Janet Edmunson -- Author, Speaker

The following titles are available which contain information from both Janet and Charles:

Finding Meaning With Charles: Caregiving With Love Through a Degenerative Disease

By Janet Edmunson
$15.95

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Janet's inspiring new title was drawn from experiences over the five years she spent caring for and learning from her husband's degenerative disease. The book is positive, uplifting and includes affirmations for caregivers, designed to support and strengthen all those who are caring for those touched by health issues.

READERS' COMMENTS

This uplifting book will encourage caregivers to make the most of their situation, help them understand the difficulties they'll face, and teach them what they can do to help their loved one achieve personal aspirations. Finding Meaning with Charles -- Caregiving With Love Through a Degenerative Disease, helps caregivers sustain themselves and remain strong for their family members during times when they can easily find themselves worn out. A "must read" for caregivers of degenerative neurological diseases.

-- Richard Gordon Zyne, D.Min.
Executive Director, Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

"I have walked in Janet's shoes as a caregiver. Caregiving is a true test of love and endurance. As a caregiver, you will be overwhelmed. This book will give you an incredible sense of peace and acceptance and the affirmations will bring you comfort. I wish the book were available when I struggled with my journey."

-- Patti Ryan, loving companion and caregiver for Leo Hamel during his neurological disease.

"This is a disarmingly honest remembrance of one couple's very special journey in dealing with an incredibly complicated disease process which ultimately resulted in death. Its strength is its ability to unlock the reader's vulnerabilities as the sharing of everyday details are interwoven with larger spiritual understandings regarding the nature of disease, loss, relationship. The author has used the complexity and richness of the experience to "make meaning" and to accomplish the difficult task in grief of holding the past and bringing it forward to the now."

-- Edith L. Murray, Hospice Administrator, Wayside Hospice, Wayland, MA

Wise Women Speak: Changes Along the Path

Compiled by Fern Carness, MPH, RN and Lisa Edwards, MBA, RD
$~~21.95~~ -- NOW $15.95 special online price!

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Twenty courageous, determined women open their hearts and tell their stories of inner wisdom and strength, tragedy and triumph of the unconquerable spirit in this, their book of the WISE WOMEN SPEAK series. Take this journey and learn from unforgettable life stories about navigating the changes along life's path as stumbling blocks become stepping stones.

Janet contributed a chapter, "Precious Lessons," to this fine anthology of healing wisdom.

Paradoxes of Leadership: Reflections from twenty years of managing a highly participative company

By Charles R. Edmunson

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This 82-page book was Charles Edmunson's final gift to workers and leaders everywhere. Started when he was well into the debilitating illness that would take his life, Paradoxes of Leadership is a distillation of the wisdom, insight, and passion Charles brought to management and leadership. In it, Charles discusses 14 paradoxes that define his philosophy of leadership. For instance, the first paradox is that "we have more influence when we listen than when we tell." By listening, we gain respect from those with whom we interact, allowing us to be listened to when we most need it. We also have the chance to learn to make us better informed leaders in the future.

The book is a true labor of love. Unable to write, and, increasingly, finding it difficult even to talk, Charles dedicated himself to dictating his thoughts to Loren Rodgers, a close colleague in the employee ownership community, who made weekly trips to Framingham, MA to listen to Charles. These extensive notes were then written up by Corey Rosen of the National Center for Employee Ownership, which also laid out the book and had it printed, to form the final product.

Paradoxes of Leadership has earned well-deserved and widespread praise. Whether being used as a text at Boston College, as a guide for leadership, or an inspiration for anyone interested in Charles' life, it is an uplifting book. The final paradox of the book is that "a full life is achieved not by grasping but by giving." This act of giving by Charles can help make all of our lives fuller.

WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT PARADOXES OF LEADERSHIP

"If Paradoxes of Leadership helps even one reader to understand, accept and improve leadership effectiveness, it will be a leadership lesson of the highest order, given from the perspective of a full life, and from the heart of Charles' Final Paradox: A Full Life is Achieved Not By Grasping, But By Giving. Charles has given us a gift for the new millennium, and beyond...."

-- Stephen C. Sheppard
CEO, Foldcraft

"Last week I had the opportunity to read a draft of Charles' Paradoxes of Leadership. As each of the fourteen paradoxes have been lived out in his life, we too have been drawn to experiment and learn to live out these paradoxes as well. They need to be deeply rooted in all of our relationships."

-- Bob Fulton
Chairman and Founder of Web Industries

"Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Charles Edmunson over the years understand upon reading his book, Paradoxes of Leadership, that is not another theoretical treatise on leadership. Rather, his fourteen paradoxes are at their best an autobiographical reflection on the requisite leadership skills that Charles has experienced and learned while developing as an effective and successful leader."

-- Richard Duffy
President of Ownership Visions

"Being an effective nurturer, leader, and developer of others requires great skill. Charles is a person driven to excel, and he has worked diligently to learn for himself and then teach others. Even as Charles fights valiantly to rise above his disease that is slowly claiming his life, he is Charles, unselfishly and graciously teaching us about how to live and be effective for one another."

-- Donnie Romine
President of Web Industries

"Reading this book reminds me that his power to teach is unstoppable. Even this unjust disease does not prevent him from being the great leader that he is."

-- June Sekera, Business Consultant

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