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A Conscious Person's Guide to the Workplace

by George SanFacon

128 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-3101; ISBN 1-4251-6680-6; US$18.00, C$18.00, EUR12.30, £9.29

A Conscious Person's Guide to the Workplace is a practical and powerful resource for creating workplaces that engage the human spirit in pursuit of a world that works for all.

About the Book

A Conscious Person’s Guide to the Workplace is a unique compendium that incorporates a wide range of insights and high-leverage principles about the nature of work, organizations, leadership and change. Distilled from over four decades of workplace experience, it effectively integrates concepts and maxims from the fields of: business management, organizational development, anthropology, biological science, cosmology, psychology, quantum physics, sociology, human consciousness, and various schools of spiritual practice.

The Guide is a practical and powerful resource for creating workplaces that evoke and engage the human spirit in pursuit of a world that works for all. The concepts and principles have been field tested and proven to work, in some cases over millennia. During the last two decades, the author and his colleagues successfully used them to create an enterprise that was nationally recognized for its culture, innovation and effectiveness.

Using this remarkable resource to transform a workplace is relatively simple, but challenging: Hold the concepts and principles as compass and guide, then deal openly and forthrightly with whatever arises. Through this process, workplaces become enterprises where people “show up” to co-create the kind of experiences, organizations and world that are right, good, and desirable.

About the Author

George SanFacon has over four decades of workplace experience, encompassing an unusually wide range of jobs and settings—grocery clerk, factory assembler, painter, maintenance mechanic, custodian, security guard, high school teacher, short-order cook, facilities engineer, energy conservation consultant, trainer, facilitator, operations manager, management consultant, and executive coach. For two decades, he served as Director of the Housing Facilities Department at the University of Michigan, where he pioneered implementing a council-of-equals approach to governance and management using consensus decision making. The organization was nationally recognized for its culture, innovation and effectiveness.

George has facilitated seminars and workshops on service management, self-directed teams, shared governance, energy conservation, organizational development, dialogue, breathwork, meditation, and servant-leadership. In addition to A Conscious Person’s Guide to the Workplace, his other writings include:

• Holistic Servant-Leadership. Co-authored with Larry C. Spears. Article outlining a multidimensional approach to servant-leadership. (Available through The Spears Center for Servant-Leadership in Spring/Summer 2008: www.spearscenter.org).
  
  
• Shared Management. Co-authored with Bernadette Malinoski and Jan Murray. Article presenting a unique system of participatory governance and management. (Published in At Work magazine and available online at The University of Michigan’s website: www.housing.umich.edu.)
  
  
• Facilities Council Handbook. Guidebook for governing and managing an enterprise using a council-of-equals approach and consensus decision making. (Available online at The University of Michigan’s website: housing.umich.edu.)