War Myths is a call not to arms but to awareness, which can liberate business from the destructive myths that presently dominate it. The free market myth, the corporate ladder myth and the entitlement myth have resulted in outsourcing, layoffs, loss of health benefits, frozen wages, cutthroat competition, buyouts, closures, even child sweatshops. This book provides the tools to begin a transformation to an aware, adult workplace.
About the Author: Hal Bolton is a retired business executive and consultant with extensive experience in catalyzing organizational and cultural transformation. As manufacturing supervisor and CEO of Dahlstrom Manufacturing Company, a multinational corporation, for fifteen years, Hal supervised cultural transitions in small and large factories. Later, as a consultant in organizational transformation and process improvement, he guided transformative processes in companies and multinationals, communities, educational institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. He also spent fourteen years as management cochairman of the Jamestown Area Labor Management Committee, creator of the prototype for community labor-management organizations in the United States and abroad. While stationed in Germany in the early post-World War II years, Hal was profoundly affected by devastation left in the wake of war. Subsequently, he traveled to many parts of the world advocating nonviolent solutions to conflicts. In Great Britain, he appeared on Scottish television and lectured to several audiences about a study on cultural change resulting from British Steel's closing of local steel mills. In Israel, he participated in Communities in Conflict, a study conducted in cooperation with Ben Gurion University in Beersheba. Here in the United States, he appeared on CBS television coverage of worker participation practices initiated in his manufacturing company in 1982. Throughout his travels and traditional business career, he has taken every opportunity to study metaphysics and healing arts with nontraditional teachers. Hal holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University and a Master of Science degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology. In the area of civic activities, he has served on boards of nonprofit foundations, schools, professional organizations, and labor management committees. Currently he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he continues to blend practical with metaphysical considerations.