How do we build a better world for our children, our businesses, our
society, and ourselves? F. David Peat's latest book provides a clear
answer: exercise more effective, creative, and noninvasive action from
the local to the international level. Gentle Action shows ways in which
businesses can respond more effectively to a changing marketplace and
how organizations can grow more flexible, responsive, and sensitive to
the world around them. The book will be an invaluable resource for
everyone from CEOs, policy makers, and community leaders, to teachers
and parents. It shows how and why things go wrong when well-meaning but
inappropriate actions are taken. It provides examples of gentle actions
in operation and how the creative intervention of a single person can
end up being more effective than an aid program organized by a
multimillion-dollar organization. Each chapter presents a series of
questions and challenges for readers leading to ways in which they can
bring creative change to their community or organization.