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WORK TITLE: Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying
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PERSONAL
Born July 10, 1944, in Brooklyn, NY; married Cindy Spring.
EDUCATION:Adelphi University, two graduate degrees; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Shanti Project and Shanti National Training Institute, founder and former executive director. University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, clinical professor of psychology. Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, visiting scholar. Worked as computer scientist on Apollo 11. Has been instructor at C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and founding faculty member of Metta Institute (formerly Zen Hospice) end-of-life counselor training program. Greater Good, member of editorial board.
MEMBER:American Psychological Association (fellow).
AWARDS:National Activist of the Year; inducted into Pi Mu Epsilon, National Mathematics Honorary Society, and Adelphi University Alumni Academy of Distinction.
WRITINGS
Contributor to books, including The Soul of Business, and to print and online periodicals, including Greater Good. Creator of sound recordings, including Dying as an Altered State of Consciousness and Death Personalization Exercises.
SIDELIGHTS
Charles Garfield has had a long a varied career. Initially trained in mathematics and computer science, he was a computer scientist on Apollo 11, the space mission that resulted in the first moon landing. He then became a psychologist and professor. He taught for decades at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and he founded the Shanti Project, a volunteer organization serving people with AIDS and cancer, and the Shanti National Training Institute. “The combined experience of the many hundreds of organizations around the world modeled after Shanti has shown us that volunteers, and those organizations wise enough to use them fully, are capable of delivering much needed, high quality care for people facing life’s most difficult challenges,” he said on Shanti’s Web site. Much of his work has focused on end-of-life care, but he has also written extensively on the factors needed to produce excellence in business and athletics.
Peak Performers
In Peak Performers: The New Heroes of American Business, Garfield examines the attributes of successful corporate leaders. They have some of the characteristics associated with individualists, but also some of the traits of those who work best in collaboration, he writes. They are goal-oriented, and an organization should be able to encapsulate its goal in a single sentence, according to Garfield. “An individual peak performer’s bottom line … takes just one form: Make things happen toward goals, consistent with a mission, while developing oneself in the process,” he relates, adding: “The peak performer cultivates a mental environment in which he or she retains a clear image of the desired outcome; assumes the necessary risks and judges when and how to take initiative.”
Some critics considered Peak Performers enlightening. “Well conceived and unusually well written, it minimizes the outline form without being dull,” observed Henry Holtzman in Modern Office Technology. “It’s interesting throughout.” The book, he continued, “doesn’t overrate the psychological factors–nor does it underrate them.” In Inc., entrepreneur Patrick Kelly reported that his company had found Peak Performers useful. “This book really got us focused,” he commented.
Life's Last Gift
Garfield deals with another of his major interests in Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying, aimed at all end-of-life caregivers but especially friends and family members of people with terminal illnesses. Drawing on his experiences with his mother and father was well as patients at Shanti, he encourages his readers to try to understand what the dying person is thinking and feeling, so that care can come from a place of empathy. This can help heal broken relationships, he writes, although he notes that not all differences can be resolved. For instance, his mother considered suicide during her final illness, but he could not agree to assist her in it. He lays out nine commitments that friends and relatives should make to those facing death. “Listening from the heart” is one of the most important of these commitments, Garfield remarked in an article on the Web log of his publisher, Central Recovery Press. “Then speaking from the heart, acting from the heart, and caring for people with empathy—imaginatively getting inside the skin of people who are dying so you understand what’s going on,” he went on. “You learn that small things can mean a lot. Small things like showing up, paying attention, caring deeply.”
Life’s Last Gift is informative and compassionate, according to some critics. It “will give readers a place to go for comfort, direction, and answers,” observed a Publishers Weekly contributor. Deborah Bigelow, writing in Library Journal‘s online edition, added that this “comprehensive” guide provides “extensive resources to benefit both the living and the dying.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Inc., September, 1990, Patrick Kelly, review of Peak Performers: The New Heroes of American Business, p. 66.
Library Journal, February 1, 1998, Antoinette Brinkman, review of Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups, p. 103.
