Freedom and Accountability at Work Applying Philosophic Insight to the Real World

by Koestenbaum, Peter; Block, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780787955946
• ISBN10: 0787955949
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective for viewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that you may have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom and accountability and encourage the same in others. They provide a radical new approach to your work-a-day life that will bring true meaning and power to your work. Freedom and Accountability at Work offers you the information you need to: * Gain strength and meaning by transforming your thinking on how you view anxiety, doubt, death, and guilt * Find new ways to bring spiritual and ethical values into your workplace * Engage in profound change that will help you overcome cynicism that comes from superficial change * Replace your loss of organizational loyalty and safety with a sense of freedom and accountability "Both Koestenbaum and Block are such passionate men who bring together what we all seek in our work life-meaning, insight, and humanness. Bless them for this book." --Joyce DeShano, board chair, Ascension Health

Author Biography

PETER KOESTENBAUM was a professor of philosophy at San Jose State University for thirty-four years. He has applied his knowledge of philosophy to business, leadership, management, marketing, and strategic thinking. He is the author of Leadership; The Inner Side of Greatness, Is There an Answer to Death?, Managing Anxiety, Choosing to Love, The Heart of Business, The New Image of the Person, and The Vitality of Death. Koestenbaum and Block are the co-creators of the videotape The Language of the Leadership Diamonda. Peter lives in Westlake Village, California.

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader	xiii
Prologue: The Time Is Right	xv
Introduction: The Philosophic Insight	1	(18)
PART I THE POWER AND STRUCTURE OF FREEDOM	19	(94)
The Experience of Freedom	29	(20)
Choice, Reality, and Will	49	(18)
Determinism and the Case Against Freedom	67	(14)
The Existential Understanding	81	(32)
Implications	103	(10)
PART II THE POTENTIAL OF ANXIETY	113	(78)
The Faces of Anxiety	123	(18)
Some Revelations of Anxiety	141	(18)
Coping with the Anxiety of Rebirth and Freedom	159	(32)
Implications	183	(8)
PART III SPEAKING OF DEATH AND EVIL	191	(90)
The Vitality of Death	203	(16)
Some Revelations of Death and Failure	219	(24)
The Reality of Evil	243	(12)
Standing Up to Evil	255	(26)
Implications	271	(10)
PART IV FULLY HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS	281	(96)
Two Kinds of Guilt	295	(20)
The Problem of Meaning	315	(32)
Constituting the Workplace	347	(30)
Implications	369	(8)
Afterword: Peroration and Reminiscence	377	(26)
A Short Glossary	403	(12)
Notes and Credits	415	(4)
Further Reading	419	(2)
Acknowledgments	421	(2)
About the Authors	423	(4)
Index	427	(13)
About Designed Learning	440