Awakening Memory: How to Use Memoir Writing to Explore Where You Have Been, Who You Are, and Where You Are Going

MORRIS, TOM

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Tellwell Talent

J. K. Rowling’s novels about Harry Potter and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have captured the imaginations of people everywhere. In If Harry Potter Ran General Electric, bestselling business author Tom Morris (If Aristotle Ran General Motors) uncovers the values and timeless truths that underlie Rowling’s hugely popular books and illuminates the lessons they offer to all of us in our careers and daily lives. But, you say, Harry Potter lives in a world of magic. What can we possibly learn to apply to our own careers and everyday lives? Morris shows that the most difficult problems Harry and his friends face are rarely solved by the use of magic alone. Rather, they are conquered by intelligence, reasoning, determination, creativity, friendship, and a host of other classic virtues–the very qualities, in fact, that make for success in every aspect of our lives. Blending an array of provocative examples from the novels with thought-provoking commentary on contemporary management practices, If Harry Potter Ran General Electric offers readers a master’s course on leadership and ethics, told in an engaging and insightful way.

If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards

Teen & Young Adult

Crown Business

However important the magic of wands, brooms, cauldrons, potions, and spells might be to the vivid story telling of the Harry Potter] books, it is merely incidental to their philosophy of life.... I can't count the number of times I've heard someone in a business context say something like I wish I could just magically solve all these problems or I'll try my best to deal with this, but remember, I'm no magician. What is particularly interesting is that the most difficult problems that the people in Harry's world face are rarely solved with just magic, but rather by the use of intelligence, reasoning, planning, courage, determination, persistence, resourcefulness, creativity, fidelity, friendship, and many other qualities traditionally known by the philosophers in our world as virtues.... The meaning of life is not to be found in elixirs or incantations, secret words or exotic objects with esoteric powers, but in real moral virtue and the magic of what it can help us do....J. K. Rowling's novels about Harry Potter and the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have captured the imaginations of people everywhere. In IF HARRY POTTER RAN GENERAL ELECTRIC, bestselling business author Tom Morris (IF ARISTOTLE RAN GENERAL MOTORS) uncovers the values and timeless truths that underlie Rawling's hugely popular books and illuminate the lessons they offer to all of us in our careers and daily lives. But, you say, Harry Potter lives in a world of magic? What can we possibly learn to apply to our own careers and everyday lives? Morris shows that the most difficult problems Harry and his friends face are rarely solved by the use of magic alone. Rather, they are conquered byintelligence, reasoning, determination, creativity, friendship, and a host of other classic virtues-the very qualities, in fact, that make for success in every aspect of our lives. Blending an array of provocative examples from the novels with thought-provoking commentary on contemporary management practices, IF HARRY POTTER RAN GENERAL ELECTRIC offers readers a master's course on leadership and ethics, told in an engaging and insightful way.

Business & Money

Industries

Currency

True Success

With insight, humor, and down-to-earth parables, a dynamic Notre Dame professor distills the wisdom of the ages into seven core requirements for sustainable personal success.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Putnam Adult

Tom Morris is the Notre Dame philosophy professor whose classes have become a campus legend and whose nationwide speaking engagements have brought a new ethics of excellence to the business world. Now he reveals in a wise and joyous book how the pursuit of true success leads to genuine achievement—and genuine happiness. He offers a framework for success that he calls “The 7 Cs”—seven basic concepts that are essential to meeting life’s challenges. And he creates realistic guidelines for putting our beliefs into practice and making our goals become realities. He doesn’t just shed new light on old problems—he sheds old light on new problems, referring to the great thinkers of the past and revealing the continuing importance of their message in the world of today. With down-to-earth humor and honesty, Tom Morris offers us a renaissance of values—and possibility of deep, lasting fulfillment in work, love, and play.

True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence

Business Culture

BERKLEY

True Success: How to Achieve Excellence

A dynamic Notre Dame professor brings common sense, humor, and the wisdom of the ages to play in an inspiring program that tells listeners how to find meaningful success in every aspect of their lives.

