Joe HarlessFor more than 30 years Joe Harless headed the Harless Per-formance Guild, a network of organizations and consul-tants who use his concepts and procedures to help business, industry, and the military improve the performance of their employees. He is gnerally recognized as one of the founders of the relatively new field of Human Performance Technology. He is the author of the acclaimed Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development System (ABCD), that has been installed in the educational departments of numerous organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The ABCD System is widely regarded as state-of-the-art in instructional development. His most recent writing, the Peak Performance System, is a massive work that provides detailed guidelines for analysis, design, and development of a wide range of interventions to improve people-performance. Harless received the Gilbert Distinguished Profes-sional Achievement award from the International Soci-ety for Performance Improvement in 1996, and was elected to the Human Resources Development Hall of Fame in 1988. Recently retired from active management of his com-pany, Harless now devotes his time to reflection and research. The Eden Conspiracy is the first of a series of commentaries on societal problems and needs. Read More Read Less