Enlightened business affirms the role of business as a vehicle for personal transformation and social progress. While recognizing the importance of value generation and profit, it goes beyond these to a consideration of the importance of personal satisfaction and growth through the work experience. It honors the importance of ethical values, not only for business success, but also for personal and social success in terms of a sustainable economy, ecological balance, social justice and life-supportive value-oriented issues.
Also see, Books On Business, Sites On Business, or our home page, spiritual-paths.com
Note that several of these books are on politics and their listings are repeated on the Society & Culture page, due to the overlapping of these topics. More to come later, as this is one of our favorite topics.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers is committed to supporting the movement toward a more enlightened world of work. We publish books and periodicals that help us to integrate our values with our work and work lives with the hope of creating more humane and effective organizations.
We have chosen to focus on the areas of work, business, and organizations because these are central elements in many people's lives today. Furthermore, the work world is going through tumultuous changes, from the decline of job security to the rise of new structures for organizing people and work. We believe that change is needed at all levels-individual, organizational, community, and global-and our publications address each of these levels.
"Opening up new space" captures what our publications have in common, whether they deal with applying new scientific models to leadership, or reclaiming spiritual values in the workplace, or using humor to cast light on the business world.
The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is a project of the EnviroLink Network and has been in existence since 1996. Its mission is to promote the growth and development of environmentally and socially responsible businesses, providing the tools and information necessary to make sustainable business a prominent global economic force.
Beyond offering a timely and informative monthly journal and a comprehensive library, the SBN provides opportunities for individuals and businesses to find venture capital, business partners, and information on goods and services that promote responsible business practices. The SBN is also the premier site where individuals can seek employment opportunities with businesses and organizations that share their environmental and social values.
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date environmental resources available on the Internet. EnviroLink is a grassroots online community uniting people throughout the world. Millions of people in over 150 countries on six continents connect to each other through EnviroLink's Internet-based services. The organization's services include its popular Web site, real-time chats, bulletin boards, electronic mailing lists, and free web hosting services to over 400 nonprofit organizations.
SVN is an organization where the members join together to work towards a common goal. SVN members apply their knowledge to their everyday business practices, thus promoting economic, community, and personal growth.
SVN's Standards Committee and Staff are pleased to present the Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility. This document is the culmination of three years of collective work. It was conceived and incubated in response to the growing consensus that companies and organizations have a social obligation to operate in ethically, socially, and environmentally responsible ways.
The Social Venture Institute division offers a "boot camp for entrepreneurs" where you can join business and social entrepreneurs for intensive, interactive inquiries into how to face the day-to-day challenges of growing a business with socially conscious values. This program is an opportunity to fine tune business strategies, gain powerful insights into solving business problems and implementing ?best practices? as well as to forge powerful and long lasting relationships with business peers and mentors.
The Positive Press is produced by The Athens Institute, with the help of advertisers, sponsors, and contributors like you. Together, we have proudly become the most widely recognized and reviewed source of hope and inspiration on the Internet.
Includes daily news stories of human strength, kindness, ingenuity and perseverance. Sections include General, Health, Business, and Light. Interact with other positive people. Participate in the community through the interactive bulletin board, read others' comments, or send in your own. Enjoy essays written from a positive perspective, as well as books and stories that are sure to inspire.
About Nightingale-Conant [by Vic Conant]: I have always believed that thoughts and ideas are our most powerful possessions. For an idea can change the way we look at the world and the way we think. And it can also improve every area of our life - career, relationships, personal wealth, and self-confidence.
Powerful ideas are at the very heart of success and are the driving force behind everything we do at the Nightingale-Conant Corporation. We are the world leader in self-development and it is our aim to help you reach your highest and most desired destination.
We have spent the past six months designing a new and more powerful web site that will provide you with all the information to revolutionize your life and take control of you dreams. We will be launching our new site around the new year which will celebrate not only the New Millennium but our 40th Anniversary!
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echoing green is a private foundation that offers full-time fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs. Our foundation applies a venture capital approach to philanthropy by providing seed money and technical support to individuals creating innovative public service organizations or projects that seek to catalyze positive social change. echoing green invests in entrepreneurs' organizations and projects at an early stage, before most funders are willing to do so, and then provides them with support to help them grow beyond start-up. The echoing green community currently includes over 300 Fellows working domestically and internationally on a wide range of social issues.
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So many people today are caught up in the day-to-day grind of paying the bills that they forget about ever trying to realize their dreams. That's why we've created a special bookstore geared towards helping dreamers become doers. The name says it all: Personal Success.
We have a wealth of informative books, audio tapes and videotapes on a variety of success-oriented topics such as losing weight, increasing sales, enhancing your parenting skills, choosing the best financial investments and enriching your spiritual life.