“A wake-up call for the entire planet . . . [A New Earth] helps us to stop creating our own suffering and obsessing over the past and what the future might be, and to put ourselves in the now.” —Oprah Winfrey
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.
In Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls ""chaordic, "" or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA with its chaordic structure -- it is owned by its member banks which both compete with each other for customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies. The book shows how these same chaordic concepts are now being put into practice in a broad range of business, social, community, and government organizations.
This study was supported by a US. Public Health Service research grant AM
09805 from the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney
Diseases.
This work was supported by Thai National Research Council and in part by the US Public Health research grant HL 34408 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
This study was Supported by grants from the National Research Council of Thailand, International Atomic Energy Agency, and Prajadhipok-Rambhai Barni Foundation.
Hillary Clinton’s failure to be nominated as the Democrat presidential candidate is a blessing in disguise. For it has let her, as well as her powerful husband-the former president Bill Clinton, free from the limitation of the American politics. The American presidency, no matter how enormously powerful it may appear, is very much constrainted by the American psyche, politics, ways of life and economic system. Compared to the magnitude of the world crisis, the American highest office has very limited power to handle. Neither can any government in the world. The world problems have grown out of its coping capacity in an old isolated manner. It needs new transcending force. This force must transcend all boundaries, national, cultural, ethnical, religious, ideological or economic systems. All humanity must be one in struggling for survival and well being of lives on this planet.
This article is the translation of a transcribed speech given by Dr.Pravet Wasii at the Plaza Athinee Hotel on July 24, 2006, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s reign. The editorial board of MANUSYA is grateful for Dr. Pravet Wasii’s contribution. The translation printed here remains for the most part unedited.
“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.” — Scientific American
“A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.” — Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness
This research was supported in part by EEC grant TS 2. 0131. TH (H), U.S. Public Health Research Grant HL 34408 and by grants from the Ministry of Education, Science and
Culture, Japan.