Modern Office Technology, June, 1986, Henry Holtzman, review of Peak Performers, p. 126.
Publishers Weekly, November 4, 1991, review of Second to None: How Our Smartest Companies Put People First; September 11, 2017, review of Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying, p. 62.
ONLINE
Central Recovery Press Blog, https://blog.centralrecoverypress.com/ (January 25, 2018), “Author Charles Garfield Introduces Life’s Last Gift.“
Charles Garfield Website, http://charlesgarfield.com (May 18, 2018).
Greater Good Magazine Website, https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ (May 18, 2018), brief biography.
Keynote Speakers Website, https://keynotespeakers.com/ (May 18, 2018), brief biography.
Library Journal Website, https://reviews.libraryjournal.com/ (October 12, 2017), Deborah Bigelow, review of Life’s Last Gift.
Premiere Speakers Website, https://premierespeakers.com/ (May 18, 2018), brief biography.
Shanti Project Website, http://www.shanti.org/ (May 18, 2018), brief biography.
World Class Speakers and Entertainers Website, http://www.wcspeakers.com/ (May 18, 2018), brief biography.
Quoted in Sidelights: “The combined experience of the many hundreds of organizations around the world modeled after Shanti has shown us that volunteers, and those organizations wise enough to use them fully, are capable of delivering much needed, high quality care for people facing life’s most difficult challenges,”
Charles Garfield, PhD
Shanti Project founder and
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Dr. Charles Garfield has been recognized internationally as the founder of Shanti, a widely acclaimed volunteer organization, and the Shanti National Training Institute (SNTI). For over thirty-five years, he has pioneered the development of service oriented volunteer organizations and the training of volunteers in a wide variety of applications. For his work with Shanti and for originating the Shanti model of peer support, Garfield was named National Activist of the Year—one of America’s highest awards to individuals making voluntary contributions in public service. He has also received recognition by cities and organizations large and small including a Mayor’s Day in his honor in San Francisco and many others.
Dr. Garfield serves as Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco (UCSF). A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, he is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Charles Garfield is the co-author of Training Volunteers for Community Service: The Step-by-Step Guide of the Shanti National Training Institute. He is also the author of Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS. While on the faculty of the Cancer Research Institute at UCSF, he was one of the early contributors to the burgeoning field of psychosocial oncology. Two of his books, Stress and Survival: The Emotional Realities of Life Threatening Illness and Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient, have been used as texts in many medical and nursing schools.
Charles Garfield began his career in computer science after receiving two graduate degrees in mathematics from Adelphi University as well as induction into Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Mathematics Honorary Society, and later, the Adelphi University Alumni Academy of Distinction. Dr. Garfield worked as a computer analyst on Apollo Eleven, our first lunar landing. It was as a member of the team that sent the first two astronauts to the moon that he learned how mission-driven teams can band together to accomplish extraordinary results. He then continued his education earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley prior to publishing ten books including the highly regarded peak performance trilogy on high achieving individuals, teams and organizations—Second to None, Peak Performers and Peak Performance. His honorary speeches include: Clinton White House conference; U.S. Olympic Committee and Head Coaches of Olympic Sports; and the Leadership of Oklahoma City following the tragic bombing of the federal building. Charles Garfield was an at-large member of the Board of Governors and is currently an instructor at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He serves on the editorial board of Greater Good, a national magazine from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Science and the Greater Good. He is also a founding faculty member of the Metta Institute (formerly Zen Hospice) end of life counselor training program.
Dr. Garfield has helped many community based, healthcare and religious organizations in the U.S. and abroad to fulfill their missions as exemplary service agencies. Of this work he says: “The combined experience of the many hundreds of organizations around the world modeled after Shanti has shown us that volunteers, and those organizations wise enough to use them fully, are capable of delivering much needed, high quality care for people facing life’s most difficult challenges. For over 35 years, Shanti’s work has demonstrated that volunteers – America’s invisible workforce - can learn to be tender on people and tough on problems as they serve those who need them most.”
To read articles written by Dr. Garfield, click here.
