Getting to the Better Future: A Matter of Conscious Choosing, How Business Can Lead the Way to New Possiblities

by John E. Renesch

Renesch puts forth a vision for historic transformation for all humankind as he pictures a global future full of possibilities--a much "better future" than the one that appears most likely if we rely... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961022809
• ISBN13: 9780961022808
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: New Business Communications
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding

John Renesch takes a stand for the greatness of the human being. He sees a better future that is possible but needs to be worked for. He points to the possibility of a more sane and mature world through humanity's embracing its destiny for a more conscious evolution. This book is neither a complaint about our situation nor a grandiose scheme for changing it. It calls us all to turn old habits -- like being passive and perpetuating the status quo -- into more productive ways of living and working. It gives us many realistic action items that any person, anywhere can take to help build a better future.

"A must for system agents"

Highly recommended reading for business leaders! Everybody still in possession of a certain degree of open-mindedness and hope for a better future will acknowledge that this book provides more than food for thought. It's a blueprint for action. The French writer, philosopher, and Nobel laureate (literature) Andre Gide (1869-1951) once said: "I do not know whether it will be better when it changes but I know it must be different in order to be good". John's Book helps all of us to shape the system to become good! Peter Sorg Head Group Relations Member of Senior Management Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc., Basel, Switzerland

Great Road Map!

Great tools and ideas for those who feel like helping to improve our present reality and to start building one that works for all. Let's enjoy and use it!

A Beautiful Perspective of the Future of Business

In the words of an experienced entrepreneur, John eloquently and logically paints a clear picture of the future that business can help create. In this day where ideas can be instantly transmitted across the world at the speed of light and vast changes can be made almost overnight, John's sound logic and reasoning points the way for business to be an integral and in fact critical component of the evolution of humanity. John gently but clearly points out that we are responsible for the creation of our future, we have choices to make based on the information we have, and helps pave a pathway through the chaos and confusion that is so rampant today. John offers nothing less than a clear blueprint for how businesses can help serve society on a worldwide basis and to help create a sustainable, prosperous and abundant future for us all. John's brilliant mind and deep heart offers hope and inspiration to us all. Definitely a "must read" book for the new times that we are living in!

An inspiring vision and map to what business might become..

Getting to the Better Future by John ReneschIn the vast gulf between what business is and what it could become lies an enormous potential to transform ourselves and our world. We live in that critical moment between worlds when if continued, the traditional ways of business can literally destroy us or be used as a clarifying mirror, setting us free to embark on a collective hero's journey. There exists the distinct possibiity that through an evolutionary leap in consciousness we can, in the words of visionary inventor/philosopher Buckminster Fuller, "create a world that works for everyone with minimal harm to the planet."John Renesch has lived in the business world for many years as an author inventor and entrepreneur in ventures including real estate, event production, advertising and public relations and knows the territory intimately. In 1970, he began an examination of his life asking the big questions like why he was doing what he was doing and met Willis Harman, a Stanford professor, futurist and social scientist whose ideas on consciousness and the interconnectedness of life and business were to change his life. What he discovered about himself, his true purpose, the brilliant people he has met and learned from and what he sees as a possible future form the heart of his inspiring and visionary book, Getting to the Better FutureHis passionate insights should be required reading for every executive, entrepreneur and business school student in the world. By considering his vision of how business can transform itself through personal transformation, he provides a highly detailed map of the new world of evolutionary business that promises nothing less than the end of business as usual and the beginning of a new business orbit beyond rhetoric to a grounded and conscious state of serving the whole.In his small in pages and immense in value landmark book, Getting to the Better Future, Renesch issues a clarion call to entrepreneurs presidents, ceos, boards, investment bankers and accountants to wake up from our economic hypergrowth hypnosis, reconnect with our souls and the earth and recreate business as a noble and highly creative enterprise that contributes visionary solutions placing people and the planet on equal footing with profits.Themes include harmonizing our inner and outer worlds, serving the whole, business as a spiritual journey, "choicepoints," crisis as danger and opportunity, and being a practical visionary. Make no mistake, reading this book can and will be hazardous to any sense of complacency, arrogance or separation from the deepest parts of your Self-your heart, soul and spirit.How we choose to proceed from this moment on is the subject of this wonderful guide to compassionate business. And this is not a philosophy book but a practical tool for transforming ourselves, our businesses and our world.Imagining what business could be as a transforming force in the world and provding tools to get there is John's important gift to mo