For hundreds of millennia, thousands of tribal cultures have thrived throughout the planet, each possessing a unique Vision, derived from thousands of years of evolution. With their deep ties to the world around them they experienced a communion with life, which offered a spiritual sense of overwhelming interconnectedness with the land, the plants, the animals, and each other. But one culture evolved to dominate all others, and linear history was created. Now a new reality has been built over the former surface of the planet, not only altering the biosphere, but also what is available for us to interact with and relate to. We struggle with the meaningless daily rote duties of our jobs. We live sequestered lives in houses and apartments, cut off from our neighbors, woefully uninformed in a sea of trivial information. Unprecedented resource extraction and energy consumption is heralding the greatest mass extinction of plant and animal life, the likes of which has not been seen in the last 65 million years. Cultural Vision exposes the ancient roots of these challenges as it reveals a new direction for the future of humanity based upon cooperation, true human values, and cultural diversity.

This book provides a review and synthesis of contemporary theory and research on organizational culture. Chapters focus on a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to culture, identifying types of organizational cultures, tracing phases in cultural evolution. In addition, several chapters are devoted to dealing with practical applications, such as the processes of socialization and identification, as well as the management of culture in organizations.

Believing that the intellectual enterprise called philosophy is essentially a part of the cultural as well as historical experience of a people, that the concepts and problems that occupy the attention of philosophers placed in different cultural spaces or historical times generally derive directly from those spaces and times, and that philosophy, in turn, has been most relevant to the development of human cultures, the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye gives reflective attention in this book to some of the concepts and problems that in his view feature most prominently in the contemporary African cultural, social, political, and moral experience. Such concepts and problems include the following: political legitimacy, development, culture and the pursuit of science and technology, political corruption, democracy, representation and the politics of inclusion, the status of cultural values in national orientation, understanding globalization, and others. It is these topics that are covered in the essays collected in this book. The unrelenting pursuit of the speculative activity by the philosopher in most cases eventuates in normative proposals; these normative proposals often embody a vision-a vision of an ideal human society in terms of its values, politics, and culture. Vision, understood here, has human-not supernatural or divine-origination and involvement and requires action by human beings in order for it to come into reality. A vision may derive from sustained critical evaluation of a culture or some elements of it. Gyekye attempts an articulation of the visions of the essays contained in the book. Even though philosophical ideas and concerns are originally inspired by and worked out in a cultural milieu, it does not necessarily follow, Gyekye strongly believes, that the relevance of those ideas and insights is to be tetheed to the cultures that produced them. For, more often than not, the relevance of those ideas, or at least some of them, transcends the confines of their own times and cultures and can be appreciated by other societies, or cultures, or generational epochs. This trans-cultural or trans-epochal or meta-contextual appeal or attraction of philosophical ideas and insights spawned by a particular culture or cluster of cultures or in specific historical times is to be put down to our common human nature-including our basic human desires and aspirations. Thus, most of the essays published here should be of interest to the global community-i.e., to cultures and societies beyond the African.

Leadership vision of peoples culture and cross-culture book is critically conceptualized and designed with the central idea of exploring, analyzing, and discussing peoples cultural differences and variations that significantly impact leadership philosophy and vision all around the globe. It aims basically to inform and guide a very wide variety of audiences in many fields of business and life activity nationwide and worldwide. National and international organizations, whether they be public, semi-public, or private, operate in all industries of goods and services and involve different skills of human resources, levels of management, and complex environments using various levels of technology related to less or more developed intellectualism and vision of modern mankind. From this perspective, leadership vision of peoples culture and cross-culture book is an intellectual product which is presented in the context of critical thinking and structuration theories of human belief_value-system and cultural dimensions related, undertaking motives and behavior basically driven by cultural forces, invisible roots of totemic myth inherited by most of peoples culture or cross-culture , and time-orientation of culture and cross-culture affecting directly or indirectly the change process in the evolution of human history nationwide and worldwide. This intellectual product is the result of personal effort of the author to contribute constructively to the development and improvement of mankind perceptions, knowledge, vision, and cultural dimensions expansion. therefrom to the rational and reasonable sense of present and future leadership attributes, style, vision and appropriate time-orientation of interactional culture or cross-culture., altogether, to the benefit, welfare, and well-being of all human beings worldwide and where there is no room for peoples proven merit and rights discrimination at all.

A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians.

In this special issue of Trends in Communication management scholars share their ideas and research findings about the use of the community concept in the areas of knowledge management, organizational learning, innovation, and virtual learning. This fine collection of "community of practice" papers shows a variety of perspectives and applications on a new organizational phenomenon.