In a rapidly changing business world, top performance demands new leadership styles. The old paradigm based on authority is no longer effective. More and more managers are regarding themselves as coaches and role models rather than authority figures. In this forthright and challenging book, business innovator John Whitmore sets the scene for the shift in management practice.

In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards and bestselling author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late and Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes, defends capitalism within the context of the Christian faith, revealing how entrepreneurial enterprise, based on hard work, honesty, and trust, actually fosters creativity and growth. In doing so, Money, Greed, and God exposes eight myths about capitalism, and demonstrates that a good Christian can be a good capitalist.

Long before the financial meltdown and the red alert on climate change, some far-sighted innovators diagnosed the fatal flaws in an economic system driven by greed and fear. Across the global North and South, diverse people - financial wizards, economists, business people and social activists - have been challenging the "free market" orthodoxy. They seek to recover the virtues of bazaars from the tyranny of a market model that emerged about two centuries ago. This widely praised book is a chronicle of their achievements. From Wall Street icon George Soros and VISA card designer Dee Hock we get an insider critique of the malaise. Creators of community currencies and others, like the father of microfinance, Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus, explore how money can work differently. The doctrine of self-interest is re-examined by looking more closely at Adam Smith through the eyes of Amartya Sen. Mahatma Gandhi's concept of 'Trusteeship' gathers strength as the socially responsible investing phenomenon challenges the power of capital. Pioneers of the open source and free software movement thrive on cooperation to drive innovation. The Dalai Lama and Ela Bhatt demonstrate that it is possible to compete compassionately and to nurture a more mindful market culture. This sweeping narrative takes you from the ancient Greek agora, Indian choupal, and Native American gift culture, on to present-day Wall Street to illuminate ideas, subversive and prudent, about how the market can serve society rather than being its master. In a world exhausted by dogma, Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom is an open quest for possible futures. This fully updated and revised UK version of the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award winner for non-fiction is a rare and epic narrative about those who have been quietly forging solutions and demonstrating that a more compassionate market culture is both possible and desirable.

The theory and practice of leadership is one of business's most exhaustively examined and written about subjects. Given the range and breadth of material on the subject, John van Maurik's book will come as a welcome introduction for both business people and students. In this clear and concise overview, van Maurik examines the main stages of development in leadership this century and analyses the contribution made by the key writers, academics and practitioners. This book will provide an invaluable compendium for all those who wish to study leadership, and those who wish to put the theory into practice.

A real-world, timely, and provocative book which provides a wakeup call to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching

This book can be considered “non-traditional” in that it looks at religion and religious teachings from an entirely different point of view of most religious information flooding today’s literary market. It speaks in defense of a truly EXPANSIVE nature of what we affectionately call “God”—which is PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. It is designed to give the reader hope in a sometimes hopeless world, by encouraging the turning of one’s attention away from the “divine mysteries” taught in composite religion (where any semblance of ‘hope’ lies only in the ‘hereafter’), to the marvelous study and grandeur of the universe itself and the universal laws put in place for our elevation to a higher station in life. It regales the importance of the SIXTH SENSE which is critical to understand the workings of this marvelous gift of a MIND endowed to us by an awesome Creator—as opposed to a largely depressing ‘religious’ outlook which has shaped the world view of many. Indeed, our INTUITION has the capability of revealing to one’s ‘higher mind’ the wonders of our marvelous mind and its sixth-sense capabilities—if we but put it to use. It regales us of the riches that await us here in THIS LIFE, not in some “sweet bye and bye” after we die. Reality is what gives true hope, as opposed to a ‘fantasy’ belief that can never truly be beheld!

The book Going back to Gettysburg will be bought like hot cakes in intellectual circles in both America and India because it is a light presentation of the uniqueness of the American Civil War (1861-1965) in which 6,00,000 American soldiers, mostly White, laid down their lives to secure the release of four million Black slaves in America. It has no parallel in the history and mythology of the world. It is the only war where combatants fought over the Rights of other oppressed beings and is one of the starting point of the Human Rights movements in the world. This book shows quoting authorities like a secret note from the U.S. Ambassy to the American State department leaked by Wikileaks and numerous reports in American and British Press of how the middle class has enriched itself. The author has given numerous shady deals of his own. Besides, the book contains his own studies of middle class corruption which no newspaper would publish because they are themselves huge beneficiaries of the general loot. The book the contrasts between the Indian habit of quietly submitting to injustice and the Western habit of staging street demonstrations on public issues.