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Explore the benefits of workplace spirituality in making work
more meaningful and rewarding.

Even as the subject of spirituality in the workplace is gaining momentum, surveys show the number of workers satisfied with their jobs is decreasing. Based on many years of professional, practical experience, the contributors to this powerful anthology help you correct this drop in morale by showing you how to restore meaning and purpose to the workplace.

Offering new perspectives for a spiritual approach to work, each of the contributors to this innovative resource is a business leader, teacher, speaker, or writer on the topic of workplace spirituality. They represent the United States, Canada, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. Together, they present a comprehensive understanding of what it means to be a “spiritual workplace” and what it takes to create one.

In today’s rapidly changing, challenging work environment, this is a resource no business leader, business management student, policymaker, or rising leader should be without.

Contributors

Richard Barrett Margaret Benefiel, PhD Jerry Biberman, PhD Kathy Lund Dean, PhD Satinder Dhiman, EdD Frederick T. Evers, PhD Linda Ferguson, PhD Charles J. Fornaciari, PhD Kerry Hamilton, CPCC, ACC Ellen Hayakawa Tanis Helliwell, MEd Craig E. Johnson, PhD Dr. Richard King Marjo Lips-Wiersma, PhD Joan Marques, EdD James F. McMichael, PhD Jacqueline Miller Julia Mossbridge, PhD Judi Neal, PhD Robert Rabbin Birute Regine, EdD Rev. Lucy Reid Rabbi Dennis S. Ross Lance Secretan, PhD

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Philosophie et théologie

Spirituality

Religion

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	27 juin 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781594734625
Langue	English

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We dedicate this book to current and future business leaders.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Work at the Personal Level
Love and Truth: The Golden Rules of Leadership
Lance Secretan, PhD
Letting the Heart Fall Open: Spirit, Vulnerability, and Relational Intelligence in the Workplace
Birute Regine, EdD
Working Spiritually: Aligning Gifts, Purpose, and Passion
Linda Ferguson, PhD
YOU Are the Message! The Power of Authentic Speaking
Robert Rabbin
Brain Shaping at Work: Wiring Our Brains for Integrity, Leadership, Creativity, and [Insert Your Favorite Trait or Skill Here]
Julia Mossbridge, PhD
Infinite Leadership: Authenticity and Spirit at Work
Margaret Benefiel, PhD, and Kerry Hamilton, CPCC, ACC
Inspired Leadership: Leading with Spirit
Ellen Hayakawa
Spirituality and Ethical Leadership: Moral Persons and Moral Managers
Craig E. Johnson, PhD
I-Thou at the Workplace: An Interpersonal Spirituality from the Teachings of Martin Buber
Rabbi Dennis S. Ross, MSW
PART II Work at the Organizational Level
The S-Word Revisited: New Horizons in Workplace Spirituality
Joan Marques, EdD, Satinder Dhiman, EdD, and Dr. Richard King
What Makes an Organization Spiritual? Applied Spirituality in Organizational Structure, Design, Processes, and Practices
Jerry Biberman, PhD
Addressing Wellness Problems in the Workplace through Spirituality: Six Risks and Six Spiritual Solutions
Frederick T. Evers, PhD, and Rev. Lucy Reid
Overcoming Fear and Building Trust: Creating Healthy Organizations
Tanis Helliwell, MEd
Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a High-Performance, Values-Driven Organization
Richard Barrett
Beyond the Bottom Line: Spiritual Principles for Successful Performance
James F. McMichael, PhD
Identifying and Managing the Shadow of Workplace Spirituality: Practical Guidelines
Marjo Lips-Wiersma, PhD, Kathy Lund Dean, PhD, and Charles J. Fornaciari, PhD
Heart at Work: Signs of Hope
Jacqueline Miller
Creating Edgewalker Organizations: The Workplace of the Future
Judi Neal, PhD
Notes
Index

