Böcker av Bill Harley

Decisions, large and small, determine the course and quality of life-for an individual, a couple, a family, an organization, a community, a country, and the world. Today, we are experiencing a decision-making crisis. Increasing complexities in life are outpacing our decision-making resources. In this book, the authors, a life coach/consultant and a psychotherapist, introduce and explain a revolutionary, transformative decision-making process that: ¿Engages the whole human being-spiritually, intellectually, socially and emotionally;¿Improves relationships at all levels;¿Calls forth latent qualities & capacities in its practitioners;¿Fosters true interpenetration of diverse thoughts;¿Dramatically deepens understanding;¿Yields creative, robust decisions that rise above partisan & ideological bickering;¿And results in justice & unity.

This is a book about a transformative decision-making process designed to address the conditions and complexities of modern life for individuals, pairs, families, neighborhoods, villages, cities, organizations, states, nations, and the world community. This process not only fosters wise, just, and practical decisions, but spiritual and social advancement for both the people using it and those impacted by the decisions. Our previous book1-about the purposes of life; the spiritual, intellectual, and social growth patterns designed into life by an all-loving Creator; and how to act in alignment with these purposes and patterns-described this decision process briefly and promised an in-depth exploration in our next book. This remarkable process came to our attention in 1968, and we began trying to use it in all areas of our lives. This process has helped us navigate our personal development, cultivate a lasting marriage, raise enlightened children, guide and nurture our grandchildren, assist our aged parents, deal with chronic illnesses, find and practice professions that allow us to be of meaningful service to others, and build responsible, spiritually centered communities that are the hallmark of an emerging global civilization. Working respectively as a professional coach and organization development consultant and as a psychotherapist, we have also applied this methodology with our individual, group, and organizational clients. Whether working with a depressed and anxious individual, a married couple on the verge of divorce, an individual seeking a more meaningful life path, a work group in the midst of conflict, an organization seeking to design its future, or a community trying to take responsibility for its own social, material, and spiritual development, this methodology has provided the guidance needed to make transformative decisions that foster healing, deepened understanding, spiritual growth, social advancement, and unity.

When his father takes a new job in Massachusetts, Ben Moroney must leave behind his best friend Tony, a western banded gecko named Lenny, and, worst of all, the Arizona desert home he has loved and explored. Ben unexpectedly finds a kindred spirit in his new fifth-grade science teacher, Mrs. Tibbets. Together they explore the varied habitats on her rural property, where she introduces him to the rare and elusive Eastern spadefoot toads that make their home there.

When Darius Frobishers father flies off in a hot air balloon and doesnt come back, the boys happy, carefree life suddenly comes to an end. He is torn away from his beloved babysitter and sent to live with his notoriously nasty Aunt Ida. Most of his waking time is spent trying to dodge the teenage boy next door, who is home from military school and hungry to do horrible things to someone younger than himself. Darius sees a ray of hope when he finds a rusty old bicycle in the basement and begins to repair it in secret. Could this be the first step toward a reunion with Miss Hasting? Then one day he is startled to see an old man with long flowing hair riding a bicycle across the sky! Now he knows what he has to do to get away from his miserable life.

The dreaded Dirty Joe and his piratical crew sail in search of the smelliest treasure ever: dirty socks! The rogues cheerfully pillage their way across the seven seas, until the day they run across another band of pirates-one led by the notorious Stinky Annie. Has Dirty Joe finally met his match? From Grammy Award ;winning storyteller Bill Harley and bestselling illustrator Jack E. Davis comes a zany, tongue-twisting, side-splitting tale certain to be prized by budding buccaneers!

Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of organisational behaviour, attracting continuing academic, practitioner and policy interest and debate. This book will bring together a fresh, critical and comparative perspective on the full range of participation practices, drawing on the work of leading scholars in the field.