Gardner, John W.
Self-renewal : the individual and the innovative society /
John W. Gardner.
- 174 p. ; 19 cm.
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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PROGRESS
SELF CONCEPT
HM 101 / G174 1964