Spiritual Leadership in Business

A new global leadership paradigm is gradually emerging:  spiritual leadership.

A spiritual approach to leadership is presented by merging inner wisdom with business wisdom:  a leader's inner perspective on the purpose of life and leadership is the foundation for decisions and actions in the outer world of business.

Empirical research based on interviews with 31 top leaders from 15 countries in six continents demonstrates that "leaders can obtain happiness, respect, peace of mind and success, while at the same time serving the needs of all those affected by their leadership when they lead from a spiritual basis.

It also indicates that spirituality can serve as the foundation for leadership that considers ethics, social responsibility and concern for the environment not just as instruments to protect corporate reputation and income generation but as fundamental principles and values in their own right".

Source:

Peter Pruzan, Dr. Polit. & Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. E-mail:pruzan@cbs.dk

Creativity and Emptiness

The best creative mind is empty - anything can happen: there are no limits, everything is possible.

 

A mind full of ideas/concepts is limited by those same ideas/concepts - it is trapped in a box.

Think "outside-the-box":  the best way to think (create) is not to think.

 

Emptiness is full of potential. Emptiness is freedom.

 

Absolute freedom to create.

Can we transform ourselves in entrepreneurs / innovators?

I believe we can. Inner transformation is possible.

 

For that you need to develop two qualities:

Ø  Empty mind, to unleash clarity, vision (freedom to choose);

Ø  Open heart, to unleash strenght, decision (the power to decide).

Mainly, you have to let go of:

1) thoughts - everything you believe in (truths, concepts, structures, systems) and

2) emotions  (anger, attachment, ignorance).

Thoughts produce a full mind (it causes blindness - mental blindness).
Emotions produce a closed heart (it causes weakness).

Blindness because we are ignorant (a full mind is a limited mind): we look but we don’t see.

Weakness, because we are ruled by desire, we are slaves of anger and attachment.
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Lean Thinking is sustained by Inner Thinking

Lean entrepreneurship is essentially another form of management (management of start-ups).

Lean intrapreneurship is another form of innovation (lean innovation).

That is, the lean entrepreneur/innovator applies a different type of management style that recognizes:

·         the uncertainty of the process of taking a new idea into the market, and

·         the need to change and adapt and develop a stream of constant innovation within the start-up / existing company.

To be able to deal with uncertainty you need an “EMPTY MIND” – vision (freedom to choose).

To be able to change and adapt you need na “OPEN HEART” – strength (power to decide).

“Until you know everything in life,
all you can do to make life clear is to decide”.

Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist Master

 

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