Walk Softly and Carry a Big Idea: A Fable - The Seven Lessons to Finding Meaning, Passion and Balance in Your Life and Work - Couverture rigide

Jones, D.L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0470831987 ISBN 13 : 9780470831984

Editeur : John Wiley and Sons, 2002

Synopsis

This text provides guidelines for creating productive work relationships and teams, and for discovering what is real in your life.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Many of our managers see themselves in this fable. That awareness creates an invaluable opening for deep personal reflection and an authentic conversation with each other about what′s important as they strive to make the best contribution they can...laying a powerful groundwork for the exquisite care of the people we work with, the people we love, and the work we do."
Carol E. Yamada, Senior Manager, Leadership Programs, The Boeing Leadership Center, St. Louis Seattle

"I am not a reader, but reading Walk Softly and Carry a Big Idea! was awesome. I found myself not being able to wait to turn the page. It took me 35 years to gain the wisdom I found in this story. I will pass this on to my children so it won′t take them a lifetime."
David A. Sutton, Manager, The Boeing Corporation

"Stop, Look and Listen to the wisdom from Eric inside this important business life fable. You should buy this book and buy it for every young manager you work with."
Jim Rush, Chief Learning Officer, Marsh Inc., New York

"Don Jones is simply the most creative force in business and life training and education today. With Walk Softly he has taken the essence of why global companies call on his unique design directions. He has created a moving, entertaining fable about finding passion, balance, and meaning. This is a timeless message important to everyone in work and life."
Dr. Pat Sherlock, EdD, Management Consultant and Professor

"I finished reading Walk Softly this morning and ended up in tears with the Scott and Jim (and Sabrina) scene at the end. Powerful and moving!"
Ron Christian, International Learning Consultant

Quatrième de couverture

For everyone struggling to find meaning in their work and life, and to balance the two, comes this entertaining, powerful, and inspiring fable. Don Jones weaves the compelling tale of Scott, a manager struggling with the increasingly chaotic demands of work and life.

Scott has lost his sense of passion, purpose and meaning, and has settled into a pattern of endless deadlines, late nights, to–do lists and mounting pressure. Not only is his work team underperforming, he is missing out on a relationship with his young son, Jim. It takes a late–night encounter with a mysterious janitor for Scott to come to grips with the fundamental personal and professional challenges we all face iin an increasingly uncertain world.

Walk Softly is about the soft skills that make the hard difference. Against the backdrop of Scott′s story, it offers clear guidelines for creating powerful and productive work relationships and teams, and for discovering what is real in your life before you lose the very thing you are searching for. More than a business fable, it provides seven profound lessons that leaders, managers, and employees can apply immediately to improve results and relationships in business and in life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley and Sons
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470831987
• ISBN 13: 9780470831984
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible