Spiritual leadership

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).

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.

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

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