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Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe."
Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair
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Exellent Read.......2007-03-23
This book takes a look at the time after Jesus Christ has been crucified through the eyes of the man who was to be in his place; Barabbas. Lagerkvist does an exellent job revealing the true person that Barabbas is underneath hard gruff shell this character puts up for everyone to see. The only hard part is following the spoken words of the characters considering there are no quotation marks used in this novel. Other than that it is a very interesting read for anyone to read.
Giving Up the Ghost.......2005-10-29
Barabbas tells the tale of the common thief who was acquitted in place of Jesus Christ. Its palm is always open to catch what the New Testament, concerned with larger matters, lets drop. If such tales strike you as literary opportunism, a grab after ready-made thematic power, you're not alone. But it's probably best to approach this material with an open heart and mind.
The common thief turns out to be, of course, not so common. The narrative combines a bare-but-exalted prose style with grubbily realistic impressions of the era as it details his encounters with the Christians, who are refreshingly presented here in their first incarnation as a minor cult suffering under society's bewilderment and persecution. There are some wonderfully sensory scenes in slave quarters and echoing Christian catacombs, as well as thrilling "eyewitness" accounts of legendary figures like Lazarus.
Barabbas literally has given up relation to his own father (I won't reveal more), and has no son--therefore, the "holy ghost" is all he has, or might have, as an intimate anchor in the male-dominated society of the time period.
People who recommend this book do so with emphasis, and now I think I understand. It allows for spiritual absorption without an embrace of unseemly religious dogma. It's a book for everyone--for the religious, for the closeted religious, for the agnostic, for the atheist, even for the closeted atheist. It studies spirituality not from a position of certainty but from the position of human need.
All of us need to believe in something, and to belong to something, whether or not we acknowledge these needs. Lagerkvist's tale examines the human need to believe in something, and the profound isolation can that result from refusing to join any clan.
From a theological standpoint this makes Barabbas curiously versatile: its frightening parable of unbelief will keep the believers believing, while its compassion for the unbeliever, the lone mind, will resonate with society's "outsider." And reading folks, even religious ones, habitually enter the mode of "the observer" and therefore, on some level, will identify with the isolated mind of this fictional outsider.
Non-believers, however, may not be won over by descriptions of the Christ as "pale-skinned" and characters as blue-eyed, et cetera, when this clearly flies in the face of all historical evidence, and is the result of centuries of great European art that has unwittingly (and sometimes wittingly) acted as cultural propaganda. Also, Lagerkvist's depiction of Christ as slim-bodied, weak and fragile of frame, while endearing, directly contradicts the gospels' testimonial of his supposed lifelong occupation as a carpenter. How could Lagerkvist's Christ have angrily driven thieves from the temple? These flaws would matter less if the novel didn't seem to pride itself, like Gibson's Passion, on its gritty historical verisimilitude.
Your ability to lose yourself in the novella will also depend on your tolerance for lofty-sounding biblical phrases--which I have always found beautiful in a reasonable context--and for what I would argue are less successful attempts at evoking mystical or mysterious states of mind through the forced overuse of ellipses: "Strange... he had never felt that before... strange..." You get the idea.
I recommend Barabbas as an absorbing, even fascinating, but not particularly satisfying reading experience. At every turn the narrative stubbornly refuses to provide answers, favoring bleak existential mysteries over meat-and-potatoes resolutions. But the spare "parable" format only made this reader long for a clearer conclusion and for a clearer "message." Perhaps it's unfair to say that it reads more like a skillful literary exercise than as a story that needed to be told. But it takes some restraint not to respond to its existential "what if?" with a big non-existential "so what?"
Tracing the footsteps of death.......2005-08-26
This short novel by Scandinavian Nobel Prize winner Par Lagerkvist fills in a little hole left open by the Bible; specifically, what happens to Barabbas after the crowd chooses to crucify Jesus and spare his life. The book begins with Barabbas being freed. He is in a state of bewilderment, and something within him leads him to follow Christ to the cross, where he witnesses the death. Afterwards, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and wanders through town. By coincidence, he encounters some of the 12 apostles at a small cafe without knowing who they are, though they know who he is. When he discovers their identities, he is somewhat drawn to them yet repulsed by their poorly-concealed anger. In quick succession, he witnesses the stoning of a female friend, works as a laborer on a wealthy estate, and travels to Rome. There he sees Rome burn down around him, discovers that this was done on orders of the emperor to be blamed on the Jews. He is captured along with some Jews (some of whom he recognizes from Golgotha) and killed.
