Conscious Leadership
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This document discusses conscious leadership and culture. It defines the purpose of business as relating to the public good and outlines tenets of conscious capitalism like stakeholder integration and higher purpose. It describes qualities of conscious leaders like being purpose-driven, authentic, emotionally intelligent, and service-oriented. Conscious leaders create a shared purpose, make a positive difference, help people grow and evolve, create win-win strategies, make tough ethical choices, and become the love they want to see. Becoming a conscious leader requires intentionality, following your heart, learning and growing through mentors and challenges, and engaging in self-awareness practices.
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Conscious Leadership
- 1. John Mackey September 2016 Conscious Leadership & Culture
- 3. ? What is the Purpose of a Business? All professions have a higher purpose that relates to the public good. Why shouldn’t business? Who gets to define the purpose of a business?
- 5. The Good The True The Beautiful The Heroic Service to others; improving health, education, communication & quality of life Discovery and furthering human knowledge The courage to do what is right to change and improve the world Excellence and the creation of beauty
- 6. Google Organize the world’s information and make it easily accessible
- 7. Improve the health of people, the food system, and planet
- 9. Purpose-driven Authentic Loving & caring Emotionally intelligent Spiritually evolved High integrity Service oriented Qualities and Virtues of Conscious Leaders
- 10. The Ideal Leader
- 12. Spiritual Intelligence Discerning and communicating higher purpose Highly developed ethics Love, care and compassion in abundance Creating and expressing the Good, True and Beautiful
- 13. “Good leaders must first become good servants.” -Robert Greenleaf Servant Leadership
- 16. Make a Positive Difference Conscious leaders are NOT in their role to maintain the status quo. They: Work to make the world better in a significant way Inspire Mobilize
- 17. “The best organizations are ones in which leaders walk the talk and reveal the meaning in each person's task. People are invigorated by their work and feel a sense of balance and completeness, a sense of effectiveness and competency, a sense of autonomy, initiative, belonging and creativity.” -Leadership scholar Manfred Kets de Vries Create Workplaces with Meaning and High Energy
- 18. Help People Grow and Evolve Develop leadership potential Discern the unique talents and gifts of each individual Unleash creativity
- 19. Create Win-Win Strategies, Not Trade-offs Conscious leaders: Are driven by purpose Lead by inspiring and guiding Think Win-Win-Win
- 20. Decisions guided by the company’s purpose and core values create the most long-term value for all stakeholders. Make Tough Ethical Choices
- 21. Be the Love You Want to See in the World Bring love out of the corporate closet. If we want love in our enterprises, we must embody that love in ourselves. Seek to eliminate fear. Promote on the basis of love capacity. Express love and care even when facing difficult decisions. Use appreciations, which are transformative in helping to create a workplace of love and care.
- 22. Becoming a Conscious Leader Requires High Intentionality and Purpose
- 23. “We have reached such explosive levels of freedom that we are now in charge of our own mutation.” -Peter Kastenbaum
- 24. “Know Thyself”
- 26. Life Is about Learning and Growing Take chances, and be willing to make mistakes. Grow through your relationships. Practice forgiveness. Everyone is trying to help you to wake up.
- 27. Evolve to Higher Consciousness in Stages Conscious leaders are dynamic and evolving. Growth proceeds through distinct stages or waves of development. Avoid being stuck in rigid ideological orthodoxy – strive to evolve your consciousness upwards.
- 28. Role Models • An important and time-tested way to grow • Practice their qualities and virtues. • Ask yourself, “What would they do?” Coaches & Mentors • Give you the foundation to make fewer mistakes and learn quickly from those you do make • Accelerate your growth Find Role Models, Coaches & Mentors
- 29. Stay with the process. Expand your consciousness wider, open your heart and mind further, and make yourself even more vulnerable. Engage in spiritual practices. A Crisis Is a Wonderful Growth Opportunity
- 30. Meditation Yoga Prayer Tai Chi Affirmations Breathing exercises Chanting Visualization Set Time Aside for Self-Awareness
- 31. Just as we shouldn’t fill our bodies with junk food, we shouldn’t fill our minds with junk ideas that have little real substance. The world’s collective knowledge and wisdom is at our fingertips – available to access anytime, anyplace and virtually for free! Study Timeless Wisdom
- 32. Personal Growth Is a Choice That is the Hero’s Journey! Our greatest challenge is to manage and lead ourselves. It is also our greatest opportunity for service, and the rewards are virtually limitless. First, we must become more conscious. Then, we must share our wisdom with our organizations and society.
- 33. Adapted from Lynne Twist Those of us alive today have the opportunity to lead the most meaningful lives ever lived. Our challenges are great, but so is our entrepreneurial creativity. We have all the tools we need; we just need to unleash human innovation and creativity on our challenges. There are no problems we are incapable of solving.
- 34. You have the power to be a conscious leader.
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- Uncompensated effort going up – volunteer work is nourishing people in a ways that paid work simply is not. Implication: Need to shift the focus from Profit Maximization to Purpose Maximization
- The Highest Ideals Humans Aspire to… Strategies, processes and structures reinforce the higher purpose and Conscious Leadership
- You cannot have a conscious business without a conscious leader.
- Our culture looks for high EQ in leadership promotions. Developing a high EQ is more important than having a high IQ.
