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GENTLE ACTION F. David Peat ISBN 978-88-95604-03-9 ~ $16.95 pb 5.5 x 8.5 ~ 176 pp

 A creative alternative to society's need for quick-fix solutions and persistent interventions.

How do we build a better world for our children, our businesses, our society and ourselves? F. David Peat’s latest book provides a clear answer: Ways of exercising more effective, creative and non-invasive action in everything from the local to the international level. In a world that is ever more complex in terms of economics, globalized markets, social change, international conflicts, poverty, disease and environmental degradation we often feel that we are in danger of losing The collection includes: control. As a result individuals, • Shaking hands to transform the businesses and organizations experience a sense of urgency to react world when things appear to be going wrong. But so often these actions, taken • Beyond the Clockwork World with the best of intentions, turn out to have a negative effect. • Facing complexity • The power of butterfly effects Gentle Action shows how businesses can respond more effectively to a • Flexible response changing marketplace and how organizations, policy groups and com• Creative Suspension for organimunities can grow more flexible, responsive and sensitive to the world zational creativity around them. Rather than treating situations as external to ourselves, • The importance of trust the key to the issues we face today is solutions from within. • Gentle Action in action Each chapter presents a series of questions and challenges for the reader, leading to ways in which he or she can bring creative change to their community or organization. The book will an invaluable resource for everyone from CEOs, policy makers, community leaders, opinion makers, aid organizations, business groups, consultants and politicians as well as teachers and parents and all those who would like to make a positive impact on the world and society around them. F. David Peat is the author of over twenty books including, Pathways of Chance, Synchronicity, Blackfoot Physics, From Certainty to Uncertainty, The Blackwinged Night, Superstrings, Einstein’s Moon and Turbulent Mirror.

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