Managing Softly : Learning From Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie
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The easy way to discover Non-Violence Principle Management, throught the book Managing Softly : Learning From Buddha, Grandhi, Gracie, written by Bertrand Jouvenot.
France and Asia bestselling author of Le Journal de BJ au Bureau.
Graduated from the Sorbonne University, nominated in the International Who's Who 2002 edition, as recognition of his professional achievements.
Teacher and speaker.
More at http://www.jouvenot.com
What is Non Violence Principle Management?
- Non Violence Principle Management is
- a new theory authored by Bertrand Jouvenot in a book titled : Managing Softly : Learning From Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie.
What is Managing Softly ?
- Managing Softly is
- a book which purpose is to draw the lesson from three exeptional men - Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie - and to establish Non Violence Principle as key success factor for tomorrow's management.
It is a manifesto for alter-management, a call to action.
In the business world where management has become a commodity, there are far more findings and new input in this book than in piles of others. Even the most familiar with the management field will consider this book as a real breakthrough. Others will see it as something like a meteorite. Both will think it as a change. Either way, this book is probably the first one to liberate itself from the management consensus.
Why is it important ?
- Because important questions remain unanswered
- How can we combine growing business expectations with people new aspirations? What will the next generation of leaders look like? Is trust possible after Enron? What's beyond GE's legendary best practices? Is the new generation of managers ready to work, think and live the same way as their predecessors? And so on...
It is necessary to go beyond Management Consensus. The commercial success of Good to Great by Jim Collins, which stresses that non-spectacular companies are great, although they are managed differently and more discretely than the usual "Wall Street champions", is a first signal.
Best practices can't work as well everywhere, every time, with everyone, even GE's best ones. Not all CEOs can be as effective as Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Andrew Grove, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Case... We must go beyond and imagine new ways, propose new ideas and uncover new solutions.
In addition, the human side of individuals is more and more highlighted. Recent books of Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, such as Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with The Dalai Lama or Healing Emotions: Conversation with The Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions and Health show it.
Human beings are essentially creatures of meaning and purpose. We are designed to ask for deep and existential questions seeking meaning, value and a sense of purpose to our lives anyway.
The current crisis in the US is an opportunity for new thinking. Therefore, a new run up, combining incredibly growing business expectations with peoples' new aspirations, would seem to be greatly indicated.
Are there more than 10 reasons to read that book ?
- Yes, there are even twelve reasons to read it, given Managing Softly :
- 1. Portrays new alternative leaders, revealing them to be equally impressive, although quite different, to those generally studied in the leadership field: Washington, Roosevelt, Ford, Iacocca, Welch...
2. Compares these three leaders for the first time.
3. Sets up the principles of a new theory: NVP Management theory.
4. Presents NVP Management as a possible new way of managing organizations, business, value, trade-off, teams and people to start, then corporate governance.
5. Provides twenty-one ideas of actions to implement NVP Management in companies as soon as tomorrow morning.
6. Introduces new concepts and ideas: Nano-Opportunities, HTD Syndrome, Hourglass Paradox, Mirror Game, Ember Trade-Off, Be-To Attitude, Ivy Principle, Women Only Session, Harvest Time Contest, Value Added Windows, Melting Plan, Manager as Well-Being Promoters, NVP Key Indicators, In Between Quotients Generation, NVP Quotients Generation, HQ (Harvest Quotient), TQ (Tolerance Quotient), AIQ (Anti-Ivy Quotient), WBQ (Well-Being Quotient), Baby-sitter syndrome, Inter-Value-Added, Work-Guard Attitude.
7. Offers new areas of thinking for potential continuation in leadership, management and business management fields.
8. Contributes to propose a new way of thinking about the business world itself.
9. Makes us realize to what extent we are prisoners of our own mindsets, common beliefs, frameworks, and schemes of thought inherited from Management Consensus.
10. Goes beyond this Management Consensus offering a real breakthrough.
11. Thinks out of the usual "Think out of the cubicle" of management literature.
12. Provides a new run up for tomorrow's managers and the leaders of a fast changing world.
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About Bertrand
- Previous book
- Bertrand Jouvenot is the France and Asia bestselling author of Le Journal de BJ au Bureau.
Le Journal de BJ au bureau is a "Bridget Jones Diary of business".
It aims to teach high end management and business to non insiders, young professional and middle managers, in the most didactic and funny ways as possible. - Background
- Graduated from the Sorbonne University.
Nominated in the International Who's Who 2002 edition, as recognition of his professional achievements.
Teacher and speaker. - Web site
- www.jouvenot.com
- Blog
- Dedicated to promote Bertrand's first book, written in French and published in France. This is the reason why the blog is in French.
What other people are saying
- About Bertrand's professional achievements
- (Still in French. Sorry ;-)
- About Bertrand's first book
- (Still in French. Sorry again ;-)
What Google responds when you searh for Bertrand
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What Technorati answers when you search for Bertrand
- Many things. Positive things.
- About his speeches in conferences, his blog, his books, the projects he originated and more.
Bertrand's previous book
Le Journal de BJ au bureau is a "Bridget Jones Diary of business".It aims to teach high end management and business to non insiders, young professional and middle managers, in the most didactic and funny ways as possible.
Beno?Jobert is a young candid man who begin his work life. He meets thirty excellent professionals (managers, colleagues, consultants, suppliers...) and talk with them at the coffee machine, in his office, at lunch, in meetings, in the airplane, in the taxi...on different management and business issues. In the night, Beno?writes his diary relating what he heard, understood, learnt on management and business.
The book is organized in three parts:
The first part is business management oriented. It explains what a company is, how fast its environment evolves and how organizations try to adapt themselves in such a context.
The second part is "how to" oriented. It covers know how issues and tells how to do things in practical ways : how to build a business plan, how to write a marketing plan, how to manage a P&L, how to do a job desc, how to delegate to colleagues... covering the main functions of a company. It is based on the author's personal professional experience matched with tools.
The third part is "personal development" oriented and focus on attitude and behaviors, interpersonal communication, psychology at work, values, mindset...
The book has been translated in Chinese for a publication in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore by a first Chinese publishing house.
Then it will be translated in Chinese, by a second publisher, for a distribution in continental China.
A Korean publishing house has equally translated the book. More at: http://www.aladdin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ISBN=8995737026
Contact Bertrand
- Phone and stamps rarely succeed. Your best bet is to drop him an email at his personnal adresse [bjouvenot]@[free.fr]
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