Charles Garfield is a psychologist, professor and lecturer, and the author of twelve books including LIFE’S LAST GIFT. He has been recognized internationally as the founder of Shanti Project, a widely acclaimed AIDS and cancer service organization (www.shanti.org). For more than forty years, he has pioneered the development of healthcare and social service oriented volunteer organizations in a wide variety of settings. Of these efforts, Garfield says: “Shanti’s work demonstrates that health professionals and volunteers (America’s largely unrecognized workforce) can learn to be tender with people and tough on problems as they serve those who need them most.”
A clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco (UCSF) for nearly four decades, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, he is currently a research scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Dr. Garfield has lectured widely, addressing audiences that include a Clinton White House conference, the U.S. Olympic Committee and Head Coaches of Olympic sports, and the leadership of Oklahoma City following the bombing of that city’s federal building.
Charles Garfield was born in Brooklyn, lives with his wife, Cindy Spring, in Northern California, and can be contacted at Charlie@charlesgarfield.com. He will be donating a portion of his earnings from LIFE’S LAST GIFT to Shanti Project.
Charles Garfield
Peak Performance Trilogy Author
Engineer on Apollo Eleven
Professional Development Specialist
In his keynote speech at a Clinton White House Conference, Charles Garfield began by saying, "My mission is to translate the real lessons of our nation's high achieving organizations and their people into consistent bottom line results."
He is author of the widely acclaimed Peak Performance trilogy, Peak Performers, Team Management and Second to None. His books focus on high performing individuals, teams and organizations respectively and established Dr. Charles Garfield as one of America's leading authorities on high achievement. Simply put, the trilogy constitutes a blueprint for leaders and teams pressured to continuously improve while doing more with less.
As a computer scientist and a member of a team of engineers, analysts and support staff on the Apollo Eleven project, our first lunar landing, Charles Garfield was part of a group of empowered people who went far beyond their previous results to legendary achievement. It was his work on the first moon-landing project that led to his discovery of the dynamics of peak performance.
For over thirty years, Charles Garfield has conducted one of the nation's most respected studies of business and nonprofit high achievers and their organizations. His conclusions form the basis of some of today's most forward thinking management strategies. Basic to his findings: Regardless of age, educational background, or profession, America's most productive people share the same set of basic skills, and these skills are learnable.
In Second to None, the only book ever chosen as a main selection twice by the Executive Program, America's most prestigious executive book club, Charles Garfield makes it clear that "in the competitive world of the twenty-first century, even yesterday's levels of service, quality and performance aren't enough."
Second to None breaks new ground by showing how our smartest, leanest, and most productive organizations compete in turbulent times by recruiting, rewarding, training, and retaining top talent. Diverse and committed people who realize that "total quality, superior service, continuous improvement, and peak performance pay, and average quality, service, improvement, and performance cost." Second to None has been called "a manifesto for organizational high performance in our time."
Team Management, published in German, shows how the most effective leaders in the U.S. and abroad develop and manage superior teams. Charles Garfield explains how employees of our most successful organizations supervise themselves, maintain product quality through their own efforts, solve most service problems before management ever sees them, and produce thousands of usable suggestions per year.
Charles Garfield's classic book, Peak Performers: The New Heroes of American Business, quickly became a Time bestseller and one of the most influential business books of the past two decades. Peak Performers, translated into twelve languages, continues to receive international acclaim as the most powerful and comprehensive statement to date on America's most effective business people.
Dr. Garfield's remarkable career is itself a study in the "how-to's" of high performance. He is co-founding editor (along with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard) of Executive Excellence, one of America's most important executive newsletters.
A strategy advisor to our nation's pre-eminent business and nonprofit leaders, Charles Garfield is an extraordinary speaker and one of America's most requested presenters. For example, he was invited to address the Leadership of Oklahoma City - after the bombing of the federal building - on the topic of rebounding from adversity.
