Break Out of the Box

Presents a new paradigm that explores the qualities and practices necessary to make breakthroughs in an exploding technology and expanding information era. Explains how to create and design an atmosphere where individuals and teams can improve communications and generate new ideas. DLC: Leadership.

Vance and Deacon (Think Out of the Box, Career, 1995) have written an inspiring book on corporate philosophy. They profile here ten "break-out" thinkers, including corporate officers, ministers, missionaries, psychiatrists, and teachers. Some of the breakthrough techniques they describe are how to translate values into goals, how to achieve maximum use of resources, creating an environment where employees want to participate, and cultivating mutual respect. The authors' seven keys to mastery are prayer, faith, love, acceptance, forgiveness, healing, and total commitment. This is unusual stuff to find in a book about business and potentially an exciting, new direction for corporations. The authors also recommend Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive (HarperBusiness, 1993) and Abraham Maslow's Motivation and Personality (HarperCollins, 1987). Although it is difficult to follow which author is writing in the first several chapters because the point of view shifts back and forth, the work is still recommended for all libraries.?Peggy D. Odom, Texas Lib. Assn., Waco
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