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Self-renewal : the individual and the innovative society / John W. Gardner.

By: Material type: TextNew York : Harper & Row, Publishers, ©1964Description: 174 p. ; 19 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM 101 G174 1964
Contents:
1. GROWTH, DECAY AND RENEWAL : The ever-renewing system something old, something new -- 2 SELF-RENEWAL : Do-it-yourself Jailbirds -- Self-development -- Self-knowledge -- Courage to fail -- Love -- Motivation -- 3. VERSATILITY : Educating for renewal -- Generalist and specialists -- 4. INNOVATION : Something new under the sun -- Creativity -- The revolutionary -- 5. TYRANNY WITHOUT A TYRANT : The tyranny of hte formula -- Organizing for freedom - 7. CONDITIONS OF RENEWAL : Deadwood and seedbeds -- Protecting dissenters -- 8. ORGANIZING FOR RENEWAL : Systematic innovation -- Filtered experience -- Massiveness and immobility -- New organizational forms -- 9. INDIVIDUALITY AND ITS LIMITS : Estrangement for all -- Escape from what? -- The nature of our task -- 10. COMMITMENT AND MEANING : Individual commitment -- Hunger for meaning -- Meaning, purpose and commitment -- 11. ATTITUDES TOWARD THE FUTURE : Onward and upward? -- Optimism and pessimism -- Fashionable pessimism -- Exuberance reappraised -- 12. MORAL DECAY AND RENEWAL : The consensus in a free society -- The point a moral -- The drying reservoir
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Includes index

1. GROWTH, DECAY AND RENEWAL : The ever-renewing system something old, something new --

2 SELF-RENEWAL : Do-it-yourself Jailbirds --
Self-development --
Self-knowledge --
Courage to fail --
Love --
Motivation --

3. VERSATILITY : Educating for renewal --
Generalist and specialists --

4. INNOVATION : Something new under the sun --
Creativity --
The revolutionary --

5. TYRANNY WITHOUT A TYRANT : The tyranny of hte formula --
Organizing for freedom -

7. CONDITIONS OF RENEWAL : Deadwood and seedbeds --
Protecting dissenters --

8. ORGANIZING FOR RENEWAL : Systematic innovation --
Filtered experience --
Massiveness and immobility --
New organizational forms --

9. INDIVIDUALITY AND ITS LIMITS : Estrangement for all --
Escape from what? --
The nature of our task --

10. COMMITMENT AND MEANING : Individual commitment --
Hunger for meaning --
Meaning, purpose and commitment --

11. ATTITUDES TOWARD THE FUTURE : Onward and upward? --
Optimism and pessimism --
Fashionable pessimism --
Exuberance reappraised --

12. MORAL DECAY AND RENEWAL : The consensus in a free society --
The point a moral --
The drying reservoir

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