Charles Garfield's unique power as a speaker comes from his hands-on experience as an executive and team leader in the profit and non-profit sectors Xwitnessing, learning, and demonstrating the key skills of superior service, quality and performance. This expertise was developed in two compelling and challenging contexts: The Apollo Eleven moon-landing and Shanti Project.
As founder and executive director of Shanti Project, the most successful organization in its field, he inspired service excellence for peak performers of another kind, patients and families facing life-threatening illness. His emphasis on total quality management and his results oriented leadership style made Shanti an internationally acclaimed volunteer organization. For his work with Shanti, Garfield was named National Activist of the Year, America's highest award to individuals making voluntary contributions to public service.
He applied his principles of high achievement to athletics and wrote the widely respected Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest Athletes. As a result, Charles Garfield was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as a keynote speaker for the esteemed Elite Coaches Symposium, addressing the head coaches of our Olympic sports.
Charles Garfield is a Clinical Professor at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco and is involved in the complex issues of healthcare leadership and reform.
He is CEO of the Charles Garfield Group, a consulting and educational firm specializing in strategies for superior service, quality and performance. His bold vision of the farther reaches of human performance brings him into frequent contact with leaders in business, healthcare, the nonprofit sector and government worldwide.
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Biography
In his keynote speech at a Clinton White House Conference, Charles Garfield, Ph.D., began by saying, "My mission is to translate the real lessons of our nation's high achieving organizations and their people into consistent bottom line results."
Dr. Garfield is author of the widely acclaimed Peak Performance trilogy, Peak Performers, Team Management and Second to None. His books focus on high performing individuals, teams and organizations respectively and established him as America's leading authority on business high achievement. Together they are a blueprint for managers and salespeople pressured to continuously improve while doing more with less.
As a computer analyst and leader of a team of engineers, scientists and support staff on the Apollo Eleven project, our first lunar landing, Dr. Garfield was part of a group of empowered people who went far beyond their previous results to legendary achievement. It was his work on the first moon landing project that led to his discovery of the dynamics of peak performance.
For over 25 years, Dr. Garfield has conducted the nation's most respected continuous study of business high achievers and their companies. His conclusions form the basis of some of today's most advanced management strategies. Basic to his findings are: Regardless of age, educational background, or profession, America's most productive people share the same set of basic skills, and these skills are learnable.
Dr. Garfield's remarkable career is itself a study in the how-to's of high performance. He is co-founding editor (along with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard) of Executive Excellence, one of America's most important executive newsletters.
A strategy advisor to our nation's preeminent business leaders, Dr. Garfield is an extraordinary speaker and one of America's most requested presenters.
His unique power as a speaker comes from his hands-on experience as an executive and team leader in the profit and non-profit sectors-witnessing, learning, and demonstrating the key skills of superior service, quality and performance. This expertise was developed in two compelling and challenging contexts: The Apollo Eleven moon landing and Shanti Project. As founder and CEO of Shanti Project, the most successful organization in its field, Dr. Garfield inspired service excellence for peak performers of another kind: patients and families facing life-threatening illness. His emphasis on total quality management and his results-oriented leadership style have made Shanti an internationally acclaimed volunteer organization. For his work with Shanti, he was named "National Activist of the Year," America's highest award to individuals making voluntary contributions to public service.
As an athlete,Dr. Garfield developed himself to world class levels and went on to write the widely respected Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World's Greatest Athletes. He was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as a keynote speaker for the esteemed Elite Coaches Symposium, addressing the head coaches of our Olympic sports.
Dr. Charles Garfield is a Clinical Professor at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco and is also involved in the complex issues of healthcare leadership and reform. He is CEO of the Charles Garfield Group, a consulting and educational firm specializing in reengineering strategies for superior service, quality and performance. His bold vision of the farther reaches of human performance bring him into frequent contact with leaders in business, healthcare and government worldwide.
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From his role as computer scientist on the Apollo Eleven first moon landing to his current consulting with corporate and healthcare leaders on restructuring and redesign, Dr. Garfield provides the tools needed to integrate first-rate service, speed, technology and employee / management partnership in a global marketplace.
