
Soul at Work
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Dozens of books about spirituality and management have demonstrated the yearning for spirituality in the workplace that exists in people like Kerry Hamilton. No longer content to abide the widening chasm between their deeply-held values and the all-too-common business practices they encounter, these readers long for congruence between their values and their work. They wonder whether the days of the giants of corporate character like Johnson & Johnson, businesses who believed that integrity and profitability could co-exist, are gone for good. Are we living in a state of business and organizational entropy? Are we doomed to endless repetition of the Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing scandals? Must integrity and profitability now be opposed? What has happened to American business, healthcare, and non-profits in the last forty years?
Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations demonstrates vividly that another way is possible, based on the contemporary restoration of the partnership between integrity and profitability. It translates the core of what companies like Johnson and Johnson stood for forty years ago into contemporary forms. Through compelling stories of contemporary businesses, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, Soul at Work shows how integrity, profitability, and personal and organizational transformation are all of a piece.
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MARGARET BENEFIEL, Executive Director of the Shalem Institute, has served as Chair of the Academy of Management's Management, Spirituality, and Religion Group, as Co-chair of the Christian Spirituality Program Unit of the American Academy of Religion, and in various leadership roles in Spiritual Directors International. Over 3,000 executives, managers, and other leaders have participated in her seminars and courses. She directs Shalem's Soul of Leadership program and has written extensively on various aspects of contemplative leadership and spirituality at work, including Crisis Leadership, The Soul of Higher Education, The Soul of Supervision, The Soul of a Leader, and Soul at Work. She lives with her husband in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Soul at Work
- Part One From The Outside In
- 1. Soul at Work: Six Who Manifest It
- The U2 Community
- Sisters of the Road Café
- Reell Precision Manufacturing
- Greyston Foundation
- HealthEast
- Southwest Airlines
- Conclusion
- 2. Behind the Scenes: Leadership for Transformation
- Sisters of the Road Café: Genny Nelson
- Reell Precision Manufacturing: Bob Carlson
- Greyston Family Support Services: Theresa McCoy
- HealthEast: Joe Clubb
- Conclusion
- 3. Leading from the Inside Out: The Inner Life of the Leader
- Genny Nelson: Inner Nonviolence
- Bob Carlson: Deep-Flowing Stream
- Theresa McCoy: Compassion
- Joe Clubb: Prayer
- Conclusion
- 4. How Leaders Listen: Spiritual Discernment for Transformation
- Historical Development
- Discernment and Leadership
- Conclusion
- Part Two And Back Out
- Introduction
- 5. Broadening the Balance: Honoring What Really Matters
- Southwest Airlines
- Greyston Bakery
- Document Management Group
- Conclusion
- 6. Nurturing the Nurturers: Caring for the Whole Organization
- HealthEast
- Mercy Medical
- Our Lady's Hospice
- Conclusion
- 7. Keeping Grounded: Remembering the Cause behind the Causes
- Sisters of the Road Café
- Sophia Housing Association
- Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
- Conclusion
- 8. How Organizations Listen: Corporate Discernment
- Reell Precision Manufacturing
- Mercy Medical
- Greyston Foundation
- Conclusion
- Part Three Putting It All Together
- 9. Putting It All Together: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations
- Introduction
- Individual Spiritual Transformation
- Organizational Transformation
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Putting Soul to Work in Your Organization....
- Sustaining Spiritually Grounded Leadership
- Organization as a Whole
- Getting from Here to There
- At the Beginning
- Notes
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