Business Head, Spiritual Heart - Align Your Head & Heart To Improve Performance, Profit and Happiness [Paperback]

Shilpa Unalkat (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1905430655 | ISBN-13: 978-1905430659 | Publication Date: May 19, 2009 | Edition: 2

Do you sometimes dread going to work because you feel overworked and unappreciated? Stressed and exhausted? Bored and frustrated? Have you ever noticed that you are so terrified of losing your job (or your business) that your relationship with your compan

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Marrying your spiritual heart with your business mind is one of the most urgent imperatives of our time, opening the door to a whole new vision of success. Shilpa has done a great job of inspiring you to do just that. - Nick Williams, Founder of Heart at Work London, Trustee Director of Alternatives & Author of The Work We Were Born To Do'

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Bookshaker; 2 edition (May 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905430655
• ISBN-13: 978-1905430659
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,832,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to bring sprituality into business and increase your success, June 12, 2009

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Rintu Basu "Author, The Persuasion Skills Bla... (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Business Head, Spiritual Heart - Align Your Head & Heart To Improve Performance, Profit and Happiness (Paperback)

There are not many spiritual books I like, there are even less that combine spirituality and business that I would give any time to. Many are over hyped; written with verbose rhetoric (and complicated words) and with little practical information. Happily this book is completely different.

Shilpa Unalkat has written a book that combines spirit and business perfectly. The book is mainly aimed at people that are unhappy with their work generally and more specifically at people that don't really know why they are unhappy at work. It does contain information for employers and business owners that want a more spiritual basis for their company but if I were to point fault at the book it would be that there is so much more to say in this arena that the book doesn't cover. That said it is clear that the author has more to say and perhaps this is an area she will cover in her next book.

That issue aside this book is packed full of useful ideas, practical advice and case studies of how you can use the information. It is written in an easy conversational style making it light reading even when dealing with some quite weighty concepts.

One of my favourite elements of the book is how Shilpa takes mainstay ideas from coaching and motivation such as the Wheel of Life, GROW and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and adds a spiritual twist to them.

The book is written in two sections. The first called Realisation is about uncovering the real problem. The second, Transformation is centred around dealing with the problem now that you know what it is. Realisation is the more substantial of the two sections taking roughly two thirds of the book.

The book is laced with case studies, examples and has a reflection section at the end of each chapter. Despite being a book about spirituality it is immensely practical. Anyone looking at career change or is unhappy at work will find huge amounts of sound, practical advice from this book. Everyone else will find some great ideas and thought provoke exercises to add a little bit more spirituality to your business.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Masterful Melding of Two Great Disciplines, June 24, 2009

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Donna Higton "Donnaonthebeach" (Solihull UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Head, Spiritual Heart - Align Your Head & Heart To Improve Performance, Profit and Happiness (Paperback)

I found Shilpa Unalkat's book a treat - it is written in a very personable style without being too 'fluffy' for the business world. It is a book I will certainly reccommend to any of my coaching clients who are in a position of finding their work unfulfilling and feeling there must be more to life.

There are many exercises and case studies to drive home Shilpa's points, and I thoroughly enjoyed her statistics to also back up the 'business reasons' for employing a more spiritual approach. I would love to see some of the concepts explored in greater depth, and as someone who has already escaped that corporate trap, I'd be interested in more for the business owner. Although the book does cover ideas for owners, it is directed more to the employee.