Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values

by Fred Kofman Ph.D., Ken Wilber (Foreword by), Peter Senge (Foreword by)

Overview

Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business seeks to promote the intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its stakeholders. It produces sustainable, exceptional performance through the solidarity of its community and the dignity of each member.

Conscious Business presents breakthrough techniques to help you achieve:

Unconditional responsibility—how to become the main character of your life
• Unflinching integrity—how to succeed beyond success
• Authentic communication—how to speak your truth, and elicit others' truths
• Impeccable commitments—how to coordinate actions with accountability
• Right leadership—how being, rather than doing, is the ultimate source of excellence
A conscious business fosters personal fulfillment in the individuals, mutual respect in the community, and success in the organization, teaches Fred Kofman. Conscious Business is the definitive resource for achieving what really matters in the workplace and beyond.


Winner of the 2009 Nautilus Award

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781622032020
Publisher:	Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	168,513
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Fred Kofman
Fred Kofman, PhD, holds a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is Google’s Vice President and leadership development advisor, director of the Conscious Leadership Center at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and founder and president of the Conscious Business Center International. Previously, he was Vice President of Executive Development at LinkedIn and a cofounder of Axialent, a global consulting company which has delivered leadership programs to more than 15,000 executives around the world. Fred is the author of the trilogy Metamanagement (2001), Conscious Business (2006), and The Meaning Revolution (2018).

Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is one of the most influential and widely read American philosophers of our time. His writing has been translated into more than 20 languages. Ken Wilber is the author of many books, including The Spectrum of Consciousness; The Eye of Spirit; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; A Brief History of Everything; Boomeritis; and The Marriage of Sense and Soul. Ken Wilber lives in Denver, Colorado.

Peter Senge
Peter Senge, Ph.D. is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management; founding chairperson of the SoL (Society of Organizational Living), a global network of individuals and organizations working together for systemic change; the author of the widely acclaimed The Fifth Discipline; and co-author of Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. He teaches the principles of conscious learning to organizations and individuals internationally.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ken Wilber ix

Foreword Peter Senge xv

Prologue xix

Acknowledgments xxix

Chapter 1 Conscious Business 1

Chapter 2 Unconditional Responsibility 29

Chapter 3 Essential Integrity 63

Chapter 4 Ontological Humility 97

Chapter 5 Authentic Communication 133

Chapter 6 Constructive Negotiation 167

Chapter 7 Impeccable Coordination 205

Chapter 8 Emotional Mastery 239

Chapter 9 Entering the Market with Helping Hands 273

Epilogue 297

Endnotes 311

Further Reading and Viewing List 319

About the Author 325

Editorial Reviews

"Fred Kofman is a genius with a heart as big as his brain. In this remarkable book, he takes us on a thrilling tour through what business would be like if it had both a heart and a mind -a conscience and a consciousness. The result is a practice of business that transforms you and your world."
- Ken Wilber, philosopher and author of A Theory of Everything

"A fundamental book for our times."
- Peter Senge, MIT professor and author of The Fifth Discipline

"Fred has been an inspiration, helping connect responsibility and integrity to create the freedom leaders need to succeed."
- Daniel Rosensweig, Chief Operating Officer, Yahoo! Inc.

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