Garfield has conducted the nation's most respected continuous study of business high achievers and their companies. His conclusions form the basis of some of today's most advanced management strategies. Basic to his findings are: regardless of age, educational background, or profession, America's most productive people share the same set of basic skills, and these skills are learnable.
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His unique power as a speaker comes from his hands-on experience as an executive and team leader in the profit and non-profit sectors - witnessing, learning, and demonstrating the key skills of superior service, quality and performance.
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Charles Garfield
Dr. Charles Garfield serves as Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco (UCSF). A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, he is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has been recognized internationally as the founder of Shanti, which has been at the forefront of a growing national movement to enhance the quality of life for persons living with life-threatening or chronic illnesses by providing volunteer-based emotional and practical support. His ten books include Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS and Stress and Survival: The Emotional Realities of Life Threatening Illness. He is a member of the Greater Good Science Center’s editorial board.
Life's Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying
Publishers Weekly.
264.37 (Sept. 11, 2017): p62. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2017 PWxyz, LLC http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Life's Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying Charles Garfield. Central Recovery, $15.95
trade paper (194p) ISBN 978-1-942094-50-0
Garfield (Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb), founder of the Shanti Project, a service organization dedicated to those with terminal illnesses, believes dying people need to hear someone say, "I will stand with you in the midst of despair." From this standpoint, he entreats caregivers of the dying to make nine commitments to themselves and their loved ones to "heal without cures." He encourages caregivers to be as present as possible by listening, speaking, and acting from the heart to set a foundation for care. Garfield tackles these topics with clinical experience as well as with the firsthand account of managing the end of life for his mother and father. In one reflection, he courageously shares his response when his mother brought up assisted suicide--although he understood her pain, he couldn't actively allow her to die. Garfield shows how to resolve conflict and be supportive even when caregivers and the dying disagree about care. Deeply exploring tough topics such as pain management and relationship reconciliation, this resource will give readers a place to go for comfort, direction, and answers. (Oct.)
Editor's note: Reviews noted as "BookLife" are for self-published books received via BookLife, PW T program for indie authors.
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"Life's Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying." Publishers Weekly,
11 Sept. 2017, p. 62. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc /A505634964/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS&xid=dc801569. Accessed 20 Apr. 2018.
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Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-
Discovery and Community Building
in Small Groups
Antoinette Brinkman
Library Journal.
123.2 (Feb. 1, 1998): p103. From Book Review Index Plus.
COPYRIGHT 1998 Library Journals, LLC. A wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Garfield, Charles & others. Hyperion, dist. by Little, Brown. Feb. 1998. c.256p. ISBN 0-7868-6276-9. $21.95. PSYCH
The idea that a group is more than a sum of individuals is a social science axiom, and this book offers a New Age exploration of that premise. Rooted in gathering traditions, wisdom circles are discussion groups oriented to healing, sharing, celebrating, and other purposes. With his collaborators, Garfield (psychiatry, Univ. of California, San Francisco) outlines the "ten constants" that form the essence of wisdom circles. They provide guidance on how to start and sustain such groups, along with rich case study material on those involving AIDS patients, men, and corporate clients. Some readers might be put off by the book's jargon, e.g., talking stick, and no empirical evidence is presented to show that circles accomplish their lofty aims. However, the material is well organized and applies to diverse circumstances and groups. Inspirational yet practical, this book is highly recommended for public libraries and collections serving social service and other group leaders.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Brinkman, Antoinette. "Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in
Small Groups." Library Journal, 1 Feb. 1998, p. 103. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A20302570/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS&xid=bd173cc6. Accessed 20 Apr. 2018.
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Quoted in Sidelights: “Well conceived and unusually well written, it minimizes the outline form without being dull. It’s interesting throughout.”
“doesn’t overrate the psychological factors–nor does it underrate them.”
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Peak performers - the new heroes of
American business
Henry Holtzman
Modern Office Technology.
31 (June 1986): p126+. From Book Review Index Plus.
