Creating Enlightened Organizations: Four Gateways to Spirit at Work

213 Pages·2013·3.084 MB·English

by  Judi Neal (auth.)

CCreating EEnlightened OOrganizations
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CCreating EEnlightened
Organizations
Four Gateways to Spirit at Work
Judi Neal
CREATINGENLIGHTENEDORGANIZATIONS
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This book is dedicated to all of the enlightened and
visionary leaders I have come to know over the years,
most especially Robert Ouimet, Mel Toomey, Daryl Conner,
Joan and Bruce Johnson, and John Tyson.
I also dedicate this book in memory of Jack Gibb
who opened up my thinking about what is possible in
highly conscious organizations.
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CContents
List of Figures and Tabless ix
Prefacee xi
AAcknowledgmentss xxi
Gateway I Creating Personal Transformation 1
1 What Do You Mean by That? 3
2 Why Spirit at Work Now? 13
3 Coming Down from the Mountain and into Mammon 23
4 Creating Sacred Space at Workk 35
5 Bridging the Visible and Invisible Worlds at Workk 47
Gateway II Developing Enlightened Leaders and Teams 57
6 Inner Leadership 59
7 Spiritual Leadership Models 71
8 Facilitating Spirited Teams 85
Gateway III Creating Organizational Transformation 101
9 Caring for the Whole System 103
10 Assessing Workplace Spiritualityy 121
Gateway IVV Joining the Global Consciousness Shiftt 137
11 Redesigning the Role of Business in a Changing World 139
12 Creating Our Desired Future 147
viii Contents
AAppppeennddiixx AA: Internationall Spirit at Workk Awarddss 161
AAppendix B : The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionn 177
Notess 191
Referencess 193
Indexx 203
Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 The relationship between faith, spirituality,
and religion 6
1.2 Religion versus spirituality brainstorming sheett 7
8.1 Team spirit spiral 8 6
9.1 Open Space Technology community bulletin board 117
10.1 Seven levels of corporate consciousness 122
10.2 Organizational orientation model 131
Table
12.1 Internal characteristics of enlightened organizations 154