Spiritual leadership : the quest for integrity / Leonard Doohan. [print]

Includes bibliographical references.

The dangerous possibility of taking leadership seriously -- Has the recent emphasis on leadership got us anywhere? -- Failed organizations -- Frustrated hope in leaders -- Different expectations of leadership -- What's missing? -- This book's approach to leadership -- The spiritual leader -- The calling -- Contemporary challenge -- Themes in the new leadership -- Transcendent values -- Ten core values of a spiritual leader -- Spiritual leadership -- The vision and values of a spiritual leader -- Components of spiritual leadership -- Some significant consequences of spiritual leadership -- Fallacies regarding leadership -- The environment created by spiritual leaders -- Short-term goals for spiritual leaders -- Influencing others to be visionaries -- Move people upward and outward -- Encourage followers to welcome change and crisis -- Identify a shared vision -- Train others to be visionaries -- Coach your followers carefully -- Leadership and integrity -- The need of integrity -- The nature of integrity -- Results of leadership with integrity -- Building a trusting environment -- Leadership and reflection -- Leadership and prerequisites for reflection -- Four steps to develop reflection -- Qualities that facilitate reflection and leadership -- Practices supportive of both reflection and leadership -- Spiritual leaders and their organizations -- Promoting organizational well-being -- Empowering individuals and teams -- Signs of an organization directed by a spiritual leader -- Stages of growth in an organization led by a spiritual leader -- Structural components of an organization led by a spiritual leader -- Spirituality of leadership -- Christian spirituality--its focus and components -- Christian spirituality and spiritual leadership -- Ongoing development of spiritual leadership -- Spiritual leadership and the future -- Conclusion: The spiritual experience of leading others--an invitation -- An invitation to lead -- Effective leadership -- A model of spiritual leadership.

Leadership today―whether in religion, healthcare, politics, business, or any other sphere of endeavor, needs a change of heart―requires a discovery of one's inner self and values, a renewal, a conversion. It requires new qualities such as faith, vocation, vision, integrity, community-building, contemplation, and spirituality. Spiritual Leadership was written for those individuals who want to integrate their leadership role with the values of their lives. Spiritual leadership is a form of ongoing daily conversion that unites what we do and how we do it with who we are and the values that motivate us in life. Spiritual leadership is a form of faith-motivated commitment, a sense of call to live in a new way with new priorities and to make all judgments in light of these values. It is the result of a deliberate personal choice that is motivated by love. In that context, this book: • Responds to the current need for an integrative approach to leadership • Shows the attitudes to leadership result from the inner values of mind and heart • Presents the new qualities of leadership as faith, vision, integrity, community-building, contemplation, and spirituality • Provides a model of spiritual leadership • Outlines the stages in the development of an organization led by a spiritual leader • Sees leadership as a faith-motivated commitment • Reacts to today’s climate of abuse of power and of arrogance Author Leonard Doohan explains that the essence of spiritual leadership lies in focusing on others rather than on oneself and moving away from self-centeredness to other-centeredness, and even to self-transcendence. This book challenges individuals make a personal journey in search of their own authenticity and destiny in this world and to discover a breakthrough to a new vision of one’s role in the world. AMAZON

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Dr. Leonard Doohan is Professor Emeritus at Gonzaga University, where he was a professor of religious studies for 27 years and Dean of the Graduate School for 13 years. He has written 17 books and 160 articles and has given over 350 workshops throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East. Leonard’s recent books include Spiritual Leadership: The Quest for Integrity, published by Paulist Press in 2007; enjoying Retirement: Living Life to the Fullest, published by Paulist Press in 2010; and a current manuscript, Courageous Hope: The Call of Leadership, will be published by Paulist Press in 2011. Leonard’s wife is Helen, who was also a Professor Emerita at Gonzaga, specializing in the writings of Paul. They have a daughter, Eve-Anne, who is a professor at USF in communication studies. Helen and Leonard are both now retired and divide their time between their home in Spokane and a medieval village called Torri in Umbria, Italy, where they love to enjoy “the slow life.” Leonard finds that retirement has given him time to read, reflect, and study.