well as the economic systems of prerevolutionary Europe are set forth. The making of books touched on this vast range of activities because books were products of artisanal labor, objects of economic exchange, vehicles of ideas, and elements in political and religious conflict. The ways ideas traveled in early modern Europe, the level of penetration of Enlightenment ideas in the society of the Old Regime, and the connections between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution are brilliantly treated by Darnton. In doing so he unearths a double paradox. It was the upper orders in society rather than the industrial bourgeoisie or the lower classes that first shook off archaic beliefs and took up Enlightenment ideas. And the state, which initially had suppressed those ideas, ultimately came to favor them. Yet at this high point in the diffusion and legitimation of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution erupted, destroying the social and political order in which the Enlightenment had flourished. Never again will the contours of the Enlightenment be drawn without reference to this work. Darnton has written an indispensable book for historians of modern Europe.
Download or read book The Enlightened Capitalists written by James O'Toole and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices—from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs Anita Roddick and Tom Chappell. Today’s business leaders are increasingly pressured by citizens, consumers, and government officials to address urgent social and environmental issues. Although some corporate executives remain deaf to such calls, over the last two centuries, a handful of business leaders in America and Britain have attempted to create business organizations that were both profitable and socially responsible. In The Enlightened Capitalists, James O’Toole tells the largely forgotten stories of men and women who adopted forward-thinking business practices designed to serve the needs of their employees, customers, communities, and the natural environment. They wanted to prove that executives didn’t have to make trade-offs between profit and virtue. Combining a wealth of research and vivid storytelling, O’Toole brings life to historical figures like William Lever, the inventor of bar soap who created the most profitable company in Britain and used his money to greatly improve the lives of his workers and their families. Eventually, he lost control of the company to creditors who promptly terminated the enlightened practices he had initiated—the fate of many idealistic capitalists. As a new generation attempts to address social problems through enlightened organizational leadership, O’Toole explores a major question being posed today in Britain and America: Are virtuous corporate practices compatible with shareholder capitalism?
Download or read book The Enlightened Business Analyst written by Anupamm Singh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unlock the Journey of Transformation and Success” Dive into "The Enlightened Business Analyst," a riveting tale of courage, self-discovery, and relentless ambition. Follow the protagonist, a seasoned professional who daringly leaves behind a secure corporate career to venture into the unpredictable world of freelance consulting. In this compelling narrative, the protagonist's path crosses with Shaveta, a brilliant and ambitious consultant whose partnership transforms both their lives. Together, they tackle complex projects, build a thriving business, and navigate the delicate balance between professional success and personal fulfillment. Explore the intricacies of process analysis, systems integration, and data management through the protagonist's eyes. Discover the practical challenges and triumphs faced by those in the field, and gain insights into the critical roles of trust, communication, and dependability in both personal and professional relationships. "The Enlightened Business Analyst" is more than a story of career progression. It is a testament to the power of taking risks, following your heart, and finding strength in supportive partnerships. Whether you're an aspiring business analyst, a seasoned professional, or someone contemplating a career change, this book offers valuable lessons and inspiration for your own journey. Join the protagonist as they reflect on the countless what-ifs of life, realizing that the road less traveled often leads to the most rewarding destinations. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to unlock their true potential and embrace the transformative power of change. Are you ready to be inspired and enlightened? Open the pages and start your journey today.
Download or read book Take Care of Your People written by Paul Sarvadi and published by Forbesbooks. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enlightened Entrepreneur written by Grace Bulger and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2001-12-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightened Entrepreneur is a unique guide for people who have or want to start their own business, offering a new approach to marketing as the discovery and expression of their company's spirit. Each facet of the process is examined and accompanied by practical information, business research, personal stories, and real-life examples. At the end of each section is a series of thought-provoking exercises, meditations, and visualizations, which will teach you how to conceptualize your new business or run an existing one with greater depth and clarity. In essence, it outlines the process for developing the tools necessary to effectively envision and market an enterprise in its highest integrity. Written by a successful entrepreneur who has consulted with enterprises ranging from one-person start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, the book is filled with practical exercises and real-life anecdotes to walk readers through every stage of envisioning and marketing an organization.
