In Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness B.T. Swami invites us to enter into the realm of empowered conscious leadership. He challenges us to go beneath the surface and recognize the authentic needs of those we lead. His insights set the bar high, demonstrating why leadership is essential, how to be an empowered leader, and the powerful legacy this creates, both in the world and within the hearts of those we lead. Please open your hearts to this treasure chest of wisdom. Let us raise ourselves and the world around us towards a higher level of consciousness, peace and compassion. His Holiness Radhanatha Swami Spiritual Guide, Author and Activist In this sequel to his internationally acclaimed Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness: Administration from a Metaphysical Perspective, His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami explores the greatness of two famous leaders from the Vedic tradition of ancient India.Addressing the leader within each of us, B.T. Swami shows us that the greatest leaders see themselves as servants first, they place integrity and character before personal gain, and the know how to tap into the help that is available from both the earthly and spiritual realms. True servant leaders are animated visionaries who cultivate divine power to transform diverse individuals with scattered goals into communities with a unified, sacred mission."Good leadership is not just a matter of making things happen; it is a matter of making essential things happen, making important and productive things happen, and helping people feel good about what is happening. Leaders need to have a vision, but they also need to know how to convince others that their vision can manifest, and how to empower them to participate in the mission of bringing the vision about. --Excerpt from Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness, Vol. 2

Leadership in any capacity has taken on such awesome proportions that even the best leaders must find innovative and creative ways to deal with today’s complex situations. Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness is a groundbreaking self-help manual written for those who seek to develop a more penetrating perspective and greater effectiveness in the leadership process. This book is relevant for heads of government, organizations and families, and for anyone seeking greater insight into self-leadership.

Madhurya-Kadambini (Cloud Bank of Nectar), by the renowned Gaudiya Vaisnava acarya Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, is a short work, and it is a commentary on an even shorter work – just two verses that appear in Srila Rupa Gosvami’s Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu.

Leadership in any capacity has taken on such awesome proportions that even the best leaders must find innovative and creative ways to deal with today’s complex situations. Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness is a groundbreaking self-help manual written for those who seek to develop a more penetrating perspective and greater effectiveness in the leadership process. This book is relevant for heads of government, organizations, and families, and for anyone seeking greater insight into self-leadership.

As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and grapples to find ways to respond to climate change, there is growing recognition of the need to give space and time in primary schools to hear children’s experiences, ideas and perspectives on these matters and to promote their active participation in democratic solutions. This book presents vibrant examples from professional educators and researchers across the globe who are demonstrating how primary schools can nurture the conditions for new democratic education through empowering educators’ and children’s voices and agency. Written as a genuine partnership between research experts and experienced classroom teachers, the book delves into historic and contemporary theories and evidence about the children’s voices movement, and new democratic education, helping to root teachers’ practices to strong educational theoretical concepts. The second section presents a set of diverse and detailed examples drawn from primary classrooms and schools that illustrate how these ideas are taking shape in teaching and learning across the world; chapters will bring to life the principles upon which schools have empowered young voices, sharing examples of success and thriving students. Finally, a set of thought-provoking manifestos will offer new opportunities and fresh theories for educators to explore, with the purpose and intention to take forward in their own primary school contexts. This is a vital resource for any new or experienced teacher or school leader looking to take research-informed and principled approaches to changes in schools so that teaching and learning ignites the social imagination for 21st-century educators and learners.

This two-volume set examines the need for a consciousness-based view of leadership, which emphasizes universal human flourishing, as opposed to a resource-based view, which focuses on sustaining a competitive advantage. This approach is built around three main principles: 1) Paradigm (Consciousness is primary, including complementary existence of opposites), 2) Social/Interpersonal (focusing on empathy and compassion), and 3) Individual (experiencing Oneness and expressing creativity). Volume Two is divided into two sections. Each section offers a mix of qualitative and quantitative studies. The first section focuses on consciousness-based development of organizational capabilities such as ambidexterity, flow, and work-life balance. The second section is focused on organizational interventions such as reinvention, meaning-making, well-being, and sustainability. Aligning leadership practices with the notion of an unbounded consciousness, this edited collection will extend literature on organizational culture, leadership, and sustainability, contributing to solving the grand challenges facing humanity.

B.T. Swami is my dearest friend, brother and inspiration. Over thirty years, I closely witnessed in him a truly brilliant leader. Compassion was the principle of his life.He genuinely cares. His devoted studies and his lifetime of service has inspired penetrating insight and profound wisdom that transcends all political, racial or sectarian barriers. His message is accessible, practical and non-judgmental. During his life, B.T. Swami guided people of multi backgrounds, from university students to villagers in Africa, from corporate heads to the inner city downtrodden. He was a friend and guide to many world leaders including Nelson Mandela and Muhammed Ali. In Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness B.T. Swami invites us to enter into the realm of empowered conscious leadership. He challenges us to go beneath the surface and recognize the authentic needs of those we lead. His insights set the bar high, demonstrating why leadership is essential, how to be an empowered leader, and the powerful legacy this creates, both in the world and within the hearts of those we lead. Please open your hearts to this treasure chest of wisdom. Let us raise ourselves and the world around us towards a higher level of consciousness, peace and compassion. His Holiness Radhanatha Swami Spiritual Guide, Author and Activist Leadership in any capacity has taken on such awesome proportions that even the best leaders must find innovative and creative ways to deal with today's complex situations. Leadership for an Age of Higher Consciousness: Administration from a Metaphysical Perspective is a ground breaking self-help manual written for those who seek to develop a more penetrating perspective and greater effectiveness in the leadership process. This book is relevant for heads of government, organizations and families, and for anyone seeking greater insight into self-leadership."An example in the truest sense of global principle-centered leadership, Swami Krishnapada (Bhakti Tirtha Swami) manages to take consciousness-raising to its highest platform of self-realized actuality in humanizing the workplace. My experience in working with all of the nations of the world convinces me that such a book is the corporate leadership guide for the coming millennium. The Honorable Pierre Adossama Director, Labor Relations (Retired) International Labor Organization, United Nations

Insights on Leadership, Volume 2: Developing Leaders is the second in a series of sets of interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of leadership. Includes interviews with Riane Eisler, Susanne Cook-Greuter, Leo Burke, Bill Torbert, and Fred Kofman.

This book is the second volume in a series presenting new English translations of L.S. Vygotsky’s writings on the holistic science of the child he called “pedology”. It presents unique materials which reflect the development of Vygotsky’s theoretical position at the last stage of his creative evolution in 1932-1934 and contributes to the number of original Vygotsky texts available in English. It includes the problem of age and age periodization; the structure and dynamics of age, psychological characteristics of age crises and diagnostics of development in relation to age, and the zone of proximal development, which became his most widely known but least understood theoretical innovation. This book places that concept in its context and makes it fully understandable for the first time. In addition, there are lectures and notes that Vygotsky made in preparation for lectures on six critical periods: birth, one year old, three, seven, and thirteen. Vygotsky also devotes chapters to the stable periods of infancy and early childhood and two whole chapters to school age. Future volumes in this series will explore Vygotsky’s pedology of the adolescent.