THIS IS THE ONLY WRITER TO MELD BELIEF, HISTORY,
ETHICS AND MANAGEMENT KNOWHOW,
FOR PERSONAL AND TEAM SUCCESS AND CIVILISATION.
IT TOOK ONLY EIGHT DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND STUDY,
OF BREAKOUT INNOVATION, MEDIOCRITY AND DISASTERS.
READ IT, AND DO BETTER
Ross invites you on an unusual book-marketing exercise. He writes on behalf of the millions of good practical people who work to maintain our civilisation. But they do not read books and essays like his.
In turn, Ross has read thousands of books more scholarly than his over wide fields, which are valuable, but form a vast difficult jungle of ideas, and don’t measure up in reality. Will the brilliant commentators who read books and essays, acknowledge a condensed, more straight-talking but ennobling package? It works wonders for people, business, governance and society.
A Civilisation Package of practical ideas, enterprise and soul.
The will-to-good, to truth, to beauty and to joy.
The will to hard work, management and what must be done.
THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM UNIVERSITY COURSES OR ANY PODCASTS
ROSS has worked around.
He is a farm boy, an a’theist of belief and commitment, brought up by beautiful Christians. He got a PhD from Harvard, held executive positions in an exceptional range of business and government, in many lands, among many peoples.
Especially, he has gone back and forth all his life between remote farmers, peasants and indigenous people, and the glossy business towers and fifteen universities. He has learnt from the grace and ethics of poor people.
He has read the great writers, and found them wonderful but too academic, and nowadays, disconnected from reality, in their common rooms and podcasts.
So he writes from practical nous and knowhow, as you have not seen elsewhere.
His books and essays are one package, summarising what is, and what works.
We do our best, and look after people,
and we love this Earth.
All the rest is commentary.
IDEAS Wonder, boundless curiosity, imagination, openness, generosity, creativity, the arts and flair, esprit. And then rigour: What is, what works? And ethics. Repeat, ethics.
Most of the great ideas that make our world have been practical: That is from ancient times since making of fire and tools, and especially since the great breakouts of discovery, maths, science, governance and freedoms since 1500.
And now, the transformation of everyone’s lives with Internet and i-gadgetry.
Even the foundational idea of freedom and rights for ordinary people was an age-old practical idea from long before the great writers about freedoms.
ENTERPRISE Discovery, trade, technology, innovation, capitalism, engineering, management, productivity, government and regulation, charities and care. Reform. Temerity.
Ross melds these business and government essentials into a guide to civilised life. Was it ever more obvious that good management is key to all else? And now that everything is on a gigantic scale, it is beyond anyone, so we are destroying civilisation by breaking into contending interest groups.
SOUL Make a garden of this earth.
SERENITY REVERIE PEACE KINDNESS LAUGHTER BLESSINGS AND GRACE
Essays in Civilisation and Belief
Essays like none you have read: The life convictions of a practitioner who has considered the world’s great scholars and thinkers. What works, what is true, what lasts? He wrote much, but published nothing till his 70’s, as too young until then to know things.
ESSENTIAL Leadership & Management
The great Drucker and recent management books do not answer his fundamental question “How to make business and society both productive and humane?” Ross does. It is the core of all his writing, and combines values, attitude and processes.
A discoverer and technologist, innovator and reformer tells WHAT WORKS.
This is road tested decision-making, administration and enterprise, in business and government.
Ross has managed an incredible array of ideas and people in 14 countries. He has seen through business cycles and charlatans, and seen in the age of disruption. And loved it all. Humanity.
THE PANDEMIC WILL PASS, AND THESE WAYS WILL BE MORE ESSENTIAL
Science, Christianity and the Will-to-Good
A revised and briefer second edition.
This is reality, humanity and civilised life, all of which are under siege. It is highly critical of our philosophic and religious traditions, which largely avoid reality, and especially of modern disconnected philosophy. Science has now stolen most of its realm, and it deals more and more with bizarre fantasies. Reality is marvellous by comparison.
A powerful universal ethic has been here in front of our eyes from time immemorial, guiding good people despite religions and philosophers.
Those who damned Galileo refused to look through his telescope. Well, Ross puts Biblical faith under the microscope. Will you look? But his purpose in weeding is to plant reality and a higher and truer set of beliefs to drive our fulfillment now in harder times.
The Civilisation Package
All the books and essays of Ross Fardon are one in the Civilisation Package. The best we can believe and do on Earth.
This package is in PDF so that you can download it for free or in E-book format for unloading at the cost of $4.99. In either, you can then use your FIND function to access whatever Ross has published on any subject.
