{"product_id":"9781490532653","title":"The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaran� Cultural Confluence","description":"(Note: This material appeared previously in \"Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters\" by the same author.) This historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South America, examines the creation of a flourishing culture and economy that lasted for almost two centuries. It explores the guided development of a virtuous web of social and economic controls that mixed the philosophy of Catholic Jesuit missionaries with the traditions of the native Guaraní peoples. An unprecedented experiment in progressive community-building may have once created that rarest of cultural treasures - a functional and stable utopia... ended only by outside pressures of conquest and exploitation. This is a living parable for our changing world, now suffering from seemingly-intractable political, cultural and economic turmoil... and struggling to be born into a tenuous future on uncertain threads of hope and despair. Rapid introduction of technology, educational systems, health care systems and social order have succeeded before - balancing competition and consumption in a new kind of community - and might be made to work again as we seek to create our own \"new economy.\" In this startling synthesis, Mr. Satterlee brings together and introduces: -historical records, -the social theories of the Catholic Church, -the management theories of Peter Drucker, -the psycho-social theories of Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics Integral, and -the economics ideas of William Lewis and the McKinsey Global Institute on \"the power of productivity.\"","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48530807783665,"sku":"9781490532653","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781490532653_p0.jpg?v=1786300628","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781490532653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}