When the Canary Stops Singing

Just as canaries once warned miners of unhealthy conditions underground, women in today's corporate marketplace are sounding a caution that our business survival depends on making far-reaching changes in the business environment.
This collection of provocative, timely, and encouraging essays proposes ways to transform the traditional workplace into a more wholesome and balanced environment that honors masculine and feminine traits as equally vital. The fifteen women-entrepreneurs, consultants, and corporate executives-who offer these provocative and practical essays serve as harbingers of essential business transformation. As varied as their backgrounds and perspectives may be, these women see a common need and share a common goal-to create more humane and nurturing workplaces.
Truth and a willingness to risk are benchmarks of the fifteen insightful essays, as is the search for personal and spiritual freedom. The authors speak of individual responsibility and a balance among all the areas of one's life. Work becomes an arena for self-discovery. The controlling "power over" becomes life-nurturing "power to," and steps for creating a full and productive partnership between men and women are defined. In proposing new and more effective ways to succeed in business, When the Canary Stops Singing explodes the myth that feminine and masculine perspectives can't interact in harmony.

Foreword: Patricia Aburdene and John Naisbitt
Introduction: Women as Harbingers of Business Transformation, Pat Barrentine

Part I: Interdependence and the Organic Metaphor
1. Women, Men, and Management: Redesigning Our Future, Riane Eisler
2. Love at Work, Carol Frenier
3. Organizational Gardening: A Metaphor for the New Business Paradigm, Kathleen Keating

Part II: Balance, Harmony, and Nurturing the Spirit
4. Balance: The Ultimate Challenge for the 21st Century, Marie Kerpan
5. Corporate Poverty: Lessons from Refugee Camps, Barbara Shipka
6. The Workplace As Spiritual Haven, Kim McMillen
7. Values for the Global Marketplace: A Quest for Quality with a Difference, Jacqueline Haessly

Part III: Creating Networks, Support Systems, and a Spirit of Community
8. Helping Your Dream Job Find You, Jan Nickerson
9. Organizational Renewal Through a Hunger for Meaning, Anne Lippitt Rarich
10. Chaos to Community: One Company's Journey of Transformation, Jeanne Borei
11. A World We've Only Dreamed Of, Hope Xaviermineo

Part IV: Openness, Intuition, and the Process of Change
12. Creativity at Work, Cheryl Harrison
13. Intuition in the Midst of Change: A Key to Success in Business, Mitani D'Antien
14. New Listening: Key to Organizational Transformation, Barbara Fittipaldi
15. Seven Keys to Conscious Leadership, Sabina Spencer
Conclusion: The Courage To Act, Pat Barrentine