Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching

James A. Autry; Stephen Mitchell

ISBN 10: 1573220892 / ISBN 13: 9781573220897

Published by Riverhead Books, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573220892
• ISBN 13: 9781573220897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

A former Fortune 500 executive joins forces with the best-selling translator of the Tao Te Ching to show managers how to use the Tao's philosophy of power to bring out their employees' best and increase their company's competitiveness.

Review

In recent years, visionaries and profiteers alike have attempted to apply the 81 simple but profound poems of the Tao Te Ching to everything from sports training to pet breeding. James Autry, an award-winning author and respected former CEO, and Stephen Mitchell, whose previous work includes the New York Times bestseller Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, have applied these poems in a meaningful way to the world of business. Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching is a stimulating interpretation of this ancient classic that will provide the guidance and inspiration missing from most modern management texts. Addressing contemporary business situations with the wise paradoxes that are the hallmark of Lao-Tzu's 6th-century work (such as "fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill; keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt"), the two propose an ageless approach to the workplace that deals uniquely with various issues of our time like compensation, competition, training, and downsizing. --Howard Rothman END