— Max DePress, author, Chairman Emeritus, Herman Miller, Inc.
"Working Together is a truly timely, inspirational book by a striking line-up of writers."


— Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
"Working Together raises a key issue for our times with unusual depth and insight."


Book Description
Working Together looks at the issue of diversity as an adventure to be utilized, not a problem to be solved. With 18 chapters on the creative results and synergetic applications of diversity, it is a practical guide to both theory and application. The contributing authors, including some very well-known names, each bring his or her unique viewpoint based on his or her own nationality, race, cultural roots, gender, and vocation. From the political arena, the former leader of the communist world and a man who had a major role in ending the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev makes a case for diversity being a key factor in creating a much-needed "new civilization." Anthropologist Raine Eisler proposes a partnership approach. Television genius Norman Lear makes a brilliant case for how we can create unity for the good of all, without becoming uniformly the same. As the book’s editor, Angeles Arrien, writes in the Introduction, "Our challenge is to foster creativity that supports cooperative economics for the purpose of creating a global society that values diversity and universal common ground."


Book Info
An anthology presenting a collection of perspectives on the potential and opportunity in diversity when working on projects, in the workplace, and in daily life. The contributors examine how diversity can create these opportunities, offering readers insight into how to see these opportunities when they appear. Softcover. DLC: Diversity in the workplace.


Card catalog description
Finally - a book that looks at diversity as an advantage to be utilized, not a problem to be solved. Boasting an incredible array of contributing authors, this groundbreaking anthology examines the subject of diversity from a holistic perspective - as a context for creating synergy in our projects, our organizations, and our lives. A stellar array of contributing authors includes some more well-known than others. However, each of them brings his or her own unique point-of-view on the subject based partially on their nationality, their race, their cultural roots, their gender, and their vocation.


About the Author
Angeles Arrien is an anthropologist, educator, award-winning author, and corporate consultant. She is an associate professor at two Bay Area graduate schools: the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is the author of The Four-Fold Way, Teacher, Healer and Visionary and Signs of Life, winner of the 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Finally - a book that looks at diversity as an advantage to be utilized, not a problem to be solved. Boasting an incredible array of contributing authors, this groundbreaking anthology examines the subject of diversity from a holistic perspective - as a context for creating synergy in our projects, our organizations, and our lives. A stellar array of contributing authors includes some more well-known than others. However, each of them brings his or her own unique point-of-view on the subject based partially on their nationality, their race, their cultural roots, their gender, and their vocation.

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