The Natural Advantage: Renewing Yourself

The Natural Advantage: Renewing Yourself

by Alan Heeks (Author)

Synopsis

In this book, Alan Heeks offers a new approach to work, a way for you to increase production whilst renewing your resources and fulfilling yourself in the process. Alan Heeks shows that the key to increasing your output sustainably is to move from a linear mechanistic mindset to a cyclical organic one: working with natural principles, not overriding them. People are an organization's greatest resource. However, just as in nature, these valuable resources are often over-used and depleted in the production process. The linear approach simply uses input to produce desired output, ignoring depletion or pollution caused by the choice of input and any waste by-products of the output. An organic approach chooses and uses resources where there is no waste and every output becomes a future input. A Natural Advantage sets out to show how important it is to maintain our human ground condition by balancing our physical, emotional, mental and inspirational energy, while demonstrating that adding natural forms of energy to our working life sustains our growth far more than any artificial stimulants can.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Published: 13 Jul 2000

ISBN 10: 185788261X
ISBN 13: 9781857882612

Author Bio
Alan Heeks is the founder-trustee of the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity and 132-acre organic farm, set on the Somerset/Dorset borders, and a trained facilitator for The Natural Step. He is a noted expert in sustaining high performance at work and the clients of his consultancy, Working Vision, include 3M, Mercury, Glaxo and BP as well as small businesses and public sector bodies. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in English from Oxford University. He lives in Hampshire in the south of England where he enjoys owning a wood.