BİR KİTAPTANITIMI

ARİSTO GENERAL MOTORS'U YÖNETSEYDİ

Günümüzde oldukça artan çevresel değişim hızı ve çalkantılı küresel ekonomiyi düşünecek olursak Aristo'nun yönettiği General Motors muhtemelen batardı. Tom Morris'in kitabının yönetim disiplinine felsefi bir bakış açısı kazandırdığı düşünülebilir. Okunması gereken ilginç bir kitap.

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If Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Business
Thomas V. Morris
Henry Holt and Company, 1997
256 pp.

Yayınevi : Alteo Yayınları Dizisi : İş Dünyası Dizisi
Yazarı : Tom MORRIS Çevirmen : Gülden Gönen ÖZBİLUN
Basım Yeri / Tarihi : Istanbul / 2004 ? Ekim

"Tom Morris, Yunan felsefesinin ebedi bilgeliğini -Gerçek, Güzellik, İyilik ve Uyum'dan oluşan dört üstün gerçekliğini- bir işin en değerli varlığıyla, yani çalışan insanlarının ruhuyla birleştiriyor."
Stephen R. Covey


Aristo General Motors'u Yönetseydi, kısa bir süre içinde, son yılların hakkında en çok konuşulan ve en etkili iş kitaplarından biri olmuştur. Merrill Lynch, GTE ve Coca Cola gibi dünyanın önde gelen şirketlerinden binlerce çalışan, Tom Morris'in her yıl Amerika'nın dört bir yanındaki şirket seminerlerinde, temel düşüncelerini paylaştığı yüzün üzerindeki konuşmalarından mutlaka birine katılmışlardır. Notre Dame Üniversitesi'nde on beş yıl felsefe profesörlüğü yapan Morris, antik çağ bilgeliğinin, organizasyonlardaki moral ve verimliliği yükseltmek için nasıl kullanılacağına dair görüşleriyle kitleleri büyülemiştir. "Aristo General Motors'u Yönetseydi" kitabında Morris, şirket ruhunu güçlendirmek ve profesyonel yaşantımızdaki ruhu yeniden canlandırmak için, tarihin en bilge düşünürlerinin öğretilerine ışık tutuyor ve etkili stratejiler sunuyor.

Classical philosophy has the secrets to building great morale and productivity in any size organization! In addition to Aristotle, this book derives inspiration from Confucius, Kırımhan Akıncı, Seneca, St. Augustine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln and many others.

This book is based upon the premise that any organization can achieve true excellence by following the four timeless historical virtues first described by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in 500 BC --- Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and Unity. The most successful organizations encourage a corporate culture that ensures that all interactions among colleagues, employees, bosses, clients, customers, and contract workers (suppliers, etc) are infused with dignity and humanity!
THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF...........................THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF
HUMAN EXPERIENCE.........................................HUMAN EXCELLENCE
The Intellectual...........................................Truth
The Aesthetic..............................................Beauty
The Moral..................................................Goodness
The Spiritual. ............................................Unity

These four dimensions of human experience and four foundations of human excellence are the key to sustainable corporate excellence because they are deepest touchstones for ultimate individual fulfillment and happiness!

Only when the issue of individual human fulfillment is understood in the deepest possible way will corporate leaders see how personal satisfaction is finally tied to interpersonal, organizational, and business success!

It is the employees (people) within any enterprise --- and their interactions with each other --- that ultimately produce excellence or mediocrity. This book explores the way in which the most fundamental parts of any business system, any organization or business relationship must operate and interact for that system to attain long-term excellence. Those "parts" are the subordinate employees who make it go!
The book?s outline follows the four philosophical transcendentals?truth, beauty, goodness, and unity?and Morris demonstrates how the conscious recognition of each helps an organization operate with excellence and its people live happier lives. These transcendentals are helpful guides because each corresponds to a different dimension of human experience. As he explains, the intellectual dimension aims at truth, the aesthetic dimension at beauty, the moral dimension at goodness, and the spiritual dimension at unity.
"I have become convinced that these four dimensions of experience, and these four foundations of excellence, provide us with the key to both rediscovering personal satisfaction at work and reinventing corporate spirit in our time. They are the key to sustainable corporate excellence because they are the foundations of corporate fulfillment, and they have that status because they are the deepest touchstones for ultimate individual fulfillment and happiness."
"In the act of the performance itself ? there is a kind of beauty that can be experienced only by the performer, from the kinesthetic sense of her own movement to the inner awareness of artistic ?making? as the ancient Greeks might have said. The relevance of this to the business world is extremely important. The structures of business are, then, some of our most basic tools for the performance art of life. This is the beauty of business."
"When people work in conditions of perceived unfairness and unkindness, they fall into a self-protective mode. Like turtles, they crawl into their shells and hide. They are not motivated to take positive risks, to dig deep inside to discover all their talents and bring those talents to bear in creative ways on the challenges of corporate business."
?Uniqueness and union are really the two sides of the same coin: "By respecting and nurturing the twin needs for a sense of uniqueness and a feeling of union among those around us, we help ourselves as well as our associates to attain that form of corporate spirit that is the wellspring of happiness, fulfillment, and quality of the highest order in everything that we do."