The story is easy to read, yet delivers a very strong emotional impact. The different individuals Barabbas encounters are shown as very human, with faults and frailties that make the reader empathizes with them. The apostles that Barabbas meet are not Biblical heroes in any sense of the word, but grieving friends who wrench their hearts to try and not bear ill-will towards him. The various Roman soldiers and officials are shown as all too human; some cruel, some sympathetic towards the Jews and others apathetic.
The theme of death is pervasive throughout the book, as it starts with the death of Christ and ends with the death of Barabbas. Death seems to follow Barabbas at every step. He somehow feels this, but does not try to run; he has nowhere and noone to run to. Nearly all the people he meets end up dying; often at the hand of others. As such, the book not only portrays a man, but a society that places little value on life, less than that placed on money, law, order, revenge, honor, etc... Death is truly inescapable in the life of Barabbas, and he comes to realize near the end of the book that it is not how or when you die, but what you die for, something Christ tried to show him and everyone else at the beginning of the book.
In all, one of the best books by this Nobel Prize-winning author. This English translation is easy to understand; the story flows smoothly, the dialogue is simple, and human emotions are conveyed but with strength and subtlety. I highly recommend this book.
The final curtain .........2005-08-13
Par Lagerkvist always was a mystery for the usual ( western ) reader , even though he got a nobel and had a grand reputation as a Scandinavian author , but still , the west- in its major portion - did not know much about him .
this little opus of his proofs that he wasnt isolated from our ( modern-thinking ) crisis ,and that he - despite his philosophy - was aware of the terrible horror of our dilemma , and that he confronted the rough enigma of man's existence , along with the ( blindness ) fear that we are destined to face ... the universe's catch-22 ....our own !
in Barabbas -the great dubious- , with all its conflicts , struggles , and yearnings for faith , Lagerkvist portrayed man's puzzle , his fate , and the melodramatic contradictions that we all adopt..
barabbas is the final curtain for an intellectual stage went further than ( pure ) literature .. the last juncture of an art that epitomized - with its delightful solemnity - the romantic climate of our time .
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Hearing the Voice of the Market provides a detailed plan that enables managers throughout the organization to make more frequent and better use of market information. The book shows managers how to develop the two capabilities that distinguish the successful, market-oriented firm--competent curiosity, and competent knowledge use. The two are closely linked: inadequate information cannot be used well, and sound information is wasted if it is utilized poorly. Includes experiences and insights of the many managers and researchers cited in the text. Readers will learn how to create an environment in which managers are inquisitive about their markets, are able to satisfy their curiosity with real market information, and can make knowledge-based decisions that lead to success.
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A superb resource that goes far beyond marketing.......2001-10-09
For anyone interested in conducting research that will be used, this is an absolutely essential resource. A lot of claptrap has been written about knowledge use. In contrast, this is an extremely solid, scientific, helpful volume.
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How did a major corporation manage to turn itself around while Wall Street and others continued to predict its slow death? The answer may surprise you, and it provides a model for corporate transformation for any company or government agency operating in a world of accelerating change. The company is General Motors, and this book tells how it was able to change the way important decisions were made, leading to resurgence in business across its many product lines. At the beginning of the 1990s, GM was perceived by nearly everyone as falling behind its competitors at an alarming rate. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, though, the company had come storming back with successful new automobiles and new business concepts that captured new markets, while simultaneously holding on to many of its existing customers. What GM did is not just the story of a single automaker, but rather a compelling insight into an approach for any business organization that is faced with the need for a true transformation. As many companies have discovered, efforts at transformation too often fail. GM's successful transformation illustrates the importance of management's ability to change its mindset and make the tough decisions that revitalize business with bold new products and business concepts. At the heart of successful transformation is the imagination, courage and leadership required to visualize the kind of company an organization wants to become and then work toward that goal. With the destination set and understood by those who will need to implement the changes, decision-makers find it less difficult to overcome impediments to achieving their goal while finding creative ways of doing what may seem impossible. The lessons from GMs turnaround can help any business organization change and keep pace with today's turbulent marketplace.
