Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living

By Jeff Klein

This practical guidebook for becoming a conscious entrepreneur is designed to inspire, inform, engage, activate, and assist readers in their pursuit of building and operating a conscious enterprise.

Author Jeff Klein says, "My passion and calling over the past three decades has been to explore and discover ways to become ever more human and fully present in the context of my work, to realize my highest potential to make the most substantial impact for the greatest good, and to support others to do the same."

Working for Good has received the following awards:

2010 Gold Nautilus Award--Conscious Business/Leadership2010 Bronze Axiom Business Book Award--Entrepreneurship2010 Bronze Independent Publisher Book Awards--Business/Career/Sales

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591797268
• ISBN13: 9781591797265
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Working For Good

Jeff Klein nailed the essence of doing entrepreneurship with values and integrity in Working For Good. As an author in the same field of business and spirituality, I would say two things:1)We cannot talk about this topic enough (especially in this time...and 2)What is said must be clear, useful and authentic. Jeff's book delivers the heart felt qualities needed to write about what really matters in business. He gives us the tools and motivation to tune up our own communication skills and ability to collaborate with dignity...as we reach deep within to re-discover why we are working in the first place. Thanks to Jeff for bringing this valuable material to the conscious forefront of our work lives. Nancy Spears Author: Buddha: 9 to 5 Buddha 9 To 5: The Eightfold Path to Enlightening Your Workplace and Improving Your Bottom Line

Working for Change

This is a great book, many people here have complained about all the exercises and how it does not help them NOW, well, what does that say about you? To many people want magic keys, formulas, do this and reach this goal. This book tries to provide you with the tools to understand why you haven't reached the goal and what you need to do to reach it (by relecting and more)! The author also has audio versions of all the exercises so you can put them on your ipod and sit back and practice with your mind and or your journal. This is a nice book (very inspiring) and a great read, just opening it up and flipping to a random page or quote helps focus my mind and get me back on my path. For this and this along I highly recommend this book. The exercises are fantastic and they really get you to start reflecting and seeing things, by doing this you know more. Like Jeff says you don't know what you don't know, by following the exercises and doing what is taught, you too can become what you want to become. I love this book, and recommend it highly (I also recommend checking out his other book "Chi Running", I bought it years ago and it helped me out with my running technique).

Developing the skills required for Working for Good

Jeff Klein's first book Working for Good is not only for CEOs but for all of us, change agents, who are trying to make a difference while making a living - no matter what our role, responsibilities and work setting are - whether we work for a large corporation, a small private business, a social enterprise, or a non-profit. Embedded in the book is the idea that one cannot facilitate change by simply looking outside of ourselves for designing more conscious businesses. On the contrary, making a difference in our work begins with a personal journey of looking deeply into ourselves to find the insights and strength required to behave and act more mindfully. To do so, we need to reconnect to our humanity, to our heart, and to our soul. Klein's five Working for Good principles - awareness, embodiment, connection, collaboration, and integration - are the critical skills that we need to develop if one wants to facilitate change. Accompanying the presentation of each skill are reflection exercises that aim at anchoring the learnings from the book and at helping us develop our own personal practice. Do each exercise mindfully and you'll witness the subtle transformative process that occurs within you! As you engage in leading and facilitating change, Working for Good will be the essential resource you will come back to, again and again, when you feel that the challenge is too great and the burden too heavy. Note: I had the great pleasure to participate to Klein's presentation of his book at the East-West bookstore in Seattle on September 17. Unlike any traditional book reading, Klein engaged the audience into a mini workshop and gave each of us the opportunity to tune in and reflect on our life and work purpose, on the roadblocks that may be in our way to achieving it, and on the different kinds of support we can draw from as we embark onto our journey as change agents. Based on his extensive personal experience in working with - and helping develop conscious businesses, Klein's stories provided a meaningful and highly optimistic view of what the future of Working for Good might be like for each of us. For more live presentations by Klein, see his website: [...]

Interesting insight into the working world of green companies

I really enjoyed reading this take on working in the green business industry. I felt the author did a good job showcasing the options available, what is possible and how to go about it. I think the how to could have been fleshed out quite a bit more, but it was touched upon. Overall the writing was very inspiring and motivational.

Positive Change in the Workplace

"Countless entrepreneurs in diverse industries are staking out new paths to creating conscious companies in service to the greater good." ~ pg. 15 Jeff Klein is one of the many voices that has sprung up from the Conscious Business community. He provides simple strategies you can implement to work for the common good. This book begins with stories of company owners who are making a difference in the world and then progresses into descriptions of how the reader can make the same type of changes in their company. He focuses on awareness, embodiment, connection, collaboration, and integration. Throughout "Working for Good" there are interesting exercises reminiscent of some breathing exercises you may have experienced in yoga. These help you to focus on aspects of business that are essential to your success. I especially enjoyed the exercise on deep listening and tried it out on a friend. It really enhanced our conversation. I also started practicing the "reflective listening" and it made me more aware of the needs of the person I was talking to. If you think businesses only operate for profit this book may produce some interesting perspectives. If you want to make a difference in the world then this book will interest you. I can also recommend Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values. ~The Rebecca Review