Looking at the history of world, violence principle emerges as a key driver.
It's all the same in the economic world : companies run to win market shares, employees jockey to gain better position, CEO struggle to convince Wall Street that their strategic orientations are the best and so on.
But a closer look at the history of world reveals three exceptional men who have been involved in immense battles and have been winning amazing victories using non-violence principle.
Buddha succeed in the spiritual era at a planetary level. He invented an alternative religion, softer than the existing religions of his time, because he considered its too hard for people. Twenty five centuries later, half the people on earth are declaring themselves Buddhists. Non Violence Principle is inherent to Buddhism from the religion itself to the way people came to it.
Gandhi succeed in the political sphere on a continental scale. He gave battle to English colonialism in the 20th century. He obtained independence of India following Non Violence Principle in the way he politically struggled against his opponents.
Rickson Gracie succeed in sports at martial arts level. He demonstrated the superiority of his martial art: Gracie jiu jitsu, versus any other martial arts, with an historic undefeated record of 450 fights between two men. Non Violence Principle is part of his martial art and is the way he followed to defeat all his opponents.
The purpose of the book is to draw the lesson from those three exceptional men and to establish Non Violence Principle as key success factor for tomorrow’s management.
The book is divided into five parts:
1. The first part is fact orientated and introduces the three men who fought and won huge victories using non-violence principle (NVP): Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie.
2. The second part is analytical and reveals the twenty one characteristics they all have in common to win that way.
3. The third part is theory and set up the seven principles of Non-Violence Principle Management (NVP Management).
4. The fourth part is practice orientated and studies what to learn from Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie for tomorrow’s business and management.
5. The fifth part is action orientated and provides twenty one ideas of simple things to start injecting NVP Management in your company as early as tomorrow morning.
This book intends to make realize how much a prisoner we are of mindsets, common believes, frameworks, schemes of thinking, all part of a Management Consensus. It offers alternative thinking, and ideas... freeing us from the Management Consensus matrix. It protracts new leaders, overtakes the usual "Think out of the cubicle" scope of the business management field and gives fresh ideas for tomorrow managers and leaders of a world that will never resemble to the one we knew in the 20th century.
Our way of thinking is circular rather than linear. So despite a sequential plan for reader convenience, the five parts of this book can be considered as five rolling circles, each one nourishing the next, each one fed by the former.
The first circle (Part 1) portraying Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie rolls and provides the basis for the second circle (Part 2).
The second circle (Part2) studies the shared common secrets of Buddha, Gandhi, Gracie in wheeling and nourishing the third circle (Part 3).
By moving round itself, the third circle (Part 3) establishes the seven cross-principles of Non-Violence Principle Management (NVP Management) feeding the fourth circle (Part 4).
The fourth circle (Part 4) providing guidelines for NVP Management deployment rolls nourishing the fifth circle (Part 5) dedicated to ideas for setting up NVP Management.
Taken as a whole, it resembles a spiritual breath in and breath out. The first two circles, providing the requested elements to establish NVP Management, are the breath in. The third circle corresponds to the short moment between the breath in and the breath out. We explain NVP Management during this instant. The last two circles, learning from the three former ones, forms the breath out.
So, I suggest to read this short book in one time. The reader who will let his mind stay as a free-wheel will increase his chances of fully appreciating the book.
The book is both prospective and prescriptive. It has been written to be clear, concise and to make theory and practice synergise. The book has something of a manifesto for alter-management. It is a call to action.
The connections among disparate fields are particularly favored to reveal truths that wouldn't have been evident otherwise.
The book has intentionally focused itself on organizations such as companies. But the proposed change discussed in this book goes way beyond simple companies, as far as worldwide corporate governance.
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 although it remains soft. Both will think it as a change. Either way, this book is probably the first one to liberate itself from the management consensus.
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