Gilbert W. Fairholm

Capturing the Heart of Leadership (eBook, PDF)

Spirituality and Community in the New American Workplace

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to promote a new spiritual approach to organizational leadership that goes beyond visionary management to a new focus on the spiritual for both leader and led. Reflecting on the current crisis of meaning in America, this book takes up the search for significance in peoples' worklives-in the products they produce and in the services they offer. Recognizing that the new corporation has become the dominant community for many- commanding most of our waking hours by providing a focus for life, a measure of personal success, and a network of personal relationships-Fairholm calls on business leaders to focus their attention on the processes of community among their stakeholders: wholeness, integrity, stewardship, and morality. Spiritual leadership is seen here as a dynamic, interactive process. Successful leadership in the new American workplace, therefore, is dependent on a recognition that leadership is a relationship, not a skill or a personal attribute. Leaders are leaders only as far as they develop relationships with their followers, relationships that help all concerned to achieve their spiritual, as well as economic and social, fulfillment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313008269
• Artikelnr.: 68535384

Autorenporträt

Gilbert W. Fairholm is emeritus professor of leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Soul of Leadership The Place of Spirit in Our Work Lives
Defining Spiritual Leadership Problems with the Current Leadership
Situation Pressures that Focus Our Spirit Self at Work A Shift to a
Spiritual Focus for Leadership Understanding Spirit at Work Spiritual
Leadership at Work The Search for a New Leadership The Spiritual Leadership
Process Spiritual Leadership Task Competence Spiritual Leadership Visioning
The Spiritual Leadership Dynamics of Servanthood Emerging Spiritual
Leadership Technologies Building Community and Individual Wholeness
Spiritual Leadership: Setting a Higher Moral Standard Stewardship The
Leader's Goal: Continuous Improvement Epilogue Bibliography Index