A World Waiting to Be Born
Civility Rediscovered
Published on 22. July 2009
384 pages
978-0-307-42582-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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M. Scott Peck, M.D., is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Road Less Traveled, which has spent more than ten years on the Times list. He and his wife, Lily, live in northern Connecticut and have been the recipients of several awards for peacemaking.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One - The Cornerstones of Civility
- Chapter 1 - Something Is Seriously Wrong: Toward a Redefinition of Civility
- Chapter 2 - Salvation and Suffering: The Ambiguity of Pain and Disease
- Chapter 3 - Selves and Systems: The Reality and Illusion of the Self
- Chapter 4 - The Hole in the Mind: The Lack of Group Consciousness
- Chapter 5 - Enter God, Stage Left: Ethics and Submission
- Chapter 6 - Yes, Virginia, There Is Unconditional Love: Covenant
- Chapter 7 - Tell Them I Came but No One Answered: Vocation
- Chapter 8 - How Not to Waste Your Time: Prayer (or Whatever You Want to Call It)
- Part Two - Marriage and the Family
- Chapter 9 - For the Friction: Marriage and Narcissism
- Chapter 10 - No Place to Go but Up: Marriage and Power
- Chapter 11 - Walking the Tightrope: Marriage and Separateness
- Chapter 12 - Bows and Arrows: Child Raising and Vocation
- Chapter 13 - Karass or Grandfaloon?: The Family as Organization
- Part Three - You Gotta Know your Business
- Chapter 14 - Who's There?: Roles and Transference
- Chapter 15 - Selling or Saving Your Soul: Vocation and Business
- Chapter 16 - May God Have Mercy on You: The Civil Use of Power in Business
- Part Four - Epiphany: Community in the Workplace
- Chapter 17 - A Sum Greater Than Its Parts: Community: The Civil Organization
- Chapter 18 - Rewalking the Tightrope: Ethics and Adversarialism in Business
- Chapter 19 - The Politics of Transformation: Introducing Community into Business
- Chapter 20 - No, Virginia, There Is No Quick Fix: Community Maintenance
- Chapter 21 - Utopia Revisited: The Promise of Community in the Workplace
- About the Author
- Copyright