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Sound, Practical Advice for Business Managers.......2004-12-01
As the founder and CEO of a successful market research-based consulting firm, I'm privy to the inner workings of a number of Fortune 500 companies. One of my perennial frustrations with books on business strategy is that the theories they present don't often correspond to the practical realities involved in running a large organization. The beauty of this book is that Vince Barabba's strategic guidance is informed by his first-hand experiences at General Motors. In drawing on his time at GM, Barabba makes compelling and insightful links between theory and practice.
As a business consultant, what I valued most was his 'systems thinking' approach to solving business problems--an approach that better ensures decision-makers identify and address core issues rather than merely tinker at the margins. This holistic approach to problem-solving goes beyond rote McKinsey-esque formulas and is what makes this book so broadly appealing. Using clear and forceful language (no annoying b-school patois here), Barabba gets right to the heart of things with a combination of robust theory and practical examples. Business decision-makers at every level would benefit from a close reading of this book.
"Surviving 'Personal' Transformation".......2004-10-28
The strength of Vince Barabba's "Surviving Transformation" comes in how one personalizes transformations so that she or he not only survives the transformation, but develops into a learning and adapting individual striving to achieve the "Idealized Design." The stories Vince uses throughout the book help the reader to understand the principles and practices that worked and did not work throughout the GM transformation.
Do not be tempted to pass this thoroughly well written and engaging book just because it is about the automobile industry. Regardless of the industry or the bureaucracy you are in, this book will provide you with deep insights into undertaking a transformation journey and not only surviving, but thriving on the other side. Once the journey begins it never ends.
Clear , Concise & Compelling.......2004-10-20
I would like to begin by taking exception to the first line in forward by C.K. Prahalad..."The focus of this book is "how to think": not just to survive a large-scale transformation, but to start, sustain, and thrive in a world of continuous change." The exception I wish to take is that Vince Barabba has taken a large organizations problem and translated it in a way that all organizations (large or small) can benefit equally. Organizations are all about having the right strategy,dealing with complexity and risk, making the right decisions, and making the right decisions right.
Vince Barabba has written a book that will find an audience from the executive decision maker, decision support groups, portfolio managers and the myriad of projects that make the right decisions actionable.
Open your mind to new ways of thinking and then right size it to your own organization.
Practical insights into complex problems.......2004-10-15
Most books that follow a specific case of corporate strategy tell a "just so" story where the true messiness of the decisions gets masked. I applaud Mr. Barabba for breaking that mold. He lets us see the context of uncertainty that surrounded decisions taken in GM's transformation. He gives us the added benefit of laying-out the theories behind the decision making approach. I found his concrete recommendations on dealing with organizational complexity and identifying key market development assumptions to be very useful. His discussion of deploying a "Sense & Respond" business model in spite of GM's financial stress gives great examples identifying the opportunity costs from alternative strategies. Lastly, his discussion of using the destination-focused, "Anticipate & Lead" business model is an eye-opener of everyone dealing with rapidly changing, turbulent markets. A great read.
Combining Theory and Practice.......2004-10-05
Most case studies on organization transformation simply tell what was planned and what happened, sprinkling in a little theory here and there, but generally as an afterthought. Vince Barabba's book on "Surviving Transformation" offers something different, a well-composed blend of theory and practice. The author enjoys two advantages. First, he was instrumental as a senior executive in designing and orchestrating the changes that occurred at GM. Second, he has a sound background in the "systems approach to change." Combining the two,the author has been able to offer the inside story of the redesign of one of the world's largest corporations while, at the same time, framing it in a conceptual context that helps us to understand exactly why it succeeded. Finally, Vince Barabba offers a model for change that is not unique to his company' situation, but can be used by a wide range of other organizations. I recommend the book highly to those who understand the need for on-going organization learning and adaptability.
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Vincent P. Barabba
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Despite much talk of being market oriented, few companies have harnessed the full range of their capabilities to serve the customer. In fact, the traditional organization of corporate activities into separate functions with marketing controlling primary access to the customer has widened the gulf of knowledge and understanding between the enterprise and its markets, and within the firm itself. This book provides a practical blueprint for creating dynamic, market-based decision-making mechanisms that lead to competitive advantage. Drawing on his thirty years of executive experience at Eastman Kodak, Xerox, General Motors, and in the public sector, Vincent P. Barabba demonstrates that when companies use systems thinking to view customers and the market as an extension of the firm, they achieve a meeting of the minds--creating value for customer, community, and enterprise. Barabba rejects the path of organizational restructuring and instead presents a unique framework for creating unity of knowledge and purpose across functions and for linking them with the markets they serve.
