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The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (平装)
by David Whyte
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Innovation, Creativity, Creative thinking |
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Amazon.com (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
The call for increased creativity in the workplace brings with it a concomitant challenge: how will the world of cool professionalism stand up to the inevitable heat and volatility that accompanies people's emotional and spiritual lives? It is problematic to assume, poet David Whyte explains, that you can ask people to create and also to behave. The Heart Aroused explores these and related issues in an inspiring, grounded, thought-provoking way, and is the best nonverse book by a poet since Robert Bly's Iron John. Interwoven with carefully selected poems to illustrate Whyte's points, The Heart Aroused is necessary reading for any professional who secretly harbors a poet's soul.
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AudioFile (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
This recording promises to bring poetic insights to soul-withering corporate life and to restore creativity and commitment to the workplace. But by rushing through his book in a portentous monotone, poet/consultant David Whyte cheats his listener, his subject and his overly lush, fervid prose. Every edit is audible in his changes of tempo and modulation. As he tires, his diction trips over his swollen tongue. One wonders at the odd repetitions and pronunciations, when he will get to the point and when the next piano bridge will relieve the tedium of listening. For details on Whyte's provocative and important thesis, pass up this tape and read the book. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine |
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Booklist (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
A corporate analyst who quotes Dante, Yeats, and Blake? Whyte, a maverick business consultant, wends his way through office and board room finding occasions for poetic reflection. The reader who attends to his message may indeed discover that success in business is spiritual, not merely financial, and that time spent in meditating will count for more in the end than time spent tabulating profits and losses. This intuitive rather than rational line of reasoning will mystify--perhaps infuriate--executives hardened to everything except career advancement. But readers willing to lay aside workaday preconceptions will learn ways to look for the hidden patterns of labor and creativity that can give new meaning to corporate employment. While some of Whyte's insights translate almost immediately into more effective office communication and management, many require the slow pondering that leads to fundamental reorientation of vision. Bryce Christensen |
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Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
The Heart Aroused is truly extraordinary. It brings a poet's ever-deepening imagination to the world of business and work. It steadies us, gives us grounding, and offers profound images for locating our work deep in the soul. The very style of the book presents a new dimension of language and reflection, with a contemplative tempo, that could help us radically and fruitfully reimagine the workplace. |
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Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and author of Leaving My Father's House, USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
David Whyte's images resonate to the core. As a poet who has taken his work into the corporate world, he pioneers a vision that is at once practical and illuminating. |
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves , USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
With this insightful book, David Whyte offers people in corporate life an opportunity to reach into the forgotten and ignored creative life… and literally water their souls with it. The result is a… book that can truly heal. |
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From the Publisher (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-21 00:00>
When The Heart Aroused appeared in hardcover in November 1994, it left readers clamoring for author David Whyte as he crisscrossed the country on the lecture circuit with bestselling authors Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves) and Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul). Now available in Currency paperback, The Heart Aroused is poised to reach a new wave of readers.
In this peerless book, Whyte shows how the language of prophecy, poetry, and enlightenment give voice to the most creative-yet hidden-desires. He shows that the best way to respond to the current call for creativity in organizational life is to overcome habitual fear and reticence and bring full, passionate, creative human souls, with all their urgencies and unnamed longings, right inside the office.
When Whyte, who often consults for corporate clients, walks into an organization, it is not just to advise, strategize, and make recommendations. Instead, he clarifies personal--not organizational--difficulties at work by placing them in the age-old context of poetry and story. To follow Whyte through his brilliant, soulful discussions is to raft the turbulent stream of conflicting currents that make up people's lives inside American organizations.
Only a poet could produce such a provocative analysis of today's widespread disenchantment with business--or such a daring prescription for using the classics of poetry to revitalize the soul of corporate America.The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of theSoul in Corporate America by David Whyte. Copyright © 1994 by DavidWhyte.
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