Capturing the Heart of Leadership

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'' worklivesin 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 relationshipsFairholm 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.