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You can thrive in this fast-paced, rapidly changing, complex 21st century by:
- 1. articulating a purpose worth the rest of your life
- 2. making wise career and relationship choices
- 3. making every day matter by mindful attention to your actions and results
Heroic Living imparts these vital skills through a strategy that challenges us to transform work and home, and beliefs and actions, into an integrated whole. We need to make tough choices, get bottom-line results, and adapt to an ever-changing world. But we also need to find peace and fulfillment by grasping the greatness that we are called to, and Heroic Living visits Caracas slums, corporate boardrooms, high school classrooms, and elsewhere to profile some of the countless ordinary people who have bettered themselves and the world by finding a purpose worth living for and values worth standing for.
The book's ultimate challenge? By transforming ourselves into who we should be, we can lead our civilization toward what it should be: not a small-spirited, self-absorbed humanity but a great-spirited civilization that loves life, other people, and the world.
About the Author
Chris Lowney, formerly a Jesuit, was named a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co. while still in his thirties and held senior positions in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London until leaving the firm in 2001. He served successively on Morgan's Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Investment Banking Management Committees, accumulating extensive multinational experience at a company regularly ranked one of "America's Most Admired Companies" by Fortune magazine.
Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Lowney was a Jesuit seminarian for seven years. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University, where he also received his M.A. and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is holder of honorary Doctoral degrees from St Louis University, Marymount Manhattan University, and from the University of Great Falls.
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Heroic Leadership has been translated and published into 10 languages:
Polish: Wydawnictwo Wam
Korean: Humanist Publishing
Spanish (World): Editorial Norma Russian: Premiere Publishers Indonesian: Gramedia Pustaka Chinese (Simplified): China Water Power Press
Chinese (Complex): Apocalypse Portuguese (Portugal): Verbo Croatian: Mate
Italian: Il Sole 24 Ore
English (India): St.Paul's
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The time for the civilization of self is over. Let’s start building the civilization of love.
You wake up one morning and realize that the life you’ve imagined has eluded you. You sense that there is something better— something bigger—waiting out there for you, but you can’t quite put your finger on what it is. You know that fame and fortune aren’t the answers to true satisfaction in life . . . but, then, what is? The answer lies in discovering and following your “mighty purpose” for life—a reason for living that is so much bigger than yourself that it transforms you, your relationships, and the world as a result. In Heroic Living, best-selling author and former investment banker Chris Lowney combines his business expertise with proven practices of Ignatian spirituality to help each of us—regardless of calling, career, or current situation—discover our own mighty purpose and develop a personal life strategy that helps us achieve it. By merging astute business knowledge and spiritual wisdom, Lowney provides the tools and strategies needed to make practical, long-term life changes that move us away from our fractured, compartmentalized lives and toward the satisfaction and wholeness that each of us desires so deeply.