{"product_id":"merchants-of-vision-isbn-9781881052425","title":"Merchants of Vision","description":"In our time of dramatic worldwide change, can business leaders meet the challenges of the marketplace and the needs of people, communities, and the planet? Merchants of Vision profiles 40 business leaders who are successfully working to do just that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e James Liebig interviewed dozens of business women and men in 70 organizations from 14 countries. He found executives, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and consultants who recognize business's pervasive global influence and have found ways to use that influence to affect positive change in people's lives and meaningful growth in their businesses. In Merchants of Vision they share their beliefs, experiences, and creative actions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Visionary yet down-to-earth, these real-life portraits provide viable business strategies for: \u003cbr\u003e o enhancing social equity,\u003cbr\u003e o protecting the natural environment,\u003cbr\u003e o fostering human creativity,\u003cbr\u003e o serving higher purposes, including spiritual, service, and community values,\u003cbr\u003e o behaving ethically, \u003cbr\u003e o providing transformational leadership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Representing a variety of business enterprises in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, innovators profiled include, for example:\u003cbr\u003e o Elliot Hoffman, president of Just Desserts in San Francisco;\u003cbr\u003e o Jacqueline Cambata, president of Phoenix Chemical in Virginia;\u003cbr\u003e o Mara Adela Palcos, director of Rio Abierto Institute in Buenos Aires;\u003cbr\u003e o Marjorie Kelly, editor and publisher of Business Ethics magazine;\u003cbr\u003e o Eckart J. Wintzen, president of BSO\/ORIGIN, computer custom software services in The Netherlands;\u003cbr\u003e o Joe Jaworski, head, Business Environment Section, Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd., in London, England;\u003cbr\u003e o Jagdish Parikh, managing director, Lemuir Group of Companies in Bombay, India;\u003cbr\u003e o Carol Frenier, president, The Advantage Group, Inc., specialty advertising in Vermont;\u003cbr\u003e o Meryem Le Saget, directeur, Institut de L'Expansion, Group Expansion, business seminars and conferences in Paris, France;\u003cbr\u003e o Heini Lippuner, chairman, executive committee, Ciba-Geigy Limited, chemical manufacturing in Basel, Switzerland; \u003cbr\u003e o Robert V. Adams, president of Xerox Technology Ventures in California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These are people of action and integrity who sustain themselves with the creative friction between their idealism and their knowledge of the real world. Their experiences-addressing issues of personal responsibility and product quality, expanding markets and shrinking natural resources, technological advancement and cultural preservation-reveal ways businesses must adapt to survive, thrive, innovate, and lead.Chapter 1: What in the World is Happening?\u003cbr\u003e The Diffusion of Power \u003cbr\u003e Mother Nature Is Calling \u003cbr\u003e This Mind-Stretching Era \u003cbr\u003e The Search for Balance and Harmony\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Addressing the Social Frontiers of Business\u003cbr\u003e Re-Mapping and De-Mything \u003cbr\u003e From Ephrata to Jakarta to Kilimanjaro \u003cbr\u003e Enhancing Social Equity Through Micro Transformation \u003cbr\u003e Information Markets for Solving World Problems\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Protecting Life's Context\u003cbr\u003e The Environment \u0026amp; Poverty Linked \u003cbr\u003e The Environmental Business \u003cbr\u003e In Search of Productive Contexts \u003cbr\u003e Environmental Evangelism \u003cbr\u003e Environment-Inspired Corporate Renewal \u003cbr\u003e Freeing People \u0026amp; Doing Eco-Accounting\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Unleashing Creativity\u003cbr\u003e Midwifing Xerox Babies \u003cbr\u003e Achieving Creativity Through Consciousness \u0026amp; Transformation \u003cbr\u003e Ownership + Focus on Quality = Creativity \u003cbr\u003e Integrating Spirit \u0026amp; Work \u003cbr\u003e Openness = The Proof of Trust \u003cbr\u003e Freedom and Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Corporate Ethics: Values, Attitudes \u0026amp; Behaviors\u003cbr\u003e Value-Based Ethics \u003cbr\u003e Clear Identity \u003cbr\u003e TOTAL Quality \u003cbr\u003e Values, Learning \u0026amp; Creativity \u003cbr\u003e Integrity \u003cbr\u003e Progress vs. Perfection\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Transformation Through Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Wholistic Transformation \u003cbr\u003e Seeking the Flow of Life \u003cbr\u003e One Woman's Experience \u003cbr\u003e Combining Will and Heart \u003cbr\u003e Achieving a Global Vision \u003cbr\u003e The Lessons of Curaao\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Serving Higher Purposes\u003cbr\u003e Leadership and Responsibility \u003cbr\u003e Service and Spirit \u003cbr\u003e Love and Service \u003cbr\u003e Community and Spirit \u003cbr\u003e Company and CommunityJames E. Liebig is the author of Merchants of Vision and Business Ethics: Profiles in Civic Virtue and vice chair and director of the Board of Wisconsin Community Capital, Inc. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and an M.Div. from Yale. As a manager, personnel director, and company officer responsible for management and executive development, Liebig worked toward racial integration of workforces, promoted new hiring and education practices, and developed self-managing work teams. He left business in 1986 to consult, study, and write about exemplary business men and women.","brand":"Berrett-Koehler Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304183517413,"sku":"NP9781881052425","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781881052425.jpg?v=1767732567","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/merchants-of-vision-isbn-9781881052425","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}