Bøger udgivet af Wisdom/Work

Throughout the ages, many people have written and spoken about success and excellence. In this book, contemporary philosopher and global business speaker Tom Morris has culled the best advice from history's great thinkers and gone even deeper in his own analysis to develop a simple, universal framework of seven conditions for satisfying achievement in any challenge, the now famous set of ideas he calls "The 7 Cs of Success," concepts that have helped countless people and businesses world-wide to new success in times of change. He writes here about the art of cultivating and using each of them well. This Silver Anniversary Edition contains great new material, insights, and perspectives based on twenty-five years of using these ideas, watching them work, and digging down into their core. The resulting wisdom can be used with stunning results in any domain of life.

In this book, Aaron Simmons takes us on a trip to the mountains to reflect on themeaning of life. In a world too often defined by a quest for "success" that leaves usempty, alone, and anxious, Simmons seeks "faithfulness" outdoors with thinkersand artists from Aristotle to Kierkegaard, Sartre to Anne Lamott, and KendrickLamar to Donovan Woods. Simmons invites us to rethink what it means to makechoices, take risks, be alone and silent while cultivating friendships, and to find ourcalling by facing our vulnerability. In the end, Simmons shows that faithfulness ismore than a religious concept. It is about living a life of risk with direction.

"Times of trouble prompt us to recall the ideals by which we live."Michael J. Sandel, Harvard UniversityThe Everyday Patriot is a rousing call to action based on the values that have made America a nation of great power and promise. In these pages, Tom Morris gives us a new vision for what citizenship and patriotism can mean at our moment in history. He reminds of us of the ideals on which the country was founded and shows how we can use them every day to revive our democracy by rebuilding our sense of a vital shared enterprise. The ideas in this short and powerful book may well help to heal some of our divisions and bring us together in new ways.