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Want to be market-oriented?.......2002-03-19
This book started with some basic management concepts and marketing concepts such as organizational structures to give you basic ideas on an organization. Then, in the latter chapters, the author introduced the concept of ideal market-based enterprise and brought in the ways to become a market-based enterprise. The Listen-Learn-Lead approach suggested by the author is practical and easy to understand. I love that approach personally since it would be useful for my future career.
As the author possess over 30 years executive experience, you can definitely share his experience in this book. As in this cyber year, the market trend always keep changing, thus being market-oriented is essential to maintain competitive. This book is worth to read if you want your organization to be market-oriented.
Best book on marketing as organisation-wide learning.......1997-03-04
From Chris Macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Join 100 marketing opinion leaders from 15 countries currently discussing this book's vital lessons for organisations with a marketing future. This is where we have got to as of March97...
Which are your favourite books or other texts which mesh marketing and learning organisation principles together in such a way that a marketing practitioner will add "learning organisation" constructs to his/her tool kit without worrying whether other people would classify them as marketing work?
Two votes for Vince Barabba's book "Meeting of the Minds" come from Tim Ambler ("excellent book and his approach has inspired some quite sophisticated market research in GM") and myself.
Below, an abstracted historical summary of how and why marketing stopped working in many Western companies of the 70s/80s. Finally, my concluding questions are tabled......Words are directly abstracted from Barabba except some linking paragraphs of mine in parentheses:
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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MARKETING CONCEPT
The late 50s and the 1960s, a period of economic expansion, were the golden age of marketing. It was a period in which (US) companies like General Electric, Pilsbury, and Procter & Gamble were guided by executives who actively integrated marketing into every phase of the business.
Peter Drucker writing at about the same time, likewise identified the central role of marketing and innovation. To him, marketing encompassed the whole business and meant more than selling products and services or creating a marketing department. "Marketing" he wrote "is so basic that ...it is not a specialised activity at all. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is from the customer's point of view."
The marketing concept held the highground in management thinking for almost two decades, and these were great years for American business. Personal incomes and markets expanded dramatically between the 1950s and 1970."
(Then marketing as organisation-wide learning and customer-oriented innovation process stopped in thw West... until the Japanese woke all would-be world class businesses up. The Japanese lapped up marketing as an inter-disciplinary concept with tools as TQM, Quality Function Deployment, Hoshin Planning, as recent revelations of knowledge-creation being an essentially Japanese corporate advantage (Nonaka et al, The Knowledge Creating Company), and target market costing as an organisation-wide process which the Japanese use (instead of accountants' measures) so that an informing consensus integrates all decisions for new product business development (Robin Cooper, When Lean Enterprises Collide))
(page 47)
One example of a Japanese management technique now widely adopted in North America is Total Quality Management (TQM), a customer-focused philosophy and strategy that seeks continuous improvement in business processes through the application of analytical tools and teamwork. Quality is considered from the customer's viewpoint , and quality demands constant sensitivity to customer demands and perceptions to market information. According to one author's description of TQM , "The voice of the customer is integrated into each process and system in the organisation...(and) meeting and exceeding customer demands is the ultimate objective".
Essentially, the many Japanese management techniques that found their way to North America and Europe in the 1980s shared two common understandings: first, that all business activities represent processes, and second, that these processes have only one purpose, to satisfy customers. The methodologies that underlie Japanese management techniques are at their core ways of fine-tuning and continually improving those processes to the point that they contain nothing that does not create value and satistaction for the customer.
(BUT if you have for a generation of management lost the marketing concept, your organisation may need to unlearn and then do a lot of new learning just to get back to scratch. As Chris Argyris has explained - in Organisational Learning 2 - enormous commitment is needed to reverse short-term culture and short-termist measurements and the political structure these condition -all this at a time when companies really do need to reflect on today's extraordinary strategy change drivers. Is this too much hard work for many old board directors to (have the will to) get down too?...)
page 37:
"In its traditional form, the functionally organised enterprise, in which command and control emanates from the top, is ill suited to the demands of the modern marketing place. It separates decision making (at the top) from doing (within the functions). It links decision-makers and customers by means of a single, narrow, and inadequate channel - the marketing function. Worse still, it provides few opportunities to move knowledge and knowhow between the functions. allowing what we call organisational knowledge.
