APPLES ARE SQUARE [Hardcover]

Featuring a foreword by Deepak Chopra and interviews with dozens of leadership pioneers, this book provides a seven-step prescription for creating a compassionately competitive work culture. This groundbreaking strategy shows how collaborators, not controllers, dare to create success by reshaping the workplace in unexpected ways, with a focus on topics such as humility, compassion, inclusiveness, and values-based decisiveness. The interviewees include Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist; Mary Ellen Weber, former NASA astronaut; and Chris Zorich, former NFL star.

“Presents the model of leadership necessary to move from the information age to the knowledge-based and ultimately, to a wisdom-based culture. The future depends on the survival of the wisest and on leadership that is based on inner values.”  —Deepak Chopra, author,The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“An effective case for risk-taking within a framework of humanity.”  —Business Week

“Serving others, helping others, and inspiring others to bring out their inner core of strengths and talents are what the new definition of success is all about.”  —Fast Company

“Susan and Thomas Kuczmarski have made an important contribution to our understanding of leadership with their new book.  It is a work of great substance and relevance that provides not just an entry point for talking about models of leadership, but real profiles of those who have used these models to transform their own organizations and the people within them.”  —Donald P. Jacobs, dean emeritus, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University