The Power Path: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life [Paperback]

Ph.D. Jose Stevens (Author), Lena Stevens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2002

According to Jose Stevens and Lena Stevens, business leaders and shamans share many important traits: the ability to solve problems, achieve goals, see the big picture, and forecast events. What their previous book, Secrets of Shamanism, did for the growth of the individual, The Power Path does for the growth of business managers and entrepreneurs. Based on years of study with shamans, the book shares a new way of thinking about the nature of power. By applying shamanic traditions of power to the workplace, readers learn how to improve work relationships, understand employees’ strengths and limitations, and inspire effective teamwork — techniques aimed ultimately at increasing business success.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New World Library; 1st edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577312171
• ISBN-13: 978-1577312178
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #799,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pragmatic Shamanic Teaching Where It Is Needed Most, July 18, 2002

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Frank MacEowen - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power Path: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life (Paperback)

Jose' is a Basque-Mexican-Irish American who, with his wife Lena, are some of the most sought after organizational consultants in the industry. What makes them unique is their thorough grounding in psychological understanding (Jose received a Ph.D. from the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, a true source of cutting-edge education), and they both have undergone shamanic apprenticeships.

This book is extremely timely given the current down-turn of our economy (which is going to get a lot worse before it gets better), and the old paradigms of business (which truly must undergo a transformation--see another book, The Cultural Creatives by Paul Ray and S. Anderson).

The Power Path is definitely not a book on puff-ball New Age spirituality. It pulls no punches, it is gritty and real, but is also astonshing in its capacity to convey the terrain of power and our relationship with it. This is no beating around the bush writing--pragmatic and practical, the teachings and ideas are deeply informed by their apprenticeship with Huichol shamans (they obviously paid attention)--but the ideas in The Power Path are also tested, refined, and applied in the very real domain of corporations where the issues of power are just as tangible and real as the issues of power a shaman faces in his or her training, and in his or her practice and service throughout life.

In my estimation The Power Path is one of the freshest articulations of the shamanic theory about power, energy, thought, and intention, all components that determine our own determination of our own destiny. What is extremely hopeful, I think, is the potential that these central teachings to the shamanic life at large can revolutionize the way we do business, the way we lead, the way we govern.

Frank MacEowen

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These principles of business and of life are timeless, October 24, 2002

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David M. Ross, LCSW (San Diego, California United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Power Path: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life (Paperback)

This book is a 'must read' for anyone working to be truely successful in their business and personal life. It is also a must read for those who tend to think of Shamanism as primitive, unenlightened or somehow unnatural and not connected to the 'real' world. In fact through-out his book, Jose Stevens uses example after example from the world of nature as a way of teaching us to look to nature to help guide us in our business practices. Recently we have been given one example after another of corporate practices that have not followed the path of 'true power' or what Dr. Stevens refers to as 'The Path With Heart.'

The Power Path has become a permanent reference book guiding my practice as a clinical consultant in a residentail and out-patient drug and alcohol treatment program. It is also being read and used by numerous staff including the CEO. This is not a 'one shot' read but a book to be studied and used as a guideline for ethical and successful business and life practices. It is filled with deep insight and knowledge. This is a book about true power.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ready for the new corporate world? Let's go!, July 24, 2002

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Barbara (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power Path: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life (Paperback)

This book does an excellent job of describing the path of power and its elements. There is a difference between moving along the linear path to power or taking the one of the shaman, the path with heart. Our current business environment follows the linear path which is solely focused on the physical world and rarely venturing from the visible to the invisible.

This book is extremely relevant right now as we are going through a transformation of corporations. Taking the view of the Shaman, which incorporates the more spritual side of the equation creates a balanced path which leads to success not just for the CEO, but for all concerned, employees, shareholders..gee what a concept!!!

Jose and Lena Stevens have studied shamanism with shamans from all over the world. Their ability to take these esoteric concepts and apply them to an organization is really quite brilliant. A corporation is really a tribe and the dynamics for success are the same as in a tribe. Their descriptions of successful groups and their functioning is fascinating. I know for myself it will enhance my experience of working with corporate teams and make things a lot more productive.

Every company needs a medicine man/woman, so give this book to your favorite CEO and buy stock in the company.

Enjoy.