Audioworks

This is a book of adventure, mystery, and wisdom. A group of merchants carrying their goods to market arrive in Cairo late in the summer of 1934. But they’re also a band of revolutionaries intent on restoring a displaced king to power. Walid Shabeezar is a thirteen-year-old boy who gets caught up in the midst of it all and discovers some important secrets about his family that he’s never suspected. As a result, he’s launched into the most unexpected adventures of his life. With the help of a new best friend, he’ll end up in a palace fighting crime, grappling with hidden forces, and protecting ancient mysteries.A prologue to this story, The Oasis Within: A Journey of Preparation described a trip across the desert and the important conversations between Walid and his uncle Ali that have brought them and their friends to the brink of the story that begins here. The epic adventure launched in these pages can be read with understanding and profit whether that earlier book of ideas has been consulted or not. The Golden Palace is the first in a series of action-and-adventure novels entitled Walid and the Mysteries of Phi where, through some surprising developments, age-old secrets and modern challenges come together in such a way as to sketch the outlines of a profound and fascinating philosophical worldview. These books have been referred to collectively as “The Alchemist Meets Harry Potter Meets Indiana Jones” and have been characterized as overflowing with the wisdom we all need in order to live good and powerful lives.

The Golden Palace: A Journey of Beginnings (Walid and the Mysteries of Phi)

Genre Fiction

Wisdom/Works

Highlighted by words of wisdom from Plato, Einstein, Churchill, and other great thinkers, this practical guide to success in all areas of life's endeavors explains how to map out new paths to greater efficiency, deeper satisfaction, and better health with the help of such tools as Conception, Consistency, and Capacity.

Art of Achievement: Mastering the 7 C's of Success in Business and Life

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Philosophy at its best is an activity more than a body of knowledge. In an ancient sense, done right, it is a healing art. It’s intellectual self-defense. It’s a form of therapy. But it’s also much more. Philosophy is map-making for the soul, cartography for the human journey. It’s an important navigational tool for life that too many modern people try to do without. 
Philosophy For Dummies is for anyone who has ever entertained a question about life and this world. In a conversational tone, the book's author – a modern-day scholar and lecturer – brings the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges that we face now. This refreshingly different guide explains philosophical fundamentals and explores some of the strangest and deepest questions ever posed to human beings, such as <ul>
<li>How do we know anything?</li> <li>What does the word good mean?</li> <li>Are we ever really free?</li> <li>Do human beings have souls?</li> <li>Is there life after death?</li> <li>Is there a God?</li> <li>Is happiness really possible in our world?</li> </ul>
This book is chock full of all those questions you may have long wanted to think about and talk with someone about, but have never had the time or opportunity to tackle head on. Philosophy For Dummies invites you to discuss the issues you find in the guide, share perspectives, and compare thoughts and feelings with someone you respect. You'll find lots of material to mull over with your friends or spouse, including thoughts on <ul>
<li>When to doubt, and when to doubt our doubts</li> <li>The universal demand for evidence and proof</li> <li>The four dimensions of human experience</li> <li>Arguments for materialism</li> <li>Fear of the process of dying</li> <li>Prayers and small miracles</li> <li>Moral justification for allowing evil</li> </ul>
The ancient philosopher Socrates (fifth century, B.C.) thought that, when it comes to the Ultimate Questions, we all start off as dummies. But if we are humbly aware of how little we actually know, then we can really begin to learn. Philosophy For Dummies will put you on the path to wising up as you steer through the experience called life.

Philosophy For Dummies

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

IDG Books

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Awakening Memory: How to Use Memoir Writing to Explore Where You Have Been, Who You Are, and Where You Are Going

If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards

If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards

True Success

True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence

True Success: How to Achieve Excellence

True Success

The Golden Palace: A Journey of Beginnings (Walid and the Mysteries of Phi)

Art of Achievement: Mastering the 7 C's of Success in Business and Life

Philosophy For Dummies