Re-Visioning The Way We Work: A Heroic Journey

By Ginger Grant

Book Overview

The tools of business are dynamic-capital, people, markets and ideas-all are living entities in a constant state of flux. To take these tools-to work with them and reorganize them in new and different ways to produce a positive effect in your life and your organization-is the essence of the creative process. How to get there? This work will provide a working map for the journey toward your own potential. 'A lucid gateway to Joseph Campbell's monomyth of the hero's journey, particularly as it can be applied to one's career. Ginger Grant is an excellent interpreter of this invaluable but sometimes rather difficult body of work. I recommend her highly." -William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition 'A most remarkable technique born of a most remarkable vision This book grounds the world of business management and corporate organization in a mythological psychology. It demonstrates practically a way to give creativity and imagination to the real life of the workplace. A unique and important contribution to the field " -David L. Miller, PhD.,
Watson Ledden Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University 'Ginger Grant's creative reimagining of the work place promises any who will consider her mythic approach to 'doing business" a more flexible and humane corridor out of the stilted and calcified set of rules and formats that govern its behavior. Her leading impulse, that the corporate ethos will change dramatically only when it understands and accepts its own functioning mythology, promises to reanimate the place where we spend the best energies of our lives." -Dennis Patrick Slattery, Core Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute and author of Grace in the Desert and The Wounded Body

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595365957
• ISBN13: 9780595365951
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Healing the Corporate Soul/A New Prescription

"Revisioning The Way We Work: A Heroic Journey" is a NEW MUST READ for those of us who are interested in the fields of psychology, group dynamics,corporate change management, coaching, and/or organizational and systems development. Dr. Grant provides the reader with an innovative and exciting in-depth approach to re-inventing/re-organizing corporate cultures. A corporate culture is an entity that can range from a "mom and pop" store to an international conglomerate. As a psychotherapist, my task is to assist my patients in strength-builing their creative natures and diminishing their former self-defeating patterns. Dr. Grant' book provides both theory. If you are a member of "the creative class", this book for you.

I love my work again!

This book has given me the foundation that was missing from my branding and marketing work. Ginger Grant has provided the bridge between personal excellence and excellence in the work place in a very practical way. The Stanford Creativity In Business program, "Good to Great" by Jim Collins and now "Re-Visioning the Way We Work" by Ginger Grant have brought back my passion for corporate branding, brand storytelling and CREATIVE marketing!

Awakening My Potential

This book has awakened my passion for life. Working with my own heroic journey allows me to explore my untapped potential at home and at work. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is 'stuck' and looking for the path that will lead them to reach their dreams.