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The Spiritually Intelligent Leader

Leadership is a quality belonging to all people. Leadership describes an energetic force a person has to forge ahead, to lean into the future, co-constructing reality as we meet it. There is a `tipping point’ which connects a person in his immediate and emerging reality. This quality allows a person to live between two worlds; the physical world and the metaphysical (imaginal) world. There is no doubt that we are capable of moving between these two worlds (Corbin, 1972, Heron, 1992).

SPIRITUALITY AS COPERNICAN REVOLUTION

What is spirituality? There are myriad ways in which this question has been answered, through the ages, in different languages, throughout the world. Modern secular scholarship, as epitomised by studies such as Mitroff and Denton’s Spiritual Audit of Corporate America, encapsulate the concept as ‘meaning-making.’ I want however to follow the mystical tradition of metaphor to describe what I think spirituality is, which takes this rather further.

Corporate Character

Here are some vignettes of corporate character shared at a FfWS day held in London on Saturday 1 November 2008

The Buddha on the Bottom Line?

Profit, shareholder value, going global? Yes - and- quite unexpectantly - spirituality. Top leaders are showing an increasing interest in spirituality in the workplace as they realise that the needs of new generations of corporate contributors have moved exponentally beyond even Maslow's hierarchy. What do leaders do about this? What is spirituality in the workplce? What are the benefits? And who is a spireitual leader? We attempt to offer answers from business research and our daily work with leaders, take a look at the contributions from transpersonal psychology and, finally, offer some reflections on spiritual leaders.

Organisational Spirituality - Annotated Bibliography

Article critiquing books on organisationl spirituality looking at such topics as motivation through the design of work; in search of excellence; the Nice Company; new traditions in business; thought self-leadership; contented cows give better milk and many other topics.

SPIRITUAL PRESENCE - Josie Gregory

This workshop is a participatory inquiry into the nature of presence in the imaginal world, which I describe as spiritual presence.

Organisational Spirituality - Away with the Fairies

Eve Poole suggests how the concept of organisational spirituality may help organisations to achieve some breakthrough in the intractable problems associated with employee motivation, engagement and well-being.

Pathways to Spirituality at Work: practicing presence, building trust, creating community. By Robin Alfred

Robin Alfred - Findhorn Foundation Consultancy Service - explores how to bring spirituality into consultancy practice.

Some Thoughts on Spiritual Development

The article explores and describes levels of personal and spiritual development. The facilitation of spiritual development requires knowledge of the stages and states the person.

Various Authors

Leadership in Business - What is the threat of Spirituality? Sir John Whitmore speaking on Thursday 15 July 2004

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