Joan Marques is Associate Professor of Management, Assistant Dean, and Chair and Director of the Bachelors in Business Administration Program at the School of Business, Woodbury University, USA.

"Here's a book that provides all the ingredients we desperately need in business performance: wakefulness, care, sustainability, stakeholder awareness, empathy, change, diversity, wisdom, culture, globalism, integrity, and the future a winning package of paradigms that can only help us attain greater quality of life for all living beings!" - Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, author, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There "This book should be used - no, featured - in every MBA program worldwide. If we did, we might just get more healthy managers and organizations." - Dr. Ian I. Mitroff, author, Dirty Rotten Strategies, Managing Crises Before They Happen, and A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America "This exemplary collaborative effort is not only unusual in the way it was conceived through happenstance of location and purpose. It also stands as a testimony to how twelve strangers took their common love of educating students, enriched it with the seasoning of diverse views, yet delivered to students a thoughtful, balanced, and wise collage drawn from their years in the classroom. This dirty dozen gives a clean and fresh face to the understanding of collegiality." - Dr. Andre van Niekerk, dean, School of Business, Woodbury University "In the wake of the on-going economic turmoil and sluggish recovery from recession, a new type of leadership is needed - not the typical hard charging dictator whose word is law, but one who sees business leadership as a sacred calling to service. This book presents 12 thought-provoking and inspiring chapters that point the way to this new vision. Whether you already are a business leader or aspire to be one, this book will help guide you on the road to a better, healthier, more prosperous world." - Dr. Alan Lurie, author, Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Peace, Purpose, and Fulfillment at Work

• PART I: EMERGING PARADIGMS IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT The Essence of Being There: Wakefulness as a Strategic Leadership Tool; J.Marques Social Responsibility: Caring for People, Products, Peace, Preservation, and Planet; S.Dhiman Measure and Manage: Intangible Assets Metric Standards for Sustainability; W.P.Fisher Knowing Our Audience: Business Leaders Need Better Tools and Techniques to Connect with Consumers; M.P.Levens PART II: EMERGING PARADIGMS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION What do Empathy and Emotional Intelligence have to do with Change?; S.Holt Changed Learning Needs: Some Radical Reflections on B-School Education; J.McHann What Makes Adult Education Compelling? Diversity as Enrichment Strategy; J.Marques An Interdisciplinary Approach on Wisdom Transfer in Work and Learning Environments using Storytelling to Inspire Positive Change; S.Dhiman PART III: EMERGING PARADIGMS: NEW HORIZONS Including the Global Context: Enlarging Our Horizons through Cultural Training; T.Koybaeva We're not in Kansas Anymore: Going Global with an (African) American Business; V.L.Andrews The Virtue of Integrity through an Individual or Collective Cultural Lens: Ethical Leaders make Reliable Business; D.Gifford Connecting with the Future: Embracing the Millennials; S.Holt