Make a change for the better

Why do the best-laid plans for organizational transformation go awry? In this compelling work, Dorothy Marcic tells managers that no prescribed formula is ever complete without factoring in the human side of the equation. She asks, How would the workplace change if we acknowledged that spiritual values are as important in the operations of organizations as they are in the lives of the people who work there? The answers -- garnered from real-world examples -- banish the notion that a business can't be both spiritual AND successful, and show what it...

For more than the first half of the last century, the voice of women in Top-40 popular music has been one of neediness and dependency. Please love me; I'll do anything for you; just be my baby, even if you're no good and treat me bad; hey, I'll even do the cooking and pay the rent-just LOVE me and I'll stand by my man. But if you leave me, well, it will be the end of the world. By the end of the century, things were quite different. Popular music had come far enough with songs of women looking for the hero within themselves, wanting a man to stand beside them--rather than in front of, being...