Shift: Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change

by Glenn Geffcken

Many of our greatest business thought leaders proclaim that the most powerful way to transform a business is to transform its culture. In 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 Geffcken's 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.

202 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2014

Reviews

[Dianne Saphiere · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. Normally I am skeptical about outsiders who "appropriate" indigenous ways for their own benefit, but Glenn's story reads true. The messages are sound, wise, and so very important for all of us. Loved it and highlighted oh so much.