We may find the best of both worlds if we redesign the decision-making process from the command-and-control tradition of the past so that it draws from and links the functional silos in which information and knowledge ultimately reside. This process will require trust between functions, the sharing of information and knowledge, and enterprise-wide knowledge creation.
CONCLUDING QUESTIONS
Three sets of questions and one speculation to conclude are:
Q1) Apart from Japan, are all countries-headquartered companies starting from an equal handicap in this race to learn marketing organisation-wide? I don't think so. In the US quality prizes like Baldrige woke companies up to process methods and information exchanges, books like Barabba's get written, and "learning organisation" is increasingly a serious topic on many CEO's minds. I don't think it is yet in eg the UK, a country where our lack of appreciation of the intangi
But maybe you'd like to vote on countries you know best?
Q2) More importantly, if an organisation has built up two decades of inertias as marketing dumb and over-deparmentalised, what approaches do people suggest to help a company iteratively and urgently experiment with becoming a new marketing learning organisation?
Q3) Would you agree that the great irony is that - with the new information era - we are entering the fastest wealth producing era mankind has known? But one in which countries, regions and companies will not all gain? The lion's share will go to those who direct value added learning with Unique Organisation Purpose aligned by the quality/trust of marketing relationships (whose feed-forward measurement is far removed from past performance transactions that accountants and old economists count on)?
I would speculate that for many big Western organisations, the only chance of catching up with world class value adding networks will be to establish a virtual university of interdisciplinary management practices with a marketing soul.
We know that the Japanese have some leading tools/approaches for this sort of curriculum, and to work any of them properly practitioners need to exchange experiences.
Brand Chartering is an action learning approach they might also try out; there must be many other experimental approaches worth trying too.
But perhaps most importantly, shouldn't we be constructing websites as experience-hubs in marketing learning organisation where practioners can :
-download training modules from the internet on to company intranets?
-exchange in e-mail groups with other practioners creative ideas on how to plant these interdisciplinary tools in their companies so that organisation-wide learning takes off?
Chris Macrae, editor of Brand Chartering Handbook & MELNET www.brad.ac.uk/branding/
E-mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
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Captivating, Intriguing and Meaningful!.......2000-11-11
This book is one you can read over time and again and it is well written so that the reader is hooked from the very beginning! It portrays the story of Jesus in a whole new light, from a new perspective - it would be a very good resource for those just coming to know Christ! It's an awesome way of letting people know the realities of what Jesus' death on the Cross means and how God can be a part of their lives. Plus, it's good book for those who have known God for years - I highly recommend this book for yourself or as a gift. . . or both!!!
Interesting take on Barabbas.......2000-05-18
I have to admit I'm not quite finished reading this, but wanted to let readers know that I've been enjoying it. I always wonder what was going on with people beyond what we read in the scriptures. Johnson has created an interesting story for Barabbas and why the people of Jerusalem would have chosen to release him and crucify Jesus. (I don't quite agree with her reasoning, but for the sake of the story I can accept it). Parts of the story seemed to be reaching, for example, his "romance" with Martha, but I veiwed this as a hook to get women readers involved and to balance the scenes of desert rebels plotting insurection. I was very impressed that she picked up the pun on Barabbas' name and found it interesting that she in many ways tries to set up parallels between him and Christ, both with his name, the fact that he lost his father fairly young, was a carpenter, was supposed to be a deliverer for his people, should have gone to the cross, etc. Many of these are dramatic license, but add to the interest of the story.
I'm eager to finish the book and see what she's done with the rest of the story.
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Barabbas was a common criminal. A man of violence, a drunkard, a thief, a murderer--a man torn by dark and tormented lusts. But Barabbas was the one the crowd pardoned. He was spared that Christ might die... Barabbas combines the utmost physical realism with an intensity of spiritual conflict not often equalled. This is no sketch in black and white but a richly colored portrait of a man driven beyond the powers of his endurance. Barabbas, Nobel-prize-winner Pär Lagerkvist's novel, has been made into a magnificent motion picture, starring Anthony Quinn as Barabbas. A Dino de Laurentiis production presented by Columbia Pictures.
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