AMAZON.COM NAMES UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND PROFESSOR'S BOOK ONE OF TOP 10 BUSINESS BOOKS FOR 2000

Jan. 15, 2000

Joanne B. Ciulla's "The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work," has been named one of the top 10 business books of 2000 by Amazon.com.

Amazon.com section editor Alan J. White said Ciulla, professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond, gives readers "a wide-ranging look at the allure and changing significance of work."

White listed the book No. 2 on his list of the top 10 business and investing books. Gary Hamel's "Leading the Revolution" was No. 1.

White says Ciulla's book draws from history, mythology, literature, pop culture and practical experience.

"Ciulla probes the many meanings of work," White says, "or its meaninglessness," and she asks:

"Why are so many of us letting work take over our lives and trying to live in what little time is left?
What has happened to the old, unspoken contract between worker and employer?
Why are young people not being disloyal when they regularly consider job-changing?
Why are there mass layoffs and 'downsizing' in a time of unequaled corporate prosperity?"

Other books on White's list include "The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else" by Hernando de Soto; "The Social Life of Information" by John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid; and "The Millionaire Mind" by Thomas J. Stanley.

Ciulla is the holder of the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at Richmond and the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy in Amman, Jordan. She is editor of the book "Ethics, the Heart of Leadership" (1998) and author of more than 80 other publications.