Book to read: Action Inquiry - The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership by Torbert (Paperback - 1 May 2004) 

See article on summary of "7 Transformations of Leadership" By Rooke, D. and Torbert, R. (April 2005) Harvard Business Review

• Listen deeply to the messages in your mind/body telling you to move on, to grow psychologically and spiritually. Ask existential questions about your own purpose for being in this world and how you are of service to others.

• Create a peer learning group with others who have the same and more advanced leadership styles. Support and challenge each other to be continually flexible in thinking, feeling and behaving. Give honest constructive feedback. Change your communication style to appreciative inquiry. Change your hair style; change your dress code; change how you get out of bed; change how you communicate with others. Do things differently just for the fun of it. Break down habits of thinking, and action, no matter how useful / successful they seem. Break the mould.
• Become deeply reflective about your own assumptions, beliefs, and motivations. Do this with the intention of holding fewer and fewer personal assumptions, beliefs, values as precious and part of your identity. Go for a contemplative walk, contemplative swims, and meditate. Do bodywork such as dancing, tai chi, cycling. The idea is to strip yourself of social conditioning that fixes you; makes you rigid; keeps you in a psychic prison. Personal detachment for the greater good should be your motto.
• Practice having difficult debates, difficult conversations and having conflict. What you do not use, you loose. Waiting for a big showdown to elegantly manage conflict will not happen, (it will not be elegant!), as you have not built up the necessary `muscle’ (skill) for it.  
• Face your fears, imagined or real. “Know thyself”. Understand how the adrenergic system works so that you can work into it, rather than resist it.
• If you feel drawn to change society – do something, no matter how small it seems. If you feel drawn to change your job – do, if it helps to evolve your leadership.
• Cultivate the rebel /subversive, the temperate radical in yourself and others.
• Encourage critical reflection or treble-loop learning. Question the presuppositions on which the organisational goals are based. Create better, more flexible, more creative foundational goals and keep under review. 

Transformation means a change in (psychic) state. A state is an ontologically real psychic state or energy, with its own level of intellectual, emotional, behavioural and spiritual characteristics peculiar to that state. Once a state has been developed it does not disappear and the person does not usually accidentally revert to a lower developmental state. If forced to operate at a lower state due to work/ societal culture the person will go into distress and either get ill or have to leave.

Watch this space of further information on how spiritual strategies help us manage distressing circumstances.