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Acknowledgments
W ith gratitude to our families, friends, students, audiences, support groups, and all the sources we learned and unlearned from, on our way toward attaining the insights in producing this book.
With great appreciation to all the contributors, who generously donated their knowledge and insights to this book.
With enormous praise to management and staff of SkyLight Paths Publishing for their consistent and invaluable support, and with infinite respect to Marcia Broucek, for all her guidance and unremitting energy in making this project worthwhile!
Introduction
I t becomes more apparent every day that events from even the farthest corner of the world affect us swiftly and deeply. The entire world-and, therefore, the world of business as well-is experiencing a continuously unfolding stage of interconnectedness, nationally, regionally, and globally. This trend brings a large number of advantages-and disadvantages-at the personal, organizational, and societal level, creating opportunities for some to rise to heights never experienced before and, at the same time, thwarting long-established sources for others.
This is a time of shifting paradigms and puzzling paradoxes. On one hand, there are some disturbing trends to be dealt with, such as fundamentalism, terrorism, and inveterate corporate greed. These factors create a toxic antithesis to the changes some well-meaning leaders are trying to bring about. They thwart every effort toward celebrating diversity, acceptance, and mutual respect, and generate anger and hate among those that are taken advantage of.
On the other hand, there is an enhanced understanding of the need for change. Families, workforces, and entire societies are expressing their readiness to embrace change at an unprecedented rate. They are eager to partake in the caravan of human improvement, and they surprise friend and foe with their choices and level of holistic awareness. They increasingly unite forces in the realization that there are ways to grow jointly: not one group at the expense of another, but all groups growing together in a mutually supportive way.
Transformations are inevitable, and we always have choices about how to conduct them. While not always obvious, there are many ways to excel without harming others, to do well and to do good at the same time. As business leaders scan the world for resources, knowledge, creativity, and markets to meet today s challenges, they are coming to some important insights. They realize that, aside from the oftentimes fascinating and complicating differences among work populations, some universal values guide people of all cultures, countries, and continents: love, respect, honesty, and truth, to name a few.
We offer this book as a response to the growing challenges facing leaders in the twenty-first century. Its message of workplace spirituality transcends time and environment. We have assembled a team of like-minded individuals from various parts of the world, each with broad international experience in human interaction. Their message entails a united call for ongoing efforts in helping to make the workplace a more meaningful one. Each contributor is thoroughly aware of the importance of the human contribution. Each has written extensively about it, presented it on numerous forums, has lectured broadly about it, has earned international recognition and respect for it, and believes in it. While their styles are broadly divergent, their interests and convictions, and hence their message, are unified. This collaborative team of twenty-four highly respected authors, consultants, speakers, and pioneers in the area of workplace spirituality offers their perspectives in the spirit of sharing and continued growth for all.
This book is for current and future leaders of the workplace. It is a book for leaders who are centered and not self-centered, leaders who are willing to put service before self, and leaders who are keen to reinvent themselves through self-knowledge and self-reflection. The chapters are arranged in a sequence that first reviews personal, and then organizational, factors, but does not require any particular order of reading.
It is our goal to help leaders cope with challenges they might encounter; to suggest new alternatives for a spiritual approach to work; and to remind leaders of the simplest but most important component of work: meaning and advancement for the human community as a whole. We hope this book will provide strength in times of weakness, determination in times of doubt, inspiration in times of uncertainty, and continued support on a path from good to great.

Lance Secretan, PhD, is acknowledged as one of the most insightful and provocative leadership teachers of our time. He is a best-selling author who is revolutionizing the way men and women integrate inspiration and leadership. His teaching and writing on conscious leadership is radical and ingenious, and has been hailed as among the most original, authentic, and effective contributions to leadership thinking currently available. Individuals and entire organizations have experienced remarkable transformations through his unique wisdom and approach. Thirty of Fortune s Most Admired Companies and eleven of Fortune s Best Companies to Work for in America are his clients. Leadership Excellence has ranked him among the top 100 Most Influential Thinkers on Leadership in the World. For more information, see www.secretan.com .

Love and Truth
The Golden Rules of Leadership
L ANCE S ECRETAN , P H D
We are living in a society that has embraced fear as a weapon to coerce others to do their bidding. In marketing, leadership, coaching, politics, education, health care, parenting, and religion, fear is the base operating system. But while people can be motivated by fear, they are not inspired by it. This chapter presents a critical view on society s distorted perceptions of love and truth in business, and the wrongful act of repressing these behaviors out of fear for being seen as weak, or for the sake of short-term profits. The author argues that it takes courage, strength, and commitment to build and sustain relationships that are based on love and truth and, therefore, inspiration.
G OLDEN R ULES OF L EADERSHIP
Nearly thirty years ago, I wrote my first book. At 496 pages, Managerial Moxie 1 weighed 1.4 pounds and was filled with complex diagrams, charts, matrices, models, formulae, theories, and other arcana chronicling the journey of my team in resurrecting a moribund business called Manpower Limited and turning it into a worldclass organization that achieved international renown. My writing formula conformed to academic norms that required deep research, empirical validation of theories, double-blind studies, and peerreferenced material, which, after review and endorsement by cloistered committees, became part of a teaching curriculum. This accomplishment may have been the high-water mark of my intellectual arrogance and my personal need to meet the external needs of a system. I had written an unnecessarily complicated book about a subject that is really not all that complicated.
Over the years, each book I have written on leadership has become smaller and simpler than the one before. As I have spent more time in the world, I have come to realize that living an inspiring life and making the world a better place is not a complex subject. It is actually very simple. I believe that Inspired Leadership boils down to following two golden rules: the world would be a better place if we loved each other and told the truth .
T HE C OURAGE TO L OVE
We are living in a society that has embraced fear as a weapon to coerce others to do their bidding. In marketing, leadership, coaching, politics, education, health