Leadership And Spirit: Breathing New Vitality And Energy Into Individuals And Organizations

Learn how you can harness your inner spirit to help yourself and those around you approach work with a renewed sense of purpose and satisfaction. In this book, Moxley shows how spirit can spawn a more vital and vibrant kind of leadership-one that, in turn, promotes the creativity, vitality, and well-being of others. Here, Moxley examines various leadership practices: those that elevate people's spirits and those that cause the spirit to wither and wane. He offers specific suggestions on what each of us can do to reach a new level of awareness regarding leadership. And he demonstrates how a spirited leadership that values rituals, celebrations, and employee input creates a totally engaged workforce; one that brings the whole person-mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual-to work.

RUSS S. MOXLEY is a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past thirty years, he has been an executive coach, a trainer/facilitator in a variety of management and leadership development programs, an OD practitioner, a writer and editor, and a senior-level manager in two different organizations. He received his masters degree in theology from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Preface: A Story about this Book.

The Authors.

TWO THREADS: LEADERSHIP AND SPIRIT.

Weaving Together Leadership and Spirit.

Understanding and Experiencing Spirit.

Leadership That Constrains Spirit.

An Inspiriting Alternative: Partnership.

WAYS OF BEING, WAYS OF DOING.

Who Are We to Be?

Developing Our Inner Life.

What Are We to Do?

Fostering Community.

Epilogue: Rewriting the End of Our Story.

References.

Index.