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The Art of Spiritual Leadership in Business How to lead with spiritual purpose, values and creativity
A 4-hour, 4-CD audio-based learning programme written by Debra and William Miller and recorded by William Miller. Produced and sold by Sounds True, Inc.
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PROGRAMME SUMMARY
To assist leaders in bringing forth their natural capacity for spiritual-based leadership, this programme engages them in developing four faculties – four capabilities. For each capability, here is a sample of self-inquiry questions that help leaders explore and develop their own unique expression as a spiritual-based leader:
1. Establish your spiritual view of life, and your spiritual theme
2. Explore your spirituality from the inside out. Identify how you best
grow your spiritual awareness.
3. Embody spiritual principles in your leadership. See what it looks like
waking up as a spiritual leader each day.
4. Engage in revolutionary activities. Stretch your ideas of what’s
possible in who you are, what you contribute, and how you can lead from your
spiritual theme.
These
four faculties are not just for individuals. In fact, when a group of leaders
identify their common spiritual view of life, support each other in growing
spiritually, embody spiritual principles day-to-day, and engage in activities to
transform their organisation, they cannot help but stimulate fundamental
change… naturally. This change will occur in three arenas:
When
an executive team embodies a common spiritual view, it naturally exercises the
spiritual values such as truthfulness, responsibility, peace, love, and
non-violence. Those values shape the day-to-day culture for learning and
innovation. Then, the wealth-creation activities of an organisation –
including strategy and product development – will be based on this culture of
spiritual values. The team’s spiritual character will also drive their
decisions as they interact with and affect the societies and the environment in
which they operate.
Today, we are all called to lead the way to a new story about leadership and spiritual values in business. As stated by Michael Ray, professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business [1]: "The real heroes of today are people dealing with the challenges of a world in chaotic transition. They know the difficulty and suffering that is part of this world. But they also have full faith in their inner creativity and spirit with its infinite intuition, will, joy, strength, and compassion. They know that the joy and promise of life is taking these inner qualities and bringing them forth in a constant quest for the highest for themselves and everyone around them."
The Art of Spiritual Leadership in Business is a response to this challenge, this call, for business leaders to take the lead in guiding their organisations from a spiritual basis.
[1]
From The New Entrepreneurs, edited by Renesch & DeFoore. 1994.
New Leaders Press, San Francisco.
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The
basic messages of this audio-based learning programme – including practical
methods for developing the four key faculties of spiritual-based leaders – are
summarized