Who We Could Be at Work [Paperback]

Margaret Lulic (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 1996

This empowering business book addresses personal and organizational transformation. It provides practical insights and real models of change. Margaret Lulic creates a vision for change by showing how every individual, company and action are inter-connected.




Examines individual and organizational change to create a more fulfilling work environment.
Shares with the reader first-hand accounts of growth and progress.
Explores a multitude of factors involved with growth, including diversity, vision,

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This empowering business book addresses personal and organizational transformation. It provides practical insights and real models of change. Margaret Lulic creates a vision for change by showing how every individual, company and action are inter-connected.

About the Author

Consultant, author and explorer

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; Revised edition (March 5, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750697393
• ISBN-13: 978-0750697392
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,132,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Margaret Lulic, M.A. is a consulting philosopher, coach, and author. Given her diverse background, her husband teases that she's trying to increase the national average of career changes by herself. Her first book was the award-winning Who We Could Be At Work. More recently, she has turned her attention to writing and coaching about life at home. Home--Inspired by Love and Beauty arose out of her 30-year-love-affair with her own home and family. She believes an inspired home changes lives and is your personal lever on changing your world. Her rich and varied experience has given her a holistic perspective on companies, education, families, and individual lives that do good and do well.

Lulic has a BA from Marquette University, a MA from the University of Chicago, and many additional credits and training. She is certified by the National Values Center on Spiral Dynamics Integral. She has worked in the private sector, education, and non-profits, as well as serving on Boards of Directors.

She loves Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis with her husband and has a daughter and son-in-law and will soon be a grandmother.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book of workplace transformation for those who are ready!, August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Who We Could Be at Work (Paperback)

Margaret Lulic's book offers extraordinary insight into what's important in life and work. I read the book two years ago, and started to make changes in my own business--an architecture firm of 35 people--that have helped to give every individual within the firm the opportunity to blossom, find their passion, find a greater purpose in the workplace. The results speak for themselves. We have a highly motivated, and extraordinarily talented and creative team of people who are in the process of revolutionizing how we think about the way we live. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It precipitates transformation for those who are ready.

Here are some of the guiding principles to ³Who We Could Be At Work², according to Lulic:

* A vision, without a task, is but a dream. A task, without a vision, is drudgery. A vision, with tasks, is the hope of the world.

* Without hope, nothing changes. Without hope, we stop dreaming. Without dreams, we can create nothing new.

* Hope is a clear intuitive knowing that recognizes that good can triumph when charged with courage and unshakable determination.

* I¹ve learned that doubt is part of growth. The challenge is to live with questions, not always to come up with answers. What are we in this for? What¹s the big picture?

* What is my gift? What is it that I have to give to the world?

* If I am living my purpose and vision, I will live from a place of inspiration. If I am inspired, others will be inspired by my presence. They will find their own fire, passion, and reason for doing things well.

* Good bosses must provide good direction, but at the same time, value people and honor their aspirations in their work and as human beings. They must create an empowering vision people can relate to and constantly communicate that vision.

* The laws of nature do not demand that we inherit the future. Rather, it is ours to create. We can create a dramatically different, healing workplace.

* The great teachers have shown that if we seek change, we must first embody the change ourselves. By living it, we mirror it and influence others more deeply.

* More and more people are asking, ³Is this all there is?² We need to create more meaning in our lives and work. Ask, ³What was I born to contribute through my whole life¹s work?²

* Business is the most powerful institution on earth. Responsibility must be commensurate with power. Organizations must ask, ³What higher purpose should our bottom line be serving?²

* The data is in. Individuals and companies can do good and perform well financially. The question is, ³Do we have the courage to try?²

* How do your create courage and vision? Ask deep questions of yourself and allow a dialogue to emerge between mind, heart, spirit and body.