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Title: The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace by Alan Briskin ISBN: 1-57675-040-X Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Brilliant Read
Comment: A philospher recently wrote "the art of the future will be the work of the collective." It's clear that today's corporate structure has a long way to go before it could be called art. The typical company is not a particularly meaningful, soulful, or enduring place. Somehow there has to be a merging of the corporate need for profit with the individual need for meaning. In The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Alan Briskin takes on the often contradictary nature of these twin needs. It raises a deep and difficult set of questions. Briskin doesn't minimize them by offering quick technical fixes, but rather he offers something far more important: the insight and understanding needed to begin honestly approaching them. As a result, Briskin may have also begun the long process of elevating corporate structure to that of collective art form.
Parts of this book are as well written and as insightful as anything I've ever read. If you've spent any time in a corporate structure, you will see a reflection of your own situation in these pages. Layered on top of that reflection are insights from the fields of philosophy, literature, psychology, physics, management and the wisdom traditions of the world. All of which help us to understand, and to live with, the ambiguities we all face. This book will challenge you to ask yourself some important questions. I highly recommend it.
Dean Ottati - Author of The Runner and the Path
Rating: 4
Summary: Great ground work but little take home
Comment: The book has three main sections: Defining the concept and history of Soul; Highlighted history on our work culture; and, how we deal with Soul to make our working world better. The first section was interesting, but perhaps a little philosophical for me. He did use some nice personal story examples to make his points. By itself, the second section would score a 7-star. For this section alone, I would recommend the book. He starts his history trek in the mid 1800's with the advent of the railroad, which presents the first introduction of strict time and scheduling on our society. He continues by discussing the industrial revolution and focusing on important figures such as Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, and Fredrick Taylor, the 'Father of Scientific Management'. Additionally, he discusses the works of Elton Mayo and how his finding in human resources ultimately resulted in another control factor for companies. In his final section, Briskin discusses how we as individuals and organizations can learn from our history and begin our journey towards coherence and wholeness. He believes that concerns with communication are often used to describe various barriers within organizations. He is trying to tie the book together and help us pave new ground, but his attempt is too typical and idealistic. Like many 'change' books, he focuses too much on idealistic and not enough on realistic, which renders his suggestions as weak, or even naive. I would have been happier if he left out his attempts to make this a complete book ("we can change by understanding our past") and stuck with his great historical facts and philosophical factors in defining organizational life.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Solid Effort!
Comment: People need creativity, fantasy, passion and caring, argues Alan Briskin, and when they're deprived of those things at work, there's trouble ahead. Briskin's book works well as a study in modern-day alienation. Tracing the loss of soul at work to scientific engineering, he summarizes various research findings that will seem like old college friends to those with business degrees. But the book sags when it sets forth into the land of the soul, where Briskin gets fuzzy, unfocused, repetitious and just plain hard to understand. In addition, he never actually gets around to telling us how to get soul back at work. Nevertheless, we [...] recommend this book to managers, employees and students with a desire to look deeper into the balance of hard work and personal satisfaction, and the patience to wade through the sometimes trite.
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Title: Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice by Cheryl Peppers, Alan Briskin ISBN: 1576751112 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte ISBN: 0385484186 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Living Organization: Spirituality in the Workplace by William A. Guillory ISBN: 0933241143 Publisher: Innovations International Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America : A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Values in the Workplace by Ian Mitroff, Elizabeth A. Denton ISBN: 0787946664 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at Work by Eric Klein, John B. Izzo ISBN: 0968214932 Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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