COPYRIGHT 1986 Penton Media, Inc., Penton Business Media, Inc. and their subsidiaries http://www.penton.com/
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"Peak Performers--The New Heroes of American Business'
"Peak Performers--The New Herones of American Business,' by Charles Garfield; William Morrow & Company; New York, New York; 333 pages; $16.95.
FOR YEARS we've been hearing--and generally accepting--myths about "team players' and "rugged individualists.' We visualize team players as dull mediocrities occupying even duller jobs. Rugged individualists are envisioned as folks who do great at solo work, but can't get along with people.
While the author admits that there are enough of both types to give some credence to the myth, there's a new breed, or more precisely lot more of an old breed, that he calls "peak performers.' These are people who can make things happen in situations that have defeated others.
Peak performers combine the best attributes of team player and individualist. They never let a job get dull, because they bring life to it. And even though they may perform individual tasks extremely well and with aplomb, they value the synergy available through the interchange of ideas in a group approach.
Who is a peak performer? It's Charles Garfield's belief that they come in all shapes, sizes, ages, sexes and races. Some become peak performers early in life, while others convert much later. And they can work at any job. They are goal-oriented, bottom line-oriented men and women. As the author points out . . .
"An organization's bottom line can take many forms . . . profit, staying within budget, producing to a deadline, winning new customers. An individual peak performer's bottom line, however, takes just one form: Make things happen toward goals, consistent with a mission, while developing oneself in the process . . . To get there, the peak performer cultivates a mental environment in which he or she retains a clear image of the desired outcome; assumes the necessary risks and judges when and how to take initiative.' He goes on to crystallize this thinking in the statement, "They are motivated by achievement in their work and full development of their human faculties.'
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Unlike many other books that seem nothing more than updated spinoffs of Dr. Norman Vicnet Peale's classic "The Power of Positive Thinking,' this book doesn't overrate the psychological factors--nor does it underrate them. It begins with the premise that to become a peak performer (or to motivate the performance of others), you've got to establish a mission for yourself, an overall goal, than hold to it.
This book is additional evidence that a new type of "how-to' or self-improvement author is entering the scene. Well conceived and unusually well written, it minimizes the outline form withour being dull. It's interesting throughout and well worth the price.
Speaking of price, this book may put to rest another myth: that the price of work achievement is a screwed up family life. The author's having none of that . . . and neither should you.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Holtzman, Henry. "Peak performers - the new heroes of American business." Modern Office
Technology, June 1986, p. 126+. Book Review Index Plus, http://link.galegroup.com /apps/doc/A4263114/GPS?u=schlager&sid=GPS&xid=b4c63105. Accessed 20 Apr. 2018.
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Quoted in Sidelights: “This book really got us focused,”
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Peak Performers
Kelly, Patrick (American fashion designer)
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12.9 (Sept. 1990): p66. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 1990 Mansueto Ventures LLC on behalf of Inc. http://www.inc.com/
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This book really got us focused. Before I read Peak Performers, we had a mission statement that was a page and a half long. Garfield's book pointed out that most peak performers set goals that can be captured in a single statement. After I read that, I distilled our mission into one sentence: to be the first national physicians-supply company.
Everyone now knew what we were shooting for-94 stores in five years. That goal would mean opportunity and career advancement for them. And that was motivating. We grew from 12 to 24 company stores the next year, and our sales jumped 54%.
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Kelly, Patrick (American fashion designer). "Peak Performers." Inc., Sept. 1990, p. 66. Book
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Second to None: How Our Smartest Companies Put People First
Charles A. Garfield, Author McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing $27.5 (454p) ISBN 978-1-55623-360-9
Cooperative rather than adversarial manager-employee relations are the mark of today's innovative and successful companies, reports Garfield ( Peak Performance ) in this somewhat long-winded but unfailingly cheerful account. At America West Airlines, Semco and Preston Trucking, among other companies, he observes that managers have become coaches, factory hands are planners and designers and clerks double as public relations experts--all with decision-making authority. With compensation based on results and profits ``only one goal among many,'' self-managed employee teams develop or revise products and services, usually having sought input from suppliers, retailers and consumers. In an ongoing conversion ``from machines to living systems,'' such new-breed firms, says Garfield, embrace ethnic and gender diversity, support high ethical and environmental standards and espouse community concerns. 40,000 first printing; major ad/promo; author tour. (Nov.)
