Praise for NOBLE ENTERPRISE: The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People & Profits
"What an exciting book! Noble Enterprise provides the reader with a profound and enlightened worldview which fundamentally changes the way we see the reality of corporate success. Real change begins when we correctly see the underlying factors. Author Dar Gillett offers a way of shifting values and leadership focus to create a more evolved way of doing business. He gives us a clear map of how to do just that and a stunning example demonstrating that it works!"
Patricia B. Corbett, Co-Founder and President, The Mindshift Institute, Past CEO of Griswold-Bateman, An International Distribution Corporation
"Dar Gillett in Noble Enterprise has gone far beyond a "How to do it" book. It is the best "Who Done It" book I’ve read in years, exciting in its tales of real life characters and exciting events. It is profoundly personally relevant as it peels away the onion rings of each Noble Enterprise leaving us to understand not only the keys to success but in addition how that dose of tender loving care with which we approach the task makes for a great cake.
Enjoy!
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Dale Emerson, CEO, Archibel SA
"An inspiring blend of ideas, examples and pragmatics. Gillett artfully incorporates wisdom, spirit and practice. He gives the reader a practical guide to a healthy, functional and vital organization."
John Renesch,business futurist, author, Getting to the Better Future, co-editor, Learning Organizations, editor, Leadership in a New Era
"Gillett just widened the goal posts for organizational success! His Noble Enterprise leverages the potential of human interaction in fostering sustainable corporate effectiveness."
Jack F. Haren, President, Mohawk Fine Paper
"When an executive with hands on business experience extols the benefits of ethical values and spiritual capital, take note and read! Noble Enterprise makes many of today’s cutting edge business concepts come pragmatically alive."
David A. Schwerin, Ph.D., President, Institute for Ethical Awareness, author of Conscious Globalism: What’s wrong with the world and how to fix it.
"International Merger and Acquisitions are fraught with danger. Overpaying for an asset is an obvious risk, but the challenge of true integration is an even greater one. Without cultural sensitivity and a clear vision, integration will fail, and value will be destroyed. Such a vision must have as its basis universal ethical standards, and the ability to enthuse the entire merged entity with energy. Dar Gillett's book, Noble Enterprise, delivers a framework that will allow business leaders to construct such a critical philosophy for all their stakeholders, through honesty, clarity and belief. If you are serious about growing your business, you should read this book."
Neil Collen, Partner, Livingstone Partners, London
"Gillett has chosen to focus on the human dynamics of business success – not on psychological gimmicks, manipulative programs, or sophistic explanations, but on the fundamentals that drive human performance and sustain it."
Robert H. Schaffer, founder, Robert H. Schaffer & Associates
"Gillett’s book pioneers a new area of crucial importance in managing knowledge-based companies. In his convincing presentation on the emerging field of human economics and the new work ethic, he brings us state-of-the-art thinking and challenges us to do better and be better."
George Starcher, Secretary General, European Baha’i Business Forum, former Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
"Noble Enterprise is:
No Bull.
Noble.
Nobel.
Buy it and feed your Soul.
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Martin Rutte, co-author Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work/p>
"Dar deftly delves into the head and heart of this significant transformation effort. He has accurately captured the full impact of an inspirational leader on truly transforming a complex organization. This is a fascinating journey from cover to cover that provides both organizational and personal insights. Any change agent, in any organization, will find this useful and all of us can learn what true leadership looks like."
David Sissons, Vice President Hay Group Insight and Reward Information Services Canada – Hay Group
"This is a book about the genius of AND... it takes on the challenge many of us were never taught in business school...we can be tough disciplined business people AND we can treat our employees like we want our sons, daughters, spouses and ourselves treated. Bill Catucci found a way to combine science and soul to create not just a noble enterprise, but a way for every leader to run a successful business, go home at night and be proud of not only WHAT he or she did, but also of HOW they did it. Dar Gillett does an excellent job of capturing not only the lessons and fundamentals of how to run a noble enterprise but also the intrinsic rewards it brings to visionary leaders who undertake this challenge."
Renato Discenza, former Vice President Business Transformation, AT&T Canada; former Senior Vice President, Bell Canada
"Darwin Gillett’s Noble Enterprise shows you how you can bring the very best of who you are to your job rather than leaving it at the door. He has effectively linked the intersection between humanity and profits."
Peter D. Moore, Business Strategy Advisor, Founder, Snowmass Forum
"In Noble Enterprise, Dar Gillett talks about aspects of leadership that most people ignore and provides a concrete example of how lofty values can translate into powerful results. It's not your conventional approach to management success -- but if your company needs to do things differently, this book might provide some fresh inspiration."
Ron Ashkenas, Managing Partner, Robert H. Schaffer & Associates, Co-author of The Boundaryless Organization, The GE Work-Out, and Rapid Results
"Dar Gillett is uniquely qualified to write about the Noble Enterprise because he has spent years living and practicing these principles. Interconnection and collaboration have been major themes and priorities in his life and work. This book provides a new and more compassionate way of thinking about business and the human beings who function in it."
Carol Coutrier, President & CEO, The Launching Pad & Co., President, Massachusetts Specialty Foods Association, and Finalist for 1995 New England Women Business Owner’s Business Woman of the Year award
"A complete "how to" manual for nurturing the soul of your business."
Earl Potter, Manager and Co-Founder, Five & Dime General Stores
"We help people – whether employees of our businesses or citizens of our state - not merely by providing material benefits, but even more so by empowering them to become more and achieve more on their own. Gillett’s Noble Enterprise embodies this truth and helps business owners and executives apply it in their businesses. Read it and uplift your people and your profits!"
State Senator Paula Benoit, former owner of Magnolia Gift Store and Baby Magnolia Children's Clothing in Bath, Maine
"The latest experiments in Physics demonstrate that "reality" is comprised of interconnected energy. This has profound ramifications for business and leadership. Dar Gillett has organized a set of business principles based on this energy view of reality and on his research of successful companies and their leaders. These clear and practical principles show ways to tap the full range of human energy (including the firm’s Spiritual Capital) to improve the bottom line and employee job satisfaction and development. "
Barbara Williams, CEO Image Content Technology, LLC
"An outstanding guidebook for future "Start-up Companies," their management and the implementation of "Ethical Standards." This book should become a "must read."
Dr. Klaus-Peter Reiner, Former Vice President Sales and Marketing, LONZA GmbH, Managing Director, MWK GmbH
"Sustainable business success requires building the right kind of human relationships – both within a company and with all of its constituencies. When those relationships – and the entire business – are powered by noble intentions, noble ethics and noble actions, great things happen. People and companies become passionate about their work: fully alive, energized and focused on what matters most. Gillett’s book describes how leaders can build those relationships, and is illustrated by a great case example of a turnaround company. This book will change how we think about business, how we shape business relationships, and how we lead business. I’m recommending it to all my business clients. Gillett’s vision of noble enterprise is a model for 21st century business success."
Joe Bavonese, PhD, Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Relationship Institute and Co-Director of Uncommon Practices
