Capturing the Heart of Leadership: Spirituality and Community in the New America

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

GILBERT W. FAIRHOLM is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and Adjunct Associate Professor of Leadership at the University of Richmond./e In addition to his academic appointments, he has over 20 years of management experience in state and local government. His previous award-winning books include Leadership and the Culture of Trust (1994), Organizational Power Politics (1993), and Values Leadership (1991), all published by Praeger.

Table of Contents

PrefaceThe Soul of LeadershipThe Place of Spirit in Our Work LivesDefining Spiritual LeadershipProblems with the Current Leadership SituationPressures that Focus Our Spirit Self at WorkA Shift to a Spiritual Focus for LeadershipUnderstanding Spirit at WorkSpiritual Leadership at WorkThe Search for a New LeadershipThe Spiritual Leadership ProcessSpiritual Leadership Task CompetenceSpiritual Leadership VisioningThe Spiritual Leadership Dynamics of ServanthoodEmerging Spiritual Leadership TechnologiesBuilding Community and Individual WholenessSpiritual Leadership: Setting a Higher Moral StandardStewardshipThe Leader's Goal: Continuous ImprovementEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Review

?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"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

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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.

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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.

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"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

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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.

Details ISBN0275970965 Author Gilbert W. Fairholm Short Title CAPTURING THE HEART OF LEADERS Language English ISBN-10 0275970965 ISBN-13 9780275970963 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2000 Subtitle Spirituality and Community in the New American Workplace Country of Publication United States DEWEY 658.4092 Place of Publication Westport Pages 248 Residence Richmond, VA, US Illustrations black & white illustrations Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc DOI 10.1604/9780275970963 UK Release Date 2000-08-30 NZ Release Date 2000-08-30 US Release Date 2000-08-30 Audience Age 7-17 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Publication Date 2000-08-30 Alternative 9780275957438 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2000-08-29 We've got this

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