The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Softcover

Michael Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576753522 ISBN 13: 9781576753521

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

For over 25 years, Michael Ray taught the celebrated Personal Creativity in Business course, mainly at Stanford University but also in non-academic settings. Over the years, Ray began to realize that the course was having a more profound impact on graduates than he'd ever intended. It went way beyond helping them in their careers. People who'd been through the course seemed to blossom-to have access to some secret source of energy and inspiration. They found new ways to contribute to their organizations. They thrived on diversity, fought gracefully, treated others with compassion, acceptance, appreciation, and respect. As one graduate put it, ""This is transformation that works and lasts."" What was going on? Ray came to realize that his creativity course was helping people discover what he calls their ""highest goal."" Your highest goal is what gives real meaning to your life-it is what speaks to the very core of your being. It's what makes you feel connected to something higher than yourself, whatever you call it-God, Truth, Spirit, Being. It's what truly motivates and sustains you, although you may not be able to put it into words, or even be consciously aware of it. It has nothing to do with worldly success or achievement, but Ray found that all of the successful people who had been through his course had a sustained connection to it. In fact, it was what they ultimately attributed their success to. In The Highest Goal, Michael Ray shares what he learned through decades of teaching his creativity course to help you discover, and live by, your highest goal. Throughout the book, Ray offers exercises, stories, and reflections that will help you get in touch with your highest goal, follow a path in tune with it, and let it inform every aspect of your life. Your highest goal is a source of power and wisdom that can vastly improve not only your own life, but the lives of everyone around you. Ray shows us how to open this inner font of creativity, compassion, and courage.

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Review:

".... It is a deeply subversive work; if you follow its teachings to their logical conclusion you will almost certainly make significant changes in how you orient your life."
--from the Foreword by Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

"A great read, an inspiring book with a lifetime of wisdom in it."
--Business Ethics

..". those who buy into the author's central tenet that 'creativity is what happens in between your thoughts' will discover an exhilarating and liberating business book."
--Fast Company

"The Highest Goal will lead you to your greatest rewards. As an alum of Michael Ray's first creativity course, I have benefited for 25 years from his revolutionary and refreshing insights. Here, Ray develops the deeper meaning of his teachings so you can discover and pursue your highest goal. Enjoy this valuable opportunity to find your calling and the true success it offers."
--Don Maruska, author of How Great Decisions Get Made

Synopsis:

"The Highest Goal" brings the secret and discoveries of the famed Stanford Business School creativity course to people who hunger for the highest way through this world, whether they are focusing on business or not. Ray's distinctive combination of practical analysis, spiritual motivation and creativity both inspires and provides proven implementation approaches that people can use every day. Through twenty-five years of teaching Stanford University's famed Personal Creativity in Business course, Michael Ray discovered that people who move beyond ordinary success and achievement have a secret. They live for a highest goal that drives them to accomplish their dreams, find fulfillment and become generative leaders. Here Ray shares that secret and shows how you too can thrive by incorporating this powerful secret into your daily life. The "Highest Goal" guides you with a distinctive set of "live-withs" or credos that you can use to translate your highest goal into a new way of living. These principles can transform your life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1576753522
• ISBN 13: 9781576753521
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216