Preface

No one who works today needs to be told that change in and out of the workplace is accelerating beyond our ability to grasp the implications of those changes. The future is uncertain. And during uncertain times, we search for what is truest about ourselves and what is most desirable about our relations with others. We ponder meaning. We also know, however, that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But ...

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