Spiritual Leadership: The Challenge

Abstract

For the past decade, I have been writing about values-based leadership. Perhaps unaware due to my philosophical background, I have sometimes ignored that which moves our values, that which stimulates our impulse to be moral. Having had this brought to my attention, I have published several articles identifying and explaining what is called our “spiritual” nature and including such within the parameters of values-based leadership. These writings expose the complexities of the human mind and the deep-seated values harnessed within, recognizing the moral consciousness as an internal moral capacity.These writings have been difficult due to my training in analytical philosophy and because many of us – and perhaps others around the world – associate “spiritual” with their religious commitments. Being raised in a Southern religious culture, I am guilty of this as well. Giving this some serious thought and the strong association of “spiritual” with being religious doesn’t mean that the religious,especially the monotheistically religious, have a monopoly on being spiritual. Spirituality has a much wider exposure.