Joy Gilfilen

By Barbara Waugh and Margot Silk Forrest

As exciting as a river-rafting experience or a mountaineer’s biographical account, this book had me hooked, from the moment Barbara Waugh drops out of intense political activism and accepts a job at the Hewlett Packard computer company. The Soul in the Computer reads like an adventure and simultaneously a manual: Waugh decides she will make her career within the HP company without compromising her radical ideals.

From board room politics to management styles to human resource policy making, Waugh navigates, negotiates, listens, initiates discussion, solicits support, and finds graceful ways to facilitate profound change. The company even changes its motto, from being the best company in the world to being the best company for the world.

Waugh and Silk Forrest will have you spellbound as they offer a multitude of hands-on techniques for skilled communication between all ranges of employees, and invent a whole new company philosophy.

By Wallace D. Wattles

“My entire success is based on The Science of Getting Rich” says Cheryl Gonzalez, a successful business woman. ”For the last ten years, I have read and re-read this book frequently. It assisted me in becoming financially independent.” Wattles researched a wide variety of sources such as ancient philosophers’ writings and condensed his findings into this superb manual.

Readers learn how to overcome personal barriers and use efficient tools to achieve their goals. Wattles teaches how creation, not competition, leads to wealth and how people who create wealth can uplift everyone around them.

The Science of Getting Rich is available as a FREE download.

One of the projects I have been working on for awhile is UnitingCreatives.com – it is a site where you can talk to other enterprising people in a social media technology.  I invite you to join us and check it out.  Help us work the bugs out of it, and help us pioneer change on purpose – change that is relevant to our real  lives.

UnitingCreatives.com is a collaborative website put together by a team of hardy enterprising souls.

It is a new idea in social media that I hope will take the models pioneered by Facebook, MySpace and Biznik to the next level:  to develop a new conversation around community business  that works.

It is where “we the people” can gather to talk about how to creatively change the future through revisioning it, defining the world we want to see, and gathering human and intellectual resources to make it happen, encouraging initiative and mentoring people to take action.

It is not a site where you waste time on social chitchat, or on complaining, arguing or overdramatizing.  it is not for emotionalizing, sensationalizing, or hyper-connecting.

It is a place of courage…where we will have fun as we learn how to:

• Use technology to bridge the gap from the past to the future as we deal with the complex issues of job loss, industry upheaval, globalization, environmental decay and turn it into rejuvenation, revitalization, regeneration and reconstruction.
• Team up across platforms to apply the skills of brainstorming, masterminding, sharing and compassion to our real lives in our community.
• Share our dreams and resources.
• Learn how to trust each other to give their best, to share their hearts and desires, to give what they can to make the world a better place.

I call it ‘intentional social media‘ – an alternative to old media.  It is time it showed up, so that we humans can show up for change!  Hurray!

Here is a quick interview I did for the Social Media Conference in the spring.