Excerpts We've provided you with both high resolution and lower resolution downloads for a chance to see some of Patrick Warneka's powerful pictures from The Way of Leading People. (The picture for verse #37 is one of Tim Warneka's favorites!) Please chose the resolution you download based on your internet connection speed. From the foreword by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, co-founder and president of Strozzi Institute and author of 5 books including In Search of the Warrior Spirit and the new Leadership Dojo : "Of all the editions of the Tao Te Ching that I’ve carried over these years, Patrick and Tim Warneka’s The Way of Leading People is by far the most innovative and daring. The stunning photographs of urban cityscapes instead of nature aren’t the only things that make the book unique. There’s also the emphasis on a compassionate, post-rational leadership that builds a dynamic relevancy for the sustainability of the planet and the human race..." Download Richard Strozzi-Heckler's entire foreword (493 KB). ******* Tim Warneka on "Post-Rational Leadership, Lao Tzu, and the Tao Te Ching": In his wisdom, Master Lao understood something 2500 years ago that we in the West are only now just beginning to appreciate: that rational thinking is not the final stage of human development. While the Western world has long held rational thought to be the epitome of human development, new research is in agreement with Master Lao, pointing to other ways of thinking beyond (read: better than) rationality ... Read Tim Warneka's full essay on "Post-Rational Leadership, Lao Tzu, and the Tao Te Ching"! (520 KB) ******* ONE "The Way of Leading People that can be fully explained is never True Leadership. An element of mystery must remain. Ways of Leading People that can be completely understood are not the eternal Ways. True Leadership begins with words and ends in the Wordless. The doorway to eternal mystery." Download Verse ONE for a preview of Patrick Warneka's AMAZING photography! (high resolution, 2.28 MB) Download Verse ONE (low resolution, 900 KB) ******* TWENTY-THREE "A wise leader speaks less than she listens. What good is an open-door policy with a closed-minded leader? A thunder clap does not last an hour; a snowstorm does not last a month. Why is this? This is the way of Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make things last forever, should leaders try and do otherwise? " ******* TWENTY-FIVE "The Way is great; The Kosmos is great; Planet Earth is great; The leader is also great. These are the four great powers of existence. Leaders must follow Earth, for Earth follows the Kosmos, which follows the Way. The Way follows nothing but itself." Download Verse TWENTY-FIVE for a preview of Patrick Warneka's AMAZING photography! (high resolution, 1.25 MB) Download Verse TWENTY-FIVE (low resolution, 612 KB) ******* THIRTY-SEVEN "Great leaders practice non-action, yet everything is completed. What do you mean by “practicing non-action”? Not using force. Trusting people to do what they were hired to do. This is called “practicing non-action.” If managers and supervisors understood this, all departments would rise to their strengths. In this way: Success!" Download Verse THIRTY-SEVEN (low resolution, 691 KB) ******* SIXTY-NINE "A wise leader leads without appearing to lead— directs without using force. Warriors of old understood this wisdom, “To win without fighting is best.” By never fighting, the great leader always wins." |  |