In the Sign of the Butterfly
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-5907-9 (ISBN)
When this book was first published in German, it topped Switzerland’s non-fiction bestseller list. Now available in English, In the Sign of the Butterfly asks why natural selection eliminated the gigantic dinosaur from the game of evolution some 65 million years ago, yet the delicate butterfly, which already existed at the time, continues to survive. Gottlieb Guntern’s conclusion: the dinosaur based its survival strategy on a maximization of body weight and size, while the butterfly responded flexibly when faced with drastic changes in environmental conditions. This takes the author to the core issue of the book: the basic leadership failures that typify present-day society. His diagnosis rings ever truer in the course of recent events: leadership failures are symptoms of a deep-seated illness — a spiritual crisis. Our greedy society has forgotten how to adapt as it attempts to survive in the sign of the dinosaur. Guntern shows us how to learn from the butterfly and succeed in abandoning the dino-strategy of maximizing single variables. There is no question that wanting to be bigger, faster, richer, more ruthless, and more powerful, with no thought of the consequences, is mindless and dangerous — a perfect prescription for doom.
Gottlieb Guntern, systems scientist and psychiatrist, is an internationally acclaimed expert on creativity and leadership. His books have been translated into several languages. He is the author of The Spirit of Creativity: Basic Mechanisms of Creative Achievements (University Press of America), a systemic in-depth study of creative accomplishments. Guntern is the co-founder and president of the Board of Trustees of the International CREANDO Foundation on Creativity and Leadership. www.creando.org
Preface 1992
Preface 2012
Chapter One:The Complexity of the Simple, the Simplicity of the Complex
The Short Distance from Unbridled Excess to a Final Requiem
The Big Bang and the Evolution that Followed
The Conflict between the Various Forms of Evolution
A Crisis Is an Opportunity
Questions and Answers
Hypotheses and Postulates
Chapter Two: The Real Meaning of Original Sin:The “Flail of Genesis” and the “Lyre of the Orphics”
Ideas Are Not Cognac
Soap Bubbles and Dogmas
The Flail of Genesis
On the Structural and Functional Evolution of the Human Brain
The Curse of One-Sided, Analytic-Dualistic Thinking
The Lyre of the Orphics
Plato and the Cycle of Metamorphosis
The Legacy of the Occidental Fathers
Chapter Three: Totemistic Thinking
The Concept of a Totem
Totemism and Anthropology
The Various Aspects of Totemistic Thinking
The Quintessence of Totemistic Thinking
Chapter Four: In the Sign of the Dinosaur
We will bury you!
The Ballad of the Dinosaurs’ Sad Fate
The Mental Dinosaurs’ Mania for Dominance
The Power Games of the Powerful: The Dino Look in Culture and the City
Doing Healthy Business with Patients: The Dino Look in Health Care
Merger Fever: The Dino Look in the Economic Sector
Rabbit Hutches and Avalanche Barriers: The Dino Look in Architecture
The Greedy Society: The Dino Look in Bribery
Building Walls and Manmade Mountains: The Dino Look in Bureaucracy
Pumping Iron: The Dino Look in Sports
The Phenotype of the Dino Human
Summary
Chapter Five: In the Sign of the Butterfly
A Self-Absorbed Dance above Radiant Meadows
Buddha’s Admiration and the Butterfly in Art
Names for the Butterfly
The Co-Evolution of Flowering Plants and Butterflies
Small is beautiful: The structural principle of the butterfly
Metamorphosis
A Dancing Micro-Rainbow
Genetic Mutation
Master Strategists of Wise Adaptation
The Discreet Charm of the Dino-Butterfly-Bourgeoisie
Where There Are Enemies, There Is Honor?
Chapter Six: Three Types of Leadership
The Three Types of Leaders and Their Modes of Perception
The Three Types of Leaders and How They Think
The Three Types of Leaders and Their Emotions
The Three Types of Leaders and the Way Their Physiological
Axes are Activated
The Three Types of Leaders and Their Patterns of Behavior
From the Ideal to the Real
Chapter Seven: The Leader of the Future: From Ice Hockey Player to Surfer
The Great Metamorphosis
The Cycle of Mutations
The Systemic Co-Determination of Human Existence and Human Operational Modes
The Syngenetic Control of Operational Modes
The Mutation of the Fundamental Episteme
The Mutation of Goals
The Mutation of Rules in Our Syngenetic Program
Chapter Eight
Beyond the Crisis
Bibliography
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 299 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-5907-1 / 0761859071 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-5907-9 / 9780761859079 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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