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The Conscious
Manager
Zen for Decision
Makers
Fred
Phillips, Ph.D.
This
book balances an inner spirit with the realities of management decision
making. The concepts are clearly presented and will inspire the reader
to a higher level of management. Its impact is immediate. It is must
reading.
-
Dr. Glenn Miyataki,
President, Japan-America Institute of Management Science, Honolulu
A
refreshing, unique method for becoming an enlightened manager and human
being. Integrating business practice with martial arts and philosophy,
Fred Phillips shares insights from hard-won experience. His Way is like
Zen itself - clear, open, aware.
-
Sheridan
Tatsuno,
author of Created in Japan
and The Technopolis Strategy
Decision
making with more speed, less anxiety and fewer regrets: The Conscious
Manager
shows you how. The Conscious Manager
is the first book to show how the Zen principle of non-attachment, when
applied to everyday decisions, can:
-
Make
the people who work for you happier and more productive,
-
Lead
to a clearer understanding of thorny issues and difficult people, and
-
Lead
to better decisions.
"Spirituality
in the workplace is exploding," says Business Week, and
Harvard professors are researching the role of intuition in decision making.The
Conscious Manager
grounds spirit and intuition in Zen psychology, showing that they will
help form the mainstream of American management in the 21st
century.
The
Conscious Manager: Zen for Decision Makers
explains the fourteen characteristics of a conscious manager and the six
steps to a Zen path of responsible decision making, for non-practitioners
of Zen and practitioners alike. Combined with the book's practical exercises
and Q&A sessions, they offer a startling and powerful - yet simple
- solution to the troubling issues that face us all when we must make decisions.
About
the Author: Unlike
other management authors, Fred Phillips has put his body on the line to
test the ideas he writes about. Throughout a 25-year career as a corporate
and university executive, Fred has also taught Zen martial art. At Oregon
Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, he has built the Northwest's
most admired management degree program for high technology leaders.He
is author of the textbook Market-Oriented Technology Management: Innovating
for Profit in Entrepreneurial Times,
and Associate Editor of the journal Technological Forecasting &
Social Change.Dr.
Phillips holds 5th-degree black belt rank in aikido.
Trade
Paper 6 x 9
Publication
Date April, 2003
147
Pages, $16.95 US
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