The Leadership of Civilization Building: Administrative and Civilization Theory, Symbolic Dialogue, and Citizen Skills
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The Leadership of Civilization Building: Administrative
and Civilization Theory, Symbolic Dialogue, and Citizen Skills
for the 21st Century
(ISBN: 0-9700534-9-5)
The Leadership of Civilization Building is a virtual
manual for social architects and creative civilization builders.
It provides leaders with the tools--conceptual and social--to
help them "talk" symbolically with their audiences about
the improvement of their own institutions and societies as a whole.
Richard Spady, a student and practitioner of Administrative
Theory, is president of the Forum Foundation. A Seattle businessman,
he co-founded Dick's Drive-in Restaurants in 1954 and currently
is its president. Spady remains active in Seattle community affairs.
The Rev. Dr. Richard S. Kirby is executive director of
the Stuart C. Dodd Institute for Social Innovation in Seattle,
and taught business ethics at University of Washington's School
of Business Administration. He is an international lecturer and
also chair of the World Network of Religious
Contents:
The Foreword
and Preface and Index can be viewed using this link to a .PDF
file
Section I: Theory Building
Introduction to Civilization Building
1. General Administrative Theories: Ten Dynamics of Governance
and Administration
Theory 1 : The Basic Attitude in Civilization Building
Theory 2: The Theory of Learning
Theory 3 : The Theory of Leadership
Theory 4: The Theory of Authority
Theory 5 : The Theory of Politics
Theory 6: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Theory 7: The Administrative Process
Theory 8 : The Helping Professions
Theory 9: The Zeitgeist Principle
Theory 10: The Natural Factors of Governance, Administration,
and Communication
2. General Civilization Theories: Intro to New Emerging Theories
of Civilization Building
Theory 11: The Unified Social Field Theory
Theory 12: Social Quantum Mechanics
Theory 13: A Theory of Civilization
Section II: Technology Building
1. Many-To-Many Communication and Zeitgeist Communication
2. The Fast Forum Technique and How it Works
3. Examples of Fast Forum Projects
4. Potential Applications of the Fast Forum Technique
5. Citizens, Communication, and Civilization Building
Epilogue
Appendices
Endnotes
Index
