Business Administration Education

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