A Book by Darwin Gillett

Noble Enterprise

The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People and Profits

With the Inspiring Story of One
Uncommon Corporate Turnaround

by Darwin Gillett
Co-author of 
Create the Business Breakthrough You Want

We live in an era when people seek more meaning in their work, companies seek more effective ways to create sustainable growth and profitability, and society wonders if business will be about greed and unethical practices, or will play a positive role in society.  Meanwhile CEOs face the challenge of serving multiple stakeholders and the need to improve business performance - faster than ever. To respond to these challenges and to succeed in today’s business world, leaders need to create noble enterprises that draw forth and utilize the full range of human energies. Noble Enterprise shows how. It describes:

• The Inner Sources of Competitive Advantage – and Why some companies falter as they focus only on the Outer determinants of success
  
  
• The Five Energies of highly successful organizations – and how to attract and fully employ all of these energies
  
  
• The Noble Business Enterprise Model with its Five Pillars of Inner Power with examples of these Noble Businesses and how they are succeeding in today’s global business world
  
  
• The Noble Leader – his/her Inner Character and Seven Roles in leading companies to greater heights of service and performance
  
  
• Ten Steps for building a Noble Business: with examples from successful noble enterprises.

Plus: The Inspiring Story of how one near-death company (losing one million dollars a day!) used the principles of Noble Enterprise to turn their company into an industry leader, in the process achieving huge leaps in employee morale, quality and market growth and profitability - all in just three years.

Noble Enterprise is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2008.

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Widespread Praise for
Noble Enterprise

“Noble Enterprise is:
No Bull.
Noble.
Nobel.

Buy it and feed your Soul."

Martin Rutte, co-author Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work

"Why are major corporations inviting poets, actors, painters and symphony conductors to work with their senior leadership team? Because the traditional patterns of leadership simply aren’t providing the results demanded by stakeholders.

Gillett’s Noble Enterprise provides the framework together with a concrete success story of how the leaders of one company not only revitalized their organization but achieved breakthrough performance. It is a “must read” for serious students and practitioners of leadership.”

Ken Bardach, Associate Dean and Charles and Joanna Knight Distinguished Director of Executive Programs, Olin School of Business, Washington University (MO)

"Gillett’s book pioneers a new area of crucial importance in managing knowledge-based companies. In his convincing presentation on the emerging field of human economics and the new work ethic, he brings us state-of-the-art thinking and challenges us to do better and be better.”

George Starcher, Secretary General, European Baha’i Business Forum, 
retired Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company (France)

"The latest experiments in Physics demonstrate that "reality" is comprised of interconnected energy. This has profound ramifications for business and leadership.

Dar Gillett has organized a set of business principles based on this energy view of reality and on his research of successful companies and their leaders. These clear and practical principles show ways to tap the full range of human energy (including the firm’s Spiritual Capital) to improve the bottom line and employee job satisfaction and development.”

Barbara Williams, CEO Image Content Technology, LLC (RI)

“Sustainable business success requires building the right kind of human relationships – both within a company and with all of its constituencies. When those relationships - and the entire business - are powered by noble intentions, noble ethics and noble actions, great things happen. People and companies become passionate about their work: fully alive, energized and focused on what matters most. Gillett’s book describes how leaders can build those relationships, and is illustrated by a great case example of a turnaround company. This book will change how we think about business, how we shape business relationships, and how we lead business. I’m recommending it to all my business clients. Gillett's vision of noble enterprise is a model for 21st century business success.”

Joe Bavonese, PhD, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Relationship Institute and Co-Director of Uncommon Practices (MI)

"International Merger and Acquisitions are fraught with danger. Overpaying for an asset is an obvious risk, but the challenge of true integration is an even greater one. Without cultural sensitivity and a clear vision, integration will fail, and value will be destroyed. Such a vision must have as its basis universal ethical standards, and the ability to enthuse the entire merged entity with energy. Dar Gillett's book, The Noble Enterprise, delivers a framework that will allow business leaders to construct such a critical philosophy for all their stakeholders, through honesty, clarity and belief. If you are serious about growing your business, you should read this book."

Neil Collen, Partner, Livingstone Partners, London, England

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