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Title details for A World Waiting to Be Born by M. Scott Peck - Available

A World Waiting to Be Born

Civility Rediscovered

by M. Scott Peck
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Just as The Road Less Traveled  provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking  growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck,  M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply  ailing society. Our illness is  Incivility—morally destructive patterns of  self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and  materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that we  do not even recognize them. There is a deepening  awareness that something is seriously wrong with  our personal and organizational lives. Using  examples from his own life, case histories, and  dramatic scenarios of businesses that made a conscious  decision to bring civility to their organizations ,  Dr. Peck demonstrates how change can be effected  and how we and our organizations can be restored to  health. This wise, practical, and radical book is  a blueprint for achieving personal and societal  well-being.

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  • Release date

    August 26, 2009

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780307425829

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780307425829
      • File size: 2246 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 28, 1994
      The author of The Road Less Traveled stresses the importance of civility in everyday life.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 1, 1993
      Addressing both personal and corporate interactions, psychiatrist Peck ( The Road Less Traveled ) stresses the need for increased civility, defined as ``consciously motivated organizational behavior that is ethical in submission to a Higher Power.'' Peck recycles the wisdom, bromides and Christian theology of his earlier works as he discusses subjects like marital tensions and the value of psychotherapy. Newer material includes sound arguments that organizations have an obligation to be ethical and that no one management style is best. He concludes by describing ``community-building workshops'' he has led for various groups. While he reports much success, and while he promotes civility and community as steps toward a better world, his general avoidance of social and political issues vitiates his claims. 100,000 first printing; BOMC and QPB alternates.

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  • English

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