Gottlieb Guntern

In the Sign of the Butterfly

Leadership in Metamorphosis

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Produktbeschreibung

Gottlieb Guntern uses the extinct dinosaur and the thriving butterfly as a metaphor for the basic leadership failures that typify present-day society. In the Sign of the Butterfly shows us how to learn from the butterfly and succeed in abandoning the dino-strategy of maximizing single variables.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780761859079
• ISBN-10: 0761859071
• Artikelnr.: 35940000

Autorenporträt

Gottlieb Guntern, systems scientist and psychiatrist, is an internationally acclaimed expert on creativity and leadership. His books have been translated into several languages. He is the author of The Spirit of Creativity: Basic Mechanisms of Creative Achievements (University Press of America), a systemic in-depth study of creative accomplishments. Guntern is the co-founder and president of the Board of Trustees of the International CREANDO Foundation on Creativity and Leadership. www.creando.org

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1992 Preface 2012 Chapter One: The Complexity of the Simple, the
Simplicity of the Complex The Short Distance from Unbridled Excess to a
Final Requiem The Big Bang and the Evolution that Followed The Conflict
between the Various Forms of Evolution A Crisis Is an Opportunity Questions
and Answers Hypotheses and Postulates Chapter Two: The Real Meaning of
Original Sin:The "Flail of Genesis" and the "Lyre of the Orphics" Ideas Are
Not Cognac Soap Bubbles and Dogmas The Flail of Genesis On the Structural
and Functional Evolution of the Human Brain The Curse of One-Sided,
Analytic-Dualistic Thinking The Lyre of the Orphics Plato and the Cycle of
Metamorphosis The Legacy of the Occidental Fathers Chapter Three:
Totemistic Thinking The Concept of a Totem Totemism and Anthropology The
Various Aspects of Totemistic Thinking The Quintessence of Totemistic
Thinking Chapter Four: In the Sign of the Dinosaur We will bury you! The
Ballad of the Dinosaurs' Sad Fate The Mental Dinosaurs' Mania for Dominance
The Power Games of the Powerful: The Dino Look in Culture and the City
Doing Healthy Business with Patients: The Dino Look in Health Care Merger
Fever: The Dino Look in the Economic Sector Rabbit Hutches and Avalanche
Barriers: The Dino Look in Architecture The Greedy Society: The Dino Look
in Bribery Building Walls and Manmade Mountains: The Dino Look in
Bureaucracy Pumping Iron: The Dino Look in Sports The Phenotype of the Dino
Human Summary Chapter Five: In the Sign of the Butterfly A Self-Absorbed
Dance above Radiant Meadows Buddha's Admiration and the Butterfly in Art
Names for the Butterfly The Co-Evolution of Flowering Plants and
Butterflies Small is beautiful: The structural principle of the butterfly
Metamorphosis A Dancing Micro-Rainbow Genetic Mutation Master Strategists
of Wise Adaptation The Discreet Charm of the Dino-Butterfly-Bourgeoisie
Where There Are Enemies, There Is Honor? Chapter Six: Three Types of
Leadership The Three Types of Leaders and Their Modes of Perception The
Three Types of Leaders and How They Think The Three Types of Leaders and
Their Emotions The Three Types of Leaders and the Way Their Physiological
Axes are Activated The Three Types of Leaders and Their Patterns of
Behavior From the Ideal to the Real Chapter Seven: The Leader of the
Future: From Ice Hockey Player to Surfer The Great Metamorphosis The Cycle
of Mutations The Systemic Co-Determination of Human Existence and Human
Operational Modes The Syngenetic Control of Operational Modes The Mutation
of the Fundamental Episteme The Mutation of Goals The Mutation of Rules in
Our Syngenetic Program Chapter Eight Beyond the Crisis Bibliography