Transforming War Myths

How does your workplace feel:

Demanding, ungrateful, and oppressive or challenging, appreciative, and stimulating? Is the style of management autocratic or participative?

Instead of a management that behaves like adolescents and treats workers as children, imagine a workplace where consciousness, not just the profit margin, grows. Join Hal Bolton in a peaceful, global revolution toward a rewarding career and awareness.

Hal Bolton, author of Transforming War Myths in the Workplace and an experienced manager/executive and consultant, explains how different styles of management affect company culture—for better or worse. In eye-opening analyses, Bolton demonstrates how levels of awareness among workers, managers, and executives shape the company culture and how they can be transformed for a better workplace and increased productivity.

Hal Bolton now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he continues to blend practical and metaphysical considerations.

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What Others are Saying about this Book

  • Michael J. Gelb
  • Craig S. Barnes
  • Susan Collin Marks
  • Oscar Arias
  • Larry Dossey, MD

Hal Bolton understands that consciousness is the most valuable resource in business today. In this book, he makes a compelling case for investing in this precious asset. The potential return for individuals and society is profound.

         —Michael J. Gelb
Author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci

“In this remarkable time when the world is engaged in the first truly global conversation about the evidence and justification for war, Hal Bolton, in Transforming War Myths In the Workplace, has given us tools for a breakthrough. Nothing could be more timely. As Baghdad burns and America’s leaders begin talk of expanding democracy into Iran and North Korea, millions have gone to the streets in inarticulate and despairing response. Bolton, by contrast, has taken the articulate route, leading us to psychology and myths of history to give us a new way of seeing what we are up to, and in that, a positive way forward.

He puts missiles and casualties, statistics and summaries into a framework we can all understand—that of human maturation. He points the way forward, up the ladder of human growth, not as a peacenik or pacifist but as a hard-headed corporate realist dead- set on survival. Himself a former manufacturing CEO and long-time business consultant who spent a lifetime spreading the tools for listening in the business environment, he makes these recommendations not because they are idealistic but because they work. This analysis spans the world from productivity to compassion and brings us into a desperately important and thoughtful conversation about the uses and limits of war. It is a conversation upon which, in the nuclear age, the future of the species may depend.”

Craig S. Barnes
Former trial lawyer and international mediator in Moscow, the Caucuses, and Central Asia and author of In Search of the Lost Feminine, Growing Up True, and Democracy at the Crossroads

“Many companies are embattled communities, prisoners in an endless war of cutthroat competition, their standing orders—to serve the bottom line. Management and workers alike see no alternative, their lines of retreat seemingly cut off by the overwhelming power of this war culture. Now Hal Bolton has come to the rescue, a white knight with a string of dragon’s teeth around his neck, souvenirs of his decades-long exploration of how to free corporations from these prevailing war myths, offering instead peace myths that foster cooperation and mutual respect. With precision and clarity, he cuts through the defensive lines to show how win-win business practices lead to increased prosperity, productivity and peace.

He infuses us with hope by demonstrating that each of us can make a profound difference simply by changing our awareness, and he inspires us with stories that detail how individual and collective heightened awareness has transformed workplaces across the country. Transforming War Myths In the Workplace is about dignity in the workplace—and in our lives. That’s why it is essential reading.”

Susan Collin Marks
Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground, author of Watching the Wind: conflict resolution during South Africa’s transition to democracy

“Hal Bolton’s Transforming War Myths in the Workplace is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between war and levels of awareness. I commend his research and his insight, and recommend this book to all who want to understand better why the world continues to make war, even though we have the means of peace at our disposal.”

Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate

“We seem to be at a crossroad in our nation’s history. Will we increasingly rely on militarism and preventive war as a way of being in the world, or can we craft a way out of the barbarism and terror of armed conflict? In Transforming War Myths in the Workplace, Hal Bolton not only poses these questions but offers answers as well. He shows how the seeds of war lie in the hearts of everyone, and why solutions to conflict are ultimately personal. Our fate—as individuals, as a nation, as a species—depends on how successfully we confront the issues Bolton raises.”

Larry Dossey, MD
Author of Space, Time and Medicine, Beyond Illness, Recovering the Soul, Healing Words, and Prayer Is Good Medicine, and executive editor of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

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