Pt. I. Core elements -- 1. Contemporary challenges to sustainable industrial civilization / Homare Takenaka -- 2. The book of five concepts for management : based on Miyamoto Musashi's The book of five rings - the spirit of being well - skilled in wielding both the sword and the pen / Shuhei Aida -- 3. A view of bushido / Masato Shinagawa -- 4. Chivalry : from the knights of the Round Table to the Nolan Committee / Jeremy Ramsden -- 5. Christianity / Lorne Denny -- 6. Complexity and identity : the evolution of collective self / Peter M. Allen -- Pt. II. Synthesis -- 7. New thinking : a synthesis / Jeremy Ramsden -- 8. Bushido in the IT era : enduring features of the spiritual character of Japan / Kaneyuki Hamada and Yutaka Ujiie -- Pt. III. A spiritual method based on bushido -- 9. The road to the spiritual mind for entrepreneurs / Masayuki Koyanagi -- 10. 'Shin-shin-toitsu-ho' for dynamic meditation / Toshiro Ono -- Pt. IV. Practical applications -- 11. EcoDesign and human media / Shuhei Aida -- 12. Eco-design and sustainability / W. J. Batty -- 13. Corporate social responsibility and business decision making / Simon Knox -- 14. The need for spirituality in the public sphere / Nada K. Kakabadse, Paul Collins and Andrew Kakabadse -- 15. Creating sustained performance improvement / Peter A. Hunter -- Epilogue : spiritual motivation for leadership / Shuhei Aida, Jeremy Ramsden and Andrew Kakabadse.