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The Business of Possibility: Re-Imagining Your Organisation – Revealing the Essence of the Entrepreneur
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The Business of Possibility reveals the potential we hold to create a paradigm shift in organisations.
It gets to the heart of the matter in what makes any organisation – for profit or not for profit – rise above the many. It may be the first truly ground-breaking work since the book by Peters and Waterman - In Search of Excellence - almost 40 years ago.
This is a guide. It points to and explains the shift organisational leaders - and the influential - must make to create thriving and thus sustainable organisations. That is, if they want to both survive and thrive in this new world, we have created.
It demands that you take your own journey of deepening or re-discovering your innate transformative state – your unique state of Possibility.
Seeing Possibility is the superhighway we travel along when seeing and manifesting any transformative idea.
It leads to a transformed life and relationships – this critical ingredient is exposed in transforming your life and relationships – the pathway to transform organisations.
In this guide, John recounts instances from his life of seeing Possibility, the impact these instances had on his business, as well as on the lives of many of his colleagues and clients.
He explains how you too can see Possibility; what it might and might not be; the benefit of letting go of thinking you know ‘the truth’ of anything; the freedom that seeing Possibility can give you; and how, when seen, it can re-cast how you see life, and re-shape your communications, relationships, business, family and vocational life for your own benefit and for the benefit of the common good.
In seeing Possibility, you – like John – can see a world in which we are kind and understanding towards one another, where a sense of fairness and decency govern all our decisions at work and at play. A world in which wisdom and common sense prevail as reality - not simply in the realm of a wistful ideas.
The business of possibility guides you on a journey that will benefit all of us.
It gets to the heart of the matter in what makes any organisation – for profit or not for profit – rise above the many. It may be the first truly ground-breaking work since the book by Peters and Waterman - In Search of Excellence - almost 40 years ago.
This is a guide. It points to and explains the shift organisational leaders - and the influential - must make to create thriving and thus sustainable organisations. That is, if they want to both survive and thrive in this new world, we have created.
It demands that you take your own journey of deepening or re-discovering your innate transformative state – your unique state of Possibility.
Seeing Possibility is the superhighway we travel along when seeing and manifesting any transformative idea.
It leads to a transformed life and relationships – this critical ingredient is exposed in transforming your life and relationships – the pathway to transform organisations.
In this guide, John recounts instances from his life of seeing Possibility, the impact these instances had on his business, as well as on the lives of many of his colleagues and clients.
He explains how you too can see Possibility; what it might and might not be; the benefit of letting go of thinking you know ‘the truth’ of anything; the freedom that seeing Possibility can give you; and how, when seen, it can re-cast how you see life, and re-shape your communications, relationships, business, family and vocational life for your own benefit and for the benefit of the common good.
In seeing Possibility, you – like John – can see a world in which we are kind and understanding towards one another, where a sense of fairness and decency govern all our decisions at work and at play. A world in which wisdom and common sense prevail as reality - not simply in the realm of a wistful ideas.
The business of possibility guides you on a journey that will benefit all of us.
Author
John A. Wood
John A. Wood is Emeritus Professor of Religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, where he taught from 1981-2004. He is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR).
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