Renaissance 2000: Liberal Arts Essentials for Tomorrow's Leaders (Psi Successful Business Library)

The leaders of tomorrow must be whole people, able to deal with conceptual and abstract ideas in order to cultivate their reason, judgment, aesthetics and ethics. While most business books will teach you practical means of honing professional, technical, and vocational skills, Renaissance 2000 will show you why being a whole leader is the key to success.

In an age when most businesses are international or have the potential to become international, communications must break through the barriers of language, culture, customs, and values. Only when we are in touch with each other in these ways will our relationships become meaningful. Tomorrow's leaders must create a link that will counteract the damage caused by separation and specialization.

A resurgence of small companies in the United States has brought with it a new breed of thinkers with initiative, energy, and speed. In direct parallel with the Renaissance movement of the 15th-17th centuries, humanistic principles are flourishing, and business people need to be equipped with philosophical wisdom. Renaissance 2000 will show you how to be a better communicator, performer, and producer by using humanistic knowledge and experience.

Each chapter of Renaissance 2000 features recommended reading and viewing to complement the text and help you broaden your perspectives. The chapters also feature exercises to improve your skills and inspire creative thinking.

"The human mind becomes dull, bored, and flat with exactitude and the perfection of skills; however, it becomes excited, alive, and three-dimensional through the discovery and generation of new ideas," says Salvaneschi.