The Manager's Pocket Guide to Spiritual LeadershipThis guide teaches all managers how to find the inspirational elements in their own work and the work their employees do. An innovative managerial prescription for combating the cynicism that reigns in today's organizations at all levels. |
Contents
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Emotional indicators of a healthy | 20 |
Spiritual indicators of a healthy | 27 |
That unsettled feeling | 53 |
Transformation Step | 67 |
Transformation Step | 73 |
Epilogue | 83 |
Appendix | 9 |
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1.0 Concern 360-degree feedback 4D Process areas assess AT&T AT&T Long Lines Barry benefits Bob Larson cholesterol co-workers commitment Computervision connectedness continuous creativity core corporate create culture customers decision Design Diagnosis phase Dilbert disease Dorothea dysfunctional employee Quality Enhancement environment exercise feedback flextime Gap Score Direction Gap score interpretation Gap Strength Importance goals health care costs health management health-related costs healthy community healthy lifestyle behaviors High performance impact implementation Importance Gap Score improve individual and organizational initiative Intellectual Capital involved Item Strength Importance Jim Manzi Lotus Milan Kundera Norms found ongoing opportunities organization that values Outcome indicators percent performance dimensions phase forward problems Process indicators profitability psychiatric rehabilitation results look Russ soul leader soul leadership Stephen Covey strategic plan strategy Strength Importance Gap Strength Importance Score Stuart Team Leader Transformation Step Unchangeable Risk Factors
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Page 3 - Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, 'doing business'. Naturally, they don't eschew such simpler pleasures as love-making, sea-bathing, going to pictures. But, very sensibly, they reserve these pastimes .for Saturday afternoons and Sundays, and employ the rest of the week in making money, as much as possible. In the evening, on leaving office, they foregather at an hour that never...
Page 3 - In our little town (is this, one wonders, an effect of the climate?) all three are done on much the same lines, with the same feverish yet casual air. The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Our citizens word hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, "doing business.
Page 3 - Naturally they don't eschew such simpler pleasures as love-making, seabathing, going to the pictures. But, very sensibly, they reserve these pastimes for Saturday afternoons and Sundays and employ the rest of the week in making money, as much as possible. In the evening, on leaving the office, they forgather, at an hour that never varies, in the cafes, stroll the same boulevard, or take the air on their balconies. The passions of the young are violent and shortlived; the vices of older men seldom...
Page 3 - Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die. In our little town (is this, one wonders, an effect of the climate?) all three are done on much the same lines, with the same feverish yet casual air.
Page 4 - ... or hanging on the telephone, is discussing shipments, bills of lading, discounts! It will then be obvious what discomfort attends death, even modern death, when it waylays you under such conditions in a dry place. These somewhat haphazard observations may give a fair idea of what our town is like. However, we must not exaggerate. Really, all that was to be conveyed was the banality of the town's appearance and of life in it. But you can get through the days there without trouble, once you have...
Page 4 - For this is the truth: 1 have moved from the house of the scholars and I even banged the door behind me. My soul sat hungry at their table too long; I am not, like them, trained to pursue knowledge, as if it were nutcracking. I love freedom and the air over the fresh earth; rather would...