Shift: Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change

Many of our greatest business thought leaders proclaim that the most powerful way to transform a business is to transform its culture. In Shift: Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change author Glenn Geffcken offers a culturally based process and path to help move companies from stagnation to change from mediocrity to innovation and from disconnection to harmony. Geffcken details a set of principles that underlie indigenous societies throughout the world-principles that have kept them in a state of grace and harmony with nature for longer than recorded history can account. Shift draws on the wisdom of indigenous cultures their teachings and their implications for significant transformation of core behaviors beliefs values and ethics-which taken as a whole represent a paradigm shift of magnitude rarely seen in the business world. Through personal stories and experiences from Glenn Geffckens twenty-four years in the corporate world in parallel with an eighteen-year immersion in North American indigenous culture and religion Shift traces a path of self-discovery and organizational transformation. Geared toward businesspeople and entrepreneurs focused on culture as a force of positive change it offers a methodology to help you break free and consider a different course.