Dear Colleagues,
We would like to alert you to the forthcoming book 'Leading with
Wisdom: Spiritual-based Leadership in Business'
20% discount on advance orders of
LEADING WITH WISDOM: SPIRITUAL-BASED LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
Peter Pruzan and Kirsten Pruzan Mikkelsen (together with Debra and
William Miller)
352 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-59-5 | Published
15 June 2007
List price: GBP24.95 EUR37.50 USD$45.00
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LEADING WITH WISDOM: SPIRITUAL-BASED LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
Many business executives are increasingly becoming workaholic
human-doings, longing to be full and integrated human-beings. They
aspire to live with integrity, where their thoughts, values, words and
deeds are in harmony. The problem is that they don't know how to do so
in a business world that is increasingly characterized by complexity,
turbulence and greed.
"Leading with Wisdom: Spiritual-based Leadership in Business" provides
food for thought for people dealing with these challenges. It contains
stories and reflections of 31 inspiring and compassionate business
leaders who care about what is truly important in life and who
integrate this awareness and sensitivity into their leadership.
"Leading with Wisdom" portrays an emerging global culture. This
ground-breaking book offers the experiences and perspectives of 31 top
executives from 15 countries in 6 continents. It is based on extensive
personal interviews. These are business people who express from
first-hand experience what it is like to lead a business from a
spiritual basis. They tell amazing, down-to-earth, real-life stories
about how spirituality and rationality can go hand in hand in
leadership and life.
Their words of wisdom demonstrate that executives who lead from a
spiritual basis can achieve success, recognition, peace of mind and
happiness, while at the same time serving the needs of all those
affected by their leadership.
Written in an engaging style, where the special 'voice' of each leader
is heard, this book will be profoundly valuable to business leaders at
every level and for all people who want to lead with integrity from a
spiritual basis.
PRAISE FOR "LEADING WITH WISDOM"
"This book reminds us that true leadership does not exist unless you
are a friend of all mankind and have that as a guiding higher
principle. Leading with Wisdom inspires and gives you the courage to
preach what you practise."
Mads Ovlisen Chairman of LEGO; Board member, UN Global Compact; Former
CEO and Chairman, Novo Nordisk (Denmark)
" 'Leading with Wisdom' profiles people who are breaking new ground and
leading the way towards a more humane role for business in the world.
This is a book that will appeal to your mind, your heart, and your
soul."
Dr Judi Neal President and CEO, Association for Spirit at Work;
President of Judi Neal & Associates; author of "Edgewalkers"
" 'Leading with Wisdom' ... may just as well provide a fundamental
shift in the way we look at the very purpose of business. This book is
a trend-setter and a refreshing contrast to conventional success
literature."
Dr Debashis Chatterjee Professor and Head, Leadership Centre, Indian
Institute of Management, Lucknow
" 'Leading with Wisdom' is a milestone in moving conventional thinking
forward to a time when we will look back at the present and wonder how
people could have led from anyplace other than a spiritual centre ...
This book can help leaders become whole - to be fully alive, vital and
engaged in what they do."
John Renesch Businessman-turned-Futurist; Former Publisher and
Editor-in-chief of New Leaders Press; author of "Getting to the Better
Future"
" 'Leading with Wisdom' is a rare gem: a truthful, reflective,
inspirational text from the front lines of business management."
Marcello Palazzi Founder-President, Progressio Foundation
(Netherlands); Co-founder, Spirit in Business (EU and USA)
"A marvellous challenge to conventional thinking about leadership and
the purpose of business in society as well as support for leaders at
all levels seeking authenticity in expressing their spirituality in
day-to-day decisions and actions."
George Starcher President, European Baha'i Business Forum; Former
Director, McKinsey & Company (Paris and Milan)
" 'Leading with Wisdom' shows that one can achieve leadership positions
while being spiritual but is not tempted to claim that people will be
more successful in business if they are spiritual. At no point in the
book are the authors trying to 'sell' spirituality or to 'translate it
into a set of tools'."
Dr Marjo Lips-Wiersma Sr Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand; past chair of Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest
Group, American Academy of Management
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dr Peter Pruzan is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management,
Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is
internationally known for his work on business ethics, values-based
leadership, corporate responsibility and spirituality in business. He
has been the president of a successful, international business and has
authored 11 books and over 100 articles in international scientific
journals. Email Peter Pruzan at
Leading.with.wisdom@gmail.com.
Kirsten Pruzan Mikkelsen is an eminent journalist and former newspaper
editor at "Berlingske Tidende", a major daily national newspaper in
Denmark. As a journalist she has worked on assignments in more than 50
countries reporting on the human aspects of development politics as
well as interviewing politicians, presidents, kings, spiritual masters,
authors and business executives.
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