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Capturing the Heart of Leadership Spirituality and Community in the New American Workplace
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Gilbert W. Fairholm
Book Code: B7096
ISBN: 0-275-97096-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97096-3
248 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 8/30/2000
List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Fairholm's insights and awareness of the issues of spirituality in the workplace are the most thorough of any publication available on the topic.
    —Choice
  • Gilbert W. Fairholm's is not a book to be read by people frightened of change....Nor is it a manual or a how-to treatment. Rather it is a challenge to think about "spirit," based on observation and potential reality. It provides the reader with real food for thought and contemplation.
    —IJCM
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
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