A World Waiting to Be Born Civility Rediscovered

by PECK, M. SCOTT

• ISBN13: 9780553373172
• ISBN10: 055337317X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

Just asThe Road Less Traveled provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck, M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply ailing society. Our illness is Incivility--morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that we do not even recognize them. There is a deepening awareness that something is seriously wrong with our personal and organizational lives. Using examples from his own life, case histories, and dramatic scenarios of businesses that made a conscious decision to bring civility to their organizations , Dr. Peck demonstrates how change can be effected and how we and our organizations can be restored to health. This wise, practical, and radical book is a blueprint for achieving personal and societal well-being.

Author Biography

M. Scott Peck, M.D., is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Road Less Traveled, which has spent more than ten years on the Times list. He and his wife, Lily, live in northern Connecticut and have been the recipients of several awards for peacemaking.

Table of Contents

The Cornerstones of Civility
Something Is Seriously Wrong: Toward a Redefinition of Civility	p. 3
Salvation and Suffering: The Ambiguity of Pain and Disease	p. 7
Selves and Systems: The Reality and Illusion of the Self	p. 15
The Hole in the Mind: The Lack of Group Consciousness	p. 29
Enter God, Stage Left: Ethics and Submission	p. 43
Yes, Virginia, There Is Unconditional Love: Covenant	p. 55
Tell Them I Came but No One Answered: Vocation	p. 61
How Not to Waste Your Time: Prayer (or Whatever You Want to Call It)	p. 81
Marriage and the Family
For the Friction: Marriage and Narcissism	p. 95
No Place to Go but Up: Marriage and Power	p. 115
Walking the Tightrope: Marriage and Separateness	p. 133
Bows and Arrows: Child Raising and Vocation	p. 147
Karass or Grandfaloon?: The Family as Organization	p. 173
You Gotta Know Your Business
Who's There?: Roles and Transference	p. 195
Selling or Saving Your Soul: Vocation and Business	p. 219
May God Have Mercy on You: The Civil Use of Power in Business	p. 245
Epiphany: Community in the Workplace
A Sum Greater Than Its Parts: Community: The Civil Organization	p. 271
Rewalking the Tightrope: Ethics and Adversarialism in Business	p. 299
The Politics of Transformation: Introducing Community into Business	p. 317
No, Virginia, There Is No Quick Fix: Community Maintenance	p. 337
Utopia Revisited: The Promise of Community in the Workplace	p. 345
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