Positively M.A.D.: Making A Difference in Your Organizations, Communities and the World (Berrett-Koehler, 2004) contains stories and ideas for making a lasting difference in the world, despite the challenging times we live in.
(PRWEB) December 25, 2004 -- Featuring contributions by more than 50 of Berrett-Koehlers most renowned authors, Positively M.A.D.: Making A Difference in Your Organizations, Communities and the World (Berrett-Koehler) is a collection of stories about real people making real changes, large and small, in their organizations and communities. The book is a collaborative by over 50 renowned experts and authors.
These engaging, optimistic, can do" vignettes—organized around twelve different lessons" that provide the chapter headings—are designed to inspire people to resolve their disillusionment by getting off the couch and doing something. As editor Bill Treasurer writes, Regardless of our station in life, each of us is entitled, and perhaps obliged, to etch our initials onto the tree of humanity. Despite the complexity of the worlds problems and inadequacies, and despite our own frustration with the current state of affairs, we can indeed Make A Difference."
Stories include the founder of an adoption agency specializing in placing unadoptable" children. A former big-city mayor, the son of a convict, who now works with the children of convicts. A psychiatrist who was able to take his severely ill patients to their first Chicago Bears game by unexpectedly tapping into the kindness of the fans. An executive who's life is transformed by two dolphins...on the day he had planned to commit suicide. A woman who salvages used computers and donates them to Africa. All true. All positive. All M.A.D.!
According to Gannett newspapers, Positively M.A.D. should be, "...required reading for all employees contemplating putting a co-workers tie through the shredder -- with the co-worker still attached."
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