José Stevens - The Power Path: The Shamans Way to Success in Business and Life

...a unique and extraordinary gift to Western culture.

A superb book, crammed full of practical advice.

Get ready to be delightfully surprised. This book will expand your horizons and inspire you each step of the way.

Todays world urgently needs to bring the medicine of the Spirit into the business world. The Power Path contributes to this task by connecting what has been seen as two opposites: shamanism which is devoted to service and business which is mistakenly thought of as just devoted to personal gain.

The Power Path is an excellent guide to living a better life. Jos and Lena have spent years studying knowledge, power, and spirituality and this book is an important means of sharing what has been learned. A gift from the heart....

The Power Path will help anyone interested in becoming a better manager or leader to understand and communicate with different types of people more effectively, develop greater awareness of opportunities, work cooperatively in teams, accept challenges, understand what is possible and realistic, and understand the behavior of adversaries in short, to build cooperation and effectiveness, lessen conflicts, and achieve better results.

If you examine the failure of many companies to perform to their fullest potential, you will find that they havent paid attention to the principles in this book. Drawing on lessons that have proven themselves over thousands of years, Stevens makes the power of ancient wisdom available for use in a modern business context. Its all about becoming more powerful, not in the sense of using forrce, but in the sense of bringing genuine vitality and effectiveness where it counts.

The Power Path sheds a bright clear light on the nature of power. Jos outlines the techniques and strategies that allow us to gather power and utilize it in an effective and responsible manner.

Philanthropists are people of power, and philanthropy means the love of humankind. Those who give and those who receive will enjoy this book for it reveals the true nature and place of power and how it can be used with integrity and honesty.

The concepts in The Power Path may seem a little simple; but, then again, they may just be simply true. Having just read the book, Im already referring back to it for reinforcement. I believe that Jos Stevens is on the right path.

Many of the most important lessons Ive learned in life have been taught to me by Jos and Lena Stevens.

Incorporating discipline, spirituality, and inner perspective is vital in our work field. This book lets you open your eyes wider to see people and events at a much deeper level.

Copyright 2002 by Jos Luis Stevens, Ph.D.
Edited by Michael Ashby and Marc Allen
Front cover design by Mary Beth Salmon
Text design and typography by Tona Pearce Myers

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stevens, Jos.
The power path : the shamans way to success in business
and life / Jos Stevens, with Lena Stevens.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-57731-217-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Interpersonal communication. 2. Shamanism. 3. Personnel
management. I. Title: Shamans way to success in business
and life. II. Stevens, Lena. III. Title.
HM1166.S74 2002
302.2dc21 2002001122

First Printing, May 2002
ISBN 1-57731-217-1
Printed in Canada on acid-free, partially recycled paper
Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.... The new leadership must be grounded in fundamentally new understandings of how the world works.

The World that we perceive, such as the self (our own ego), is nothing more than a descriptiona fantasy that only seems real due to our insistence in acting as though it were real.... If we stop our contradictory description of the world, which we construct daily, we see that it is the true path to freedom that allows us to construct better worlds for us to inhabit.