The Wisdom of Wolves: Principles for Creating Personal Success and Professional Triumphs - Hardcover

Towery, Twyman L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570712069 ISBN 13: 9781570712067

Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Uses wolves and wolf packs as examples to explain how the strength of an organization depends on the strengths of the individuals in it

About this title

About the Author:

Twyman L. Towery, Ph.D., is President of Towery Communications, a business consulting organization located in Tennessee.

From Publishers Weekly:

This brief, easily digested book uses the ways of wild wolf packs as a metaphor for achieving business, family and personal success. Towery, a business and organizational consultant, clearly conveys the sense of life in a wolf pack, its organizational structure and strategies for survival. With intermittent quotes, anecdotes and simple exercises for relating the wolf pack to business organizations and families, the author explores such values and virtues as patience, curiosity, loyalty, communication, perseverance and learning from failures. Towery notes that "while human social order seems to be falling apart... the organization of the wolf pack remains the model of playfulness, teamwork, efficiency, and sharing." While their numbers have dwindled considerably (thanks to humans), wolves have maintained a consistent and effective culture, even while adapting to environmental changes. Practicing a kind of "natural population control" and living always "in balance with nature," wolves, Towery asserts, have values that "are never compromised." Wolves remain devoted to the group and affectionate, and place the education and care of their young above all else. There is much to learn from these creatures, Towery asserts, illustrating simply but powerfully how people can incorporate wolves' successful strategies into human organizations.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1570712069
• ISBN 13: 9781570712067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160