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Quoted in Sidelights: “Listening from the heart” is one of the most important of these commitments, Garfield remarked in an article on the Web log of his publisher, Central Recovery Press. “Then speaking from the heart, acting from the heart, and caring for people with empathy—imaginatively getting inside the skin of people who are dying so you understand what’s going on,” he went on. “You learn that small things can mean a lot. Small things like showing up, paying attention, caring deeply.”
Author Charles Garfield Introduces Life’s Last Gift
Posted on January 25, 2018 by Account
Charles Garfield
Giving and receiving peace when a loved one is dying
For the past forty-three years, Charles Garfield, PhD has spent time at the bedsides of dying people, as well as caring for those who love them.
Garfield shares that throughout those years, it amazed him how few user-friendly resources were available to help people during what is probably life’s most difficult period (a loved one’s dying time.)
Over 650,000 people in the US die each year, many of them at home, and over 90 percent of Americans believe it is the family’s responsibility to care for their dying loved ones—and yet, there are so few trustworthy resources.
“That’s why I wrote Life’s Last Gift,” said Garfield. “The book is a tribute to the hundreds of people I’ve worked with at Shanti project, an organization I founded about four decades ago that cares for people with AIDS, cancer, and other life-challenging conditions; to people I’ve worked with at the Cancer Research Institute at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco; but especially to my father, mother, and closest friend—each of whom I cared for during their dying time.”
Who is the book for?
Life’s Last Gift is for anyone providing care to someone at the end of life, but especially for family members and friends. It is also for health professionals and volunteers who wish to have a trustworthy resource they can offer to loved ones of terminally ill patients.
What makes this book unique?
“I worked to provide people with an informative, well-written book that actually delivers on its promise to provide peace on the journey at the end of life,” said Garfield.
The book is based on nine commitments.
“First, listening from the heart,” said Garfield. “Then speaking from the heart, acting from the heart, and caring for people with empathy—imaginatively getting inside the skin of people who are dying so you understand what’s going on. You learn that small things can mean a lot. Small things like showing up, paying attention, caring deeply.”
One commitment that Garfield is particularly fond of is listening to people’s stories. “Their stories are their legacy,” he said.
People who are dying often do a life review, and they remember the most important things. They remember people who they loved and who loved them, and work they were proud of.
“Lastly, the notion that love heals—it doesn’t always cure—but love can heal us emotionally, interpersonally, and spiritually, even if it doesn’t heal us physically,” said Garfield.
These commitments are based on the realization that the experience of being cared for can be more important to the dying person than anything you do or say. The experience of being cared for can matter most.
“In the words of the great writer James Baldwin, ‘The moment that we cease to hold each other, the moment that we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out,’” said Garfield. “My hope is that Life’s Last Gift can help you prevent the light from going out during the dying time of someone you love.”
After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield created an essential guide, Life’s Last Gift for friends and families who want to offer comfort and ease their loved ones’ final days.
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BY DEBORAH BIGELOW ON OCTOBER 12, 2017
Garfield, Charles. Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying. Central Recovery. Sept. 2017. 194p. bibliog. ISBN 9781942094494. $25; pap. ISBN 9781942094500. $15.95; ebk. ISBN 9781942094517. DEATH/GRIEF/BEREAVEMENT
Garfield, PhD and founder of the Shanti Project, a widely acclaimed AIDS and cancer service organization, delivers a compassionate guide to help friends and families ease a loved one’s final days. Readers learn how to apply a series of commitments to the dying (e.g., promising to remember that person’s wisdom), which, according to the author, sustains emotional closeness and nourishes the relationship. Exercises on death personalization and empathy and outlined starting points for small but significant actions are included, with Garfield adding, “be sure to say goodbye.” VERDICT A comprehensive end-of-life guide with extensive resources to benefit both the living and the dying.