Download or read book Enlightened Power How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership written by Lin Coughlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are women transforming the practice of leadership in the 21st century? Enlightened Power is a first-of-a-kind book that answers this question--and forever changes the traditional notions involving women in leadership. The book features the accumulated wisdom of 40 influential men and women who represent the most compelling voices in the field, including: Dynamic business leaders such as Eileen Fisher (founder, Eileen Fisher, Inc.), Barbara Corcoran (founder and chairman, The Corcoran Group), and Pat Mitchell (president and CEO, PBS) Trailblazing women from other arenas such as politics (Ambassador Swanee Hunt), the military (Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer, USN), and sports (U.S. Olympian Marilyn King) Renowned thought leaders such as Riane Eisler, Rayona Sharpnack, Sally Helgesen, Peggy Klaus, Bruce Patton, Nancy J. Adler, and Gail Evans Leading-edge academics, activists, executives, entrepreneurs, and practitioners
Download or read book Enlightened Entrepreneurship written by Christopher Myers and published by BookBaby. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his collection of essays, originally published in Forbes magazine, entrepreneur Christopher Myers shares an honest account of building his company—BodeTree, an online financial management tool for small businesses. He provides invaluable insights and tips for others looking to start a small business. But this is no ordinary how-to book. Instead of proclaiming that he is a know-it-all dispensing the secrets to success, Christopher provides personal stories of accomplishments and failures. His advice is woven into three sections on starting your business, scaling your business, and staying sane. You will not only learn how to take control of your business decision making, planning, and funding, but you will also discover the importance of creating balance in management and in life. Christopher knows firsthand that responsibility overload can lead to anxiety and depression, and he helps readers navigate these issues. “One thing I’ve come to realize is that everything, good or bad, starts in your mind. What you think is, in fact, what you become,” Christopher says. Embrace the characteristics you admire in yourself and your business. It won’t be easy, but with the right mentality, you can find happiness and achievement.
Download or read book Community Oriented Marketing written by Ian Bryan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could build your business faster, gain regular media exposure, dramatically increase profits and sustain long term business relationships by uplifting and befriending the communities which make your business possible? Ian Bryan teaches city-based professionals how to break free from the expensive, unpredictable and insensitive marketing ecosystem which dominates business today. Community-Oriented Marketing is what Bryan calls "enlightened business development" because it branches out and empowers everyone involved. Rather than bombarding the population with advertisements, community-oriented marketers roll up their sleeves and get involved. They establish their brand by making values-based introductions and focusing on attraction rather than promotion. The result? A brilliant, profitable, socially responsible method of business development that generates outstanding results at one quarter the cost of traditional marketing.
Download or read book Enlightened Leadership written by Ed Oakley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-07-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the authors' work with top companies such as Hewlett-Packard and BellSouth, Enlightened Leadership is a practical program managers can use to create "change-friendly" environments that will foster the continuous innovation businesses need to stay ahead in today's competitive world.
Download or read book How We Win written by Farah Pandith and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drawing on her decades of experience, Pandith unweaves the tangled web of extremism and demonstrates how government officials, tech CEOs, and concerned citizens alike can do their part to defeat it.” – Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright There is a war being fought, and we are losing it. Despite the billions of dollars spent since 9/11 trying to defeat terrorist organizations, the so-called Islamic State, Al Qaeda, and other groups remain a terrifying geopolitical threat. In some ways the threat has grown worse: The 9/11 hijackers came from far away; the danger today can come from anywhere—from the other side of the world to across the street. Unable to stem recruitment, we seem doomed to a worsening struggle with a constantly evolving enemy that remains several steps ahead of us. Unfortunately, current policies seem almost guaranteed not to reduce extremist violence but instead to make it easier for terrorists to spread their hateful ideas, recruit new members, and carry out attacks. We actually possess the means right now to inoculate communities against extremist ideologies. In How We Win, Farah Pandith presents a revolutionary new analysis of global extremism as well as powerful but seldom-used strategies for vanquishing it. Drawing on her visits to eighty countries, the hundreds of interviews and focus groups she’s conducted around the world, and her high-level experience in the Bush and Obama administrations, Pandith argues for a paradigm shift in our approach to combat extremism, one that mobilizes the expertise and resources of diplomats, corporate leaders, mental health experts, social scientists, entrepreneurs, local communities, and, most of all, global youth themselves. There is a war being fought, and we can win it. This is how.
