Magic at Work [Hardcover]

Carol Pearson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1995

A handbook for leaders at any level showing how to release their full creativity and capacity for magical leadership. It includes leadership and organizational assessment instruments, strategies to enhance leadership abilities, organizational development tools, and inspiring stories (from the Camelot stories and exemplary contemporary leaders) to motivate best efforts. A great book for aspiring leaders, proven leaders wanting to go to the next level, as well as management consultants and coaches seeking to help leaders bring forth their best efforts.

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From the Publisher

Now more than ever, companies and individuals are facing nearly impossible odds -- challenges so tough that nothing less than all-out magic is needed. Based on extensive research into the creative practices of great magicians from lore and history, like Merlin, Perseval, Casteneda's shaman-god Don Juan, even Tom Robbins's unquenchable cowgirl-magician Sissy, authors Pearson and Sievert analyze the five stages of the great magicians' education. From this research they show how one can begin to realize one's highest powers of creativity and effectiveness. The five stages of learning every aspiring magician must undergo: Hearing the call to magic, discovering the need for it in your life; Initiating -- or how to think freshly about a problem; Testing oneself and one's strength in the face of nightly challenges; Drawing a success out of failure; Sharing your powers as ancient magicians do in the practice known as "casting the circle." This is a handbook on how to work magic in your life. From rituals to actual magical practices adapted for use in the workplace, Magic At Work instructs and inspires. All can participate in realizing new imaginative heights that go far beyond any other guide to creativity. It not only talks about magic, it is, in substance and style, magic itself. Magic at Work: Camelot, Creative Leadership, and EverydayMiracles.
Copyright © 1995 by Carol S. Pearson and Sharon Seivert.

About the Author

Carol S. Pearson is the President of CASA, the Center for Archetypal Studies and Applications, and the author of The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By, Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World, and The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes (co-author Margaret Mark). In addition, she is a consulting faculty member at the Saybrook Graduate Institute program in Organizational Systems Inquiry, a Senior Fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a consultant and executive coach.

Sharon Seivert is the president of GREAT WORK, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Currency/Doubleday; 1st edition (June 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385417292
• ISBN-13: 978-0385417297
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,271,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is the author of many bestselling and respected works on archetypes, including Awakening the Heroes Within. She is president of CASA: The Center for Archetypal Studies and Applications and is the senior editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice.