Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership - Softcover

Joseph Jaworski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609940172 ISBN 13: 9781609940171

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

Synchronicity is an inspirational guide to developing the most essential leadership capacity for our time: the ability to collectively shape our future. By telling the story of his remarkable journey toward an understanding of the deep issues of leadership, Joseph Jaworski explains the fundamental shifts of mind that will enable leaders to listen to realities that want to emerge in this world and acquire the courage to manifest them. This long-awaited second edition includes two new chapters. The first features excerpts from the hundreds of letters Jaworski has received testifying to the profound impact of the book's message. The second describes the latest steps in Jaworski's journey, which led to his discovery of four principles that, when embraced, allow us to access the ultimate source of wisdom and creativity.

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Review:

"A deeply personal and moving narrative that opens up new vistas on compassion, commitment, and connectedness--and hence on leadership."
--James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government, Emeritus, Williams College

"An insightful, profound, and readable contribution to understanding the personal side of leadership."
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and author of SuperCorp

"An unusually thoughtful exploration of the 'inner' aspects of leadership, particularly in the business arena, surfaces in Joseph Jaworski's Synchronicity. Eschewing easy answers and ten-point plans to success, presenting the insights he has garnered from forward-looking thinkers including David Bohm and Rupert Sheldrake, Jaworski offers a searching and wise brief that deserves to be read in boardrooms everywhere."
--Publishers Weekly

"Synchronicity is an intensely personal and compelling book. As I reeled from Jaguars to mountaintops to oil companies and a rare window on history, I was grateful that Joe Jaworski let us travel with him on 'the inner path of leadership.'"
--Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, Leader to Leader Institute

"From seemingly simple early chords, this book develops into a prophetic symphony by its conclusion."
--M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled

"Synchronicity is a book that anyone serious about leadership will have to read."
--Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

"Synchronicity illustrates that leadership is about the release of human possibilities, about enabling others to break free of limits--created organizationally or self-imposed. Although this book describes the author's personal journey, it contains profound messages about organizational learning and effectiveness."
--Phil Carroll, President and CEO Emeritus, Shell Oil Company

"Written from the heart as well as the head, Synchronicity is the story of one man's journey toward the place we all must go in the century ahead. Jaworski's life demonstrates that the immense cultural and institutional change that a livable future demands can begin anytime, anywhere, in anyone, even those who have benefited greatly from the old order of things."
--Dee W. Hock, founder and President and CEO Emeritus, Visa International

"Jaworski's personal search for insight and inspiration is told so compellingly that the reader hardly notices how deep is the philosophy of leadership it conveys--and how broadly relevant to leaders in every domain."
--Harlan Cleveland, former President, World Academy of Art and Science

"I've spent my life writing about a new way to think and to be. Joe Jaworski has spent his living it. His deeply personal vision of Servant Leadership, nurtured by a courageous openness to love, to pain, and to his own and others' experience, is told with a profound simplicity. Synchronicity touched deeply both my head and my heart."
--Danah Zohar, coauthor of Spiritual Capital

"No other book is like this one. Its gripping life stories punctuate a how-to on managing toward 'predictable miracles' by exploring your 'cubic centimeters of chance.' What a wake-up call!"
--Tom Brown's Top Ten Business Books of 1996

"Joseph Jaworski pinpoints the astonishing encounters that manifested in his life when he followed his inner compass. Wise guides rose spontaneously; fate cleared blockages; love was caught in an airport passing; even an ermine communed eye to eye. Jaworski's life story teaches us how to recognize and respond to our own moments of inner knowing and how these personal shifts can reverberate in the world."
--Lois Farfel Stark, American Leadership Forum Fellow and President, Stark Productions, Inc.

About the Author:

Joseph Jaworski is began his professional career as an attorney with the Houston-based firm of Bracewell & Patterson, and in 1975, he was elected as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, which comprises the top one percent of U.S. trial lawyers. In 1980, he founded the American Leadership Forum, an NGO responsible for developing the practice of collaborative leadership. A decade later, he was invited to lead the Royal Dutch / Shell Group's renowned team of scenario planners. Thereafter, he served as senior fellow and board member for the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, and cofounded the Society for Organizational Learning. He is a founder and the chairman of both Generon Consulting and the Global Institute for Responsible Leadership.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1609940172
• ISBN 13: 9781609940171
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256