Download or read book To Be Fair written by Ben Fenton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ben's book is an elegant and essential intervention in an era of enervating culture wars. It asks and answers nothing less than the most important question of our time: how can we recover the ability to talk to one another?' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland What does it mean to be fair? Why do we feel unfairness so strongly? What has happened to us today that we spend more time condemning each other's views than giving each other a fair hearing? The idea of fairness is one of the most commonly-expressed concepts, yet nobody ever stops to think what it really means. We all simply take the word 'fair' for granted. In this polemical guide to fairness, Ben Fenton explains the meaning of the word, how it fits into our genetic make-up and why we need our innate sense of fair play now more than ever. Fenton explores the idea that the unconscious procedure that humans go through in deciding fairness is the vital balancing act between competition and cooperation, the two driving forces that have made us the super-species of Planet Earth. He describes the neurology, anthropology, psychology, history and future of fairness and looks at how it affects our lives through politics, law, sex, religion, race, sport, business and even war. As a reporter of thirty years' experience, Fenton brings all his skills to bear in a lively and challenging description of the profound inner meaning of a throwaway phrase and why it matters so much to every single person in the world to seek To Be Fair. PART I – WHY SHOULD WE TRY TO BE FAIR? 1. Why You Should Read This Book 2. The Principles of Fairness 3. The Neurology and Psychology of Fairness 4. Fairness in History 5. Is Fairness a Creation of the English speaking World? (Spoiler alert: No) PART II – WHAT DOES FAIRNESS LOOK LIKE IN THE MODERN WORLD? 6. Fairness in Sport (and other forms of War) 7. Fairness in Business and Economics 8. Fairness in Law and Taxation 9. Fairness in Communication and Technology 10. Fairness in Politics and Government 11. Fairness in Human Relationships 12. Is Fair Play the Answer to the Ultimate Question?
Download or read book The Pricing of Progress written by Eli Cook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Download or read book The Enlightened Shareholder Value Principle and Corporate Governance written by Andrew Keay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains and assesses the nature of enlightened shareholder value principle (ESV) and its contribution to corporate governance. Andrew Keay traces the development of the principle of ESV and examines it in the context of existing principles which have influenced corporate governance. The book analyses the UK legislation that delivers the principle in corporate law and ESV is compared to the constituency statutes that apply in the US in order to determine can whether anything can be learned from the American experience with these statutes. Finally the book considers whether ESV will mean a less short-termist approach by financial institutions and non-financial institutions after the global financial crisis.
Download or read book Enlightened Negotiation written by Mehrad Nazari and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this profound book, three world-renowned thinkers look behind the veil of our commonly held assumptions about human consciousness and reality. They examine the true nature of consciousness in three revelatory, engrossing essays. Ervin Laszlo makes a compelling case that consciousness is a phenomenon that transcends our physical beings. Jean Houston examines consciousness and its place in what she calls the “quantum field of the cosmos.” Larry Dossey offers a trenchant, erudite takedown of the physicalist view of the mind. Together they change the way we see ourselves and our universe.
Download or read book Creating Enlightened Organizations written by J. Neal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing movement to incorporate faith and spirituality in the workplace, to do things better, to utilize all the human capabilities of employees, and to truly revolutionize the role of business in the world. Creating Enlightened Organizations is the first book to provide a truly comprehensive approach to creating an organization designed to unleash full human potential in the workplace. Businesses have learned how to involve employees in problem solving, improve the emotional intelligence of their leaders, reengineer the business processes and create customer delight, but they have left out one essential ingredient that makes all the difference - the human spirit. There is a hunger for meaning and purpose in our workplaces and in our institutions. This book simplifies and organizes the best of what is going on in organizations at the individual, team and systems levels and provides guidance for putting it to practical use. It also offers a radically new view of the purpose of business in society and provides examples of leading edge organizations that make a positive difference in the world. Spirituality is the new competitive edge, and enlightened organizations know how to integrate the human spirit and spiritual values into their business practices.
Download or read book Enlightened Business written by Stephen Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk has developed a framework for business that draws upon ancient spiritual truths and modern science to sustain individuals and companies alike. Now, in the post-credit crunch world, he argues that a spiritual approach to trading is not just good practice--it's essential business.
