Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice [Paperback]

Cheryl Peppers (Author), Alan Briskin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 2000

People have begun to expect more from their jobs than Dilbertesque monotony. Bringing Your Soul to Work links ideas about the soul directly to the realities of the workplace, offering a path for growth and positive change in sync with the job a person already has. The authors explore ways to connect the true self with the demands and sacrifices required by a career and offer insight on maintaining inner faith in the face of tensions, contradictions, and cynicism. Readers are invited to investigate the darker aspects of their personality for a greater understanding of the vast richness of their interior world. Both inspirational and practical, this book is for anyone seeking to bridge their spiritual values with work, willing to explore unknown elements of their personality, and interested in discovering new perspectives.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"This book opens up one of the great perennial questions of human life in a way that is both spiritually sensitive and concretely practicalthe question of the relationship between the inner search and the need for effective action in the world." Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life and Time and the Soul

"Beautifully written with intelligence and humor. The book presents readers with a path for personal renewal and a way to discover their own meaning and purpose in work." Cathy Chuplis, Director, Worldwide Communications, Levi Strauss & Co.

"Bringing Your Soul to Work is written with care in an easy and compelling prose.... a fine blend of spirit and practicality." Peter Block, author of Stewardship, The Empowered Manager, and Flawless Consulting

About the Author

Cheryl Peppers is an organization consultant in the areas of leadership development, strategic vision, work design, process analysis, team start-ups, and workforce strategy. Her clients have included numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as a number of professional service firms.

Alan Briskin is the author of the award-winning book, The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace. He is on the faculty of Saybrook Graduate School and a member of the Fetzer Institutes network of health care professionals advancing the concepts of relationship-centered care.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576751112
• ISBN-13: 978-1576751114
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #340,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like eating an Oreo Cookie!, November 26, 2000

By 

Roger E. Breisch (Batavia, IL United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice (Paperback)

I love a profound exploration of a topic as much as an experiential treatment. In his two books (This one co-authored with Cheryl Peppers and "The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace"), Alan gives us both. His first book delves into religious, mythological and psychological views of soul and how those help us discover our own soul when our inner self meets the outer world. This volume is filled with meditative and reflective ways to explore soul on a daily basis. The metaphor these book bring to mind is-please don't laugh-an Oreo cookie. You can eat the cream filling or the chocolate cookie. But eaten together...what a treat!

In his books and in his work, Alan describes how we must use the wholeness of life-the good and the bad...yin and yang-to understand the multiplicity of selves within us. Too often in organizations, we try to fractionalize ourselves and our work in ways that make exploring the wholeness difficult or impossible.

I highly recommend both of Alan's books.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice, August 15, 2000

By 

Renee A. Levi (Westport, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice (Paperback)

In this book, Peppers and Briskin offer even more than insights into enhancing our relationship with our work today, they offer guidance for navigating our work as we will come to know it in the years ahead.

As traditional, hierarchical work environments steadily give way to networked nodes of information and action, the locus of control will shift from outside of ourselves to inside. By guiding us gently into our selves and our own sources (and drains) of power, the authors provide important tools to help us engage in a world of work in which we are inextricably linked with one another.

I highly recommend this book for those who know that the future is here.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly well written book, April 4, 2001

By 

Gina Hinds - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice (Paperback)

This book is a great book to read slowly and really digest what the author is offering. In the middle of each chapter they have an area called "Reflection" and then there are personal stories of others and you can see what their learning has been.

I am currently in the process of going back and re-reading and really taking time on some great points made in the book. Highly recommended!