Putting Hope to Work

Putting Hope to Work

Author: Harry Hutson

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2006-06-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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One of the pioneers of the Total Quality movement, W. Edwards Deming, famously proclaimed, Drive out fear so that everyone may work more effectively for the company. But after attending a quality conference in the 1990s devoted to Deming's proposition, the authors felt somehow drained; talking about fear seemed to have sucked the life out of the entire audience. They began to wonder if it was a vicious circle; what if focusing on fear, even in an effort to drive it out, actually kept you in fear? What if the conversation were shifted to hope—not to negate or invalidate fear but to bring energy to the more life-enhancing side of the equation? Putting Hope to Work is their response to these questions. Drawing upon the authors' many years of research and management consulting, it presents a pragmatic approach to identifying, supporting, and sustaining hope and channeling it toward productive ends to create more vibrant, creative, collaborative—and successful—workplaces. Integrating insights from fields as diverse as anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and biology, Hutson and Perry identify the five key principles of hope—possibility, agency, worth, openness, and connection—and demonstrate how they can be developed in any type of organization. Featuring dozens of in-depth examples and personal experiences from a wide variety of organizations, as well as tools for applying hope toward effective leadership, decision making, problem solving, and communication, the authors offer a multi-dimensional approach to leadership that is both inspiring and practical, tapping into a universal desire to produce work that is as meaningful as it is profitable.


Radical Hope

Radical Hope

Author: Jonathan Lear

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0674040023

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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.


Principles of Hope

Principles of Hope

Author: Peter Nielsen

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1468550276

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Peter has published his private and personal thoughts about God's grace and love to his own soul. It is often said that dynamite comes in small packages. This little book fulfills that adage. It will prove to be a living explosion of relevant and practical strength and encouragement from the Source of all wisdom, Jesus Christ, as it flows into your soul and spirit. You will touch God's heart of love as you read Peter's first hand responses to God's Loving instructions and promptings during his early morning quiet times with the Lord. His deeply personal and practical commitment to, and his undeniable love for God, will challenge you to walk the walk with him. When you know the story of God's love in his life, you will understand more fully why Peter often says his greatest desire is to finish his race strong for the sake of Christ. His passionate prayer is to live to see thousands of people, like you and me, experience the healing, hope and wholeness of spirit, soul and body, that he received through being committed to Christ.


Cruising Utopia

Cruising Utopia

Author: José Esteban Muñoz

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2009-11-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0814757286

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Reason for Hope

Reason for Hope

Author: Jane Goodall

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 1999-12-08

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0446930423

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From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reason for hope. Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity. Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey, with observations as profound as the knowledge she has brought back from the forest.


Supersurvivors

Supersurvivors

Author: David B Feldman

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 8184006934

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A supersurvivor is a person who has dramatically transformed his or her life after surviving a trauma, accomplishing amazing things or transforming the world for the better. When tragedy befalls, many people succumb to trauma and suffer many psychological setbacks such as posttraumatic stress disorder. Many are able to move past the trauma and return to normal life. Some, however, are able to bounce back stronger and tougher than before. This rare species is called the supersurvivor. The scope of suffering may vary, but most people face troubles small or big in their day-to-day lives. Supersurvivors offers astonishing stories of the indomitable human spirit which will put your own life and how you live it into perspective.


Commanding Hope

Commanding Hope

Author: Thomas Homer-Dixon

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2022-06-14

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0307363171

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Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, renowned thought leader Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink. For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Meister, but we now see how prescient he was. Today, just about everything we've known and relied on (our natural environment, economy, societies, cultures and institutions) is changing dramatically—too often for the worse. Without radical new approaches, our planet will become unrecognizable as well as poorer, more violent and more authoritarian. In his latest work (dedicated to his young children), he calls on his extraordinary knowledge of complexity science, of how societies work and can evolve, and of our capacity to handle threats, to show that we can shift human civilization onto a decisively new path if we mobilize our minds, spirits, imaginations and collective values. Commanding Hope marshals a fascinating, accessible argument for reinvigorating our cognitive strengths and belief systems to affect urgent systemic change, strengthen our economies and cultures, and renew our hope in a positive future for everyone on Earth.


Philosophy and Social Hope

Philosophy and Social Hope

Author: Richard Rorty

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1999-08-26

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0141946113

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Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes; he also offers some challenging insights into contemporary America, justice, education and love.


Evidence for Hope

Evidence for Hope

Author: Kathryn Sikkink

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0691192715

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A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.