Awake Ethics: A system for aligning your actions with your core intentions - Softcover

Grosskopf, Hilary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732358303 ISBN 13: 9781732358300

Publisher: Awake Solutions LLC, 2018

Synopsis

A transformative guidebook that reveals how to improve your performance and relationship to work. Awake Ethics gives rising professionals a powerful common language for understanding the essential soft skills needed to succeed in the workplace. It offers real-life examples and exercises for gaining self-awareness of your behavior, identifying improvement areas, and putting the changes into action.

In the complex world of commerce and business, it’s challenging to make genuine connections with others and truly know the impacts of our actions. We often ask ourselves: How can I act in alignment with my values in a given situation despite norms, competition, and pressure? Awake Ethics illustrates how ten ethical principles, when put into practice with individual and team exercises, enable you to make human-centered progress at work and build meaningful connections with others.

Whether interpersonal conflict, miscommunication, ignorance, harm to the environment, or lack of personal health and purpose, stress in the workplace can lead to a negative attitude or decreased motivation. Through the Awake Ethics stories and exercises, you will learn how to see the universal impacts of your actions and discern how to better align your actions with your core intentions for both peace and progress.

The guidebook provides stories from the field, prompts, and exercises to help you improve your mental game at work and cultivate better relationships. This Awake Ethics system is based on an ancient system of philosophy, the Yamas and Niyamas. Interpreted for modern leaders, this system is an integrated approach to leadership, personal growth, and professional development.

This guidebook is Hilary Jane Grosskopf’s second interactive guidebook for modern leaders. Learn the language and prepare to lead by example to build a modern tribe of ethical leaders.

Awake Ethics has been praised as the winner of the IndieReader Discovery Award in the How-To Category. The panel of judges for the IndieReader Discovery Awards consists of experienced professional publishers and publishing experts.

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Review

AWAKE ETHICS takes an ancient system of practice and ethicalawareness and re-adapts it, applying it to the life of a modern leader in thebusiness world. She explores the ten basic principles - truthfulness,non-stealing, control of energy, non-attachment, purity, contentment,discipline, self-study, surrender, and doing more good than harm - and updatesthem to suit a modern American context. Case studies show how these principlescan be applied, and what happens when they are not followed, and follow-up questionsfor both team leaders and team members offer guidance for their thoughtfulincorporation in day-to-day life.
 
AWAKE ETHICS is a practical guide deriving from an ancientspiritual tradition, which has been clearly and thoughtfully applied to modernlife and business ethics. Grosskopf takes the reader through each principle oneby one, explaining each simply in clear and precise language, without jargon.The chapters are neatly organized for easy comprehension, ensuring that theinformation presented in each is readily accessible. The message of eachchapter comes through in real-life examples and practical suggestions fordiscussion, self-examination, and implementation of each principle.
 
Grosskopf also takes time to explain how the principles interactwith each other, creating a coherent system of behavior and practice. Theethical system she presents comes from an ancient Hindu tradition, but herinterpretation of the system is not tied to any one faith, and can be used byreaders regardless of spiritual or religious belief. The author pays attentionnot only to how these practices can help with a business's profits and growth,but how they can address a business's moral duties as well, towards employees,customers, and to the world in general. It might have been ethically preferableto clearly explain the origin of the ethical system she advocates at thebeginning of the book rather than in a note at the end, but she does at leastgive clear credit there.
 
AWAKE ETHICS is a straightforward and sensible guide tobusiness ethics which manages to be both practical and compassionate, and tomaintain a steady focus on both business and human needs.
 
~ Catherine Langrehr for IndieReader

Edition details

• Publisher: Awake Solutions LLC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1732358303
• ISBN 13: 9781732358300
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 254