- SERVANT LEADERSHIP Leaders who serve have learned the secret of the “helper’s high.” Generosity is a win-win-win virtue that creates value for the giver, recipient & larger community. Servant leaders embrace transpersonal values which lift them to higher levels of consciousness. “I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” -Albert Schweitzer
- Uncompensated effort going up – volunteer work is nourishing people in a ways that paid work simply is not. Implication: Need to shift the focus from Profit Maximization to Purpose Maximization
- Conscious leaders want to make the world better in some significant way. They willingly shoulder the responsibility. They mobilize others to strive towards the same ends. They inspire people to commit to change voluntarily and to work together towards a shared goal. They are NOT in their role to maintain the status quo.
- Redefine success as having a positive, lasting impact on the world. Focus on creating high performance, high energy work cultures that resonate with your Team Members and their personal passions.
- CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP To become a conscious leader, we must first WANT to become a conscious leader. Conscious leaders are driven by the firm’s purpose rather than self-enrichment, and lead by mentoring, coaching, developing and inspiring people rather than through command-and-control or a carrot-and-stick approach. The conscious leader doesn’t think zero-sum or win-lose, but rather win-win-win-win-win-win (W6). Different types of questions are posed and therefore different types of solutions are discovered and created. Look for tradeoffs, and we’ll find them. But look for win-win solutions, and we’ll find those instead. The human mind is infinitely creative. Conscious leaders create new mental pathways to unleash human creativity.
- Some ethical issues are easy because they involve a choice between something clearly right and something clearly wrong. The real test of leadership comes when the choice is between right and right. Conscious leaders are guided by the company’s purpose and values to make decisions that result in creating the most long-term value for all stakeholders.
- The more self-aware we become, the more we learn about ourselves and discover we have so much more to learn and become aware of. Our emotions are the windows into our soul. Emotions such as envy, resentment, greed, bitterness, malice, anger and hatred contract and diminish our lives. Emotions such as love, compassion and forgiveness are expansive and life-enhancing. We need to consciously cultivate them – they enrich our lives.
- Develop your self-awareness skills so you know when you are truly following your heart and when you’ve lost your way. Learn how to deal with fear. It doesn’t exist in the present moment. It is primarily a creation of our minds. What are your passions, your deepest yearnings? What do you most want to do in life?
- A life of learning, growing and evolving is the richest type of life. Take chances, and be willing to make mistakes – learn from them and move on. Grow through your relationships with the people with whom you are most intimately connected. Practice the idea that every person you meet is fully “enlightened.” An interesting thing happens – they start living up to that vision. In a quest to be more self-aware, keep a journal of your feelings, emotions, thoughts, dreams, ideals, aspirations.
- Conscious leaders are dynamic and evolving, not static. Growth in consciousness generally proceeds through distinct stages or waves of development. Jean Piaget; Abraham Maslow; Clare Graves, Don Beck & Christopher Cowen; Lawrence Kolberg & Carol Gilligan; Jane Loevinger Avoid being stuck in any rigid ideological orthodoxy – strive to evolve your consciousness upwards. This benefits not only you but contributes greatly to the evolution of consciousness in other people and in our company as well.
- FIND ROLE MODELS An important and time-tested way to grow is to find role models – people we most admire and want to be like. Make a conscious decision and effort to begin practicing their qualities and virtues. Ask yourself, “What would they do?” You can make those choices too. Who are your role models? Friends Parents Siblings Teachers People from history People of your religious faith Living people you’ve never met A GOOD COACH OR MENTOR CAN BE INVALUABLE They can give you the foundation to make fewer mistakes and learn quickly from the ones you do make. They can help you accelerate your growth in new directions. My father was my mentor from the time I co-founded Whole Foods Market at age 25 until I was about 40.
- When problems press all around you, it sometimes feels like the strategies that have worked so well in the past are not working any longer. This is because we are being called to grow to a higher place. Stay with the process. Expand your consciousness wider, don’t get defensive, open your heart and mind further, and make yourself even more vulnerable. Engage in spiritual practices…meditation, prayer, “Holotropic Breathwork”…to get back in touch with your deepest feelings and highest aspirations. DON’T WASTE ANY CRISIS AS A LEADER
- Contemplative practices such as meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, breathing exercises, chanting, affirmations, visualization, and prayer are invaluable. Practice regularly. Setting time aside to be by yourself is critical for self-awareness. It helps center yourself, helps you become more aware of your feelings and emotions, and slows down the mind.
- Just as we shouldn’t fill our bodies with junk food, we shouldn’t fill our minds with junk ideas that have little real substance. The world’s collective knowledge and wisdom is at our fingertips – available to access anytime, anyplace and virtually for free! Since the collective human experience and knowledge is available to us, it is well worth our while to “hang out” with the wisest, most enlightened beings that humankind has produced. They will stoke our aspirations to evolve higher, and we can learn many valuable things from them that we can use to enrich our lives.
- Our greatest challenge as leaders is to manage and lead ourselves: to make wise choices, to learn and grow and evolve as human beings. It is also our greatest opportunity for service, and the rewards to our company, our families, and to ourselves are virtually limitless. First, we must become more conscious, and then we must share our wisdom with the world. That is the Hero’s Journey.
- Leadership matters today more than ever before. When leaders are primarily driven by service to others and the firm’s higher purpose, and when they lead through mentoring and motivating, developing and inspiring others, you see “peace and happiness in the individual, respect and solidarity in the community, and mission accomplishment in the organization.” Leadership in the third millennium must be based on the power of love, caring, and compassion. We must bring love out of the closet. Conscious leadership is fully human leadership. It integrates the masculine and feminine, the heart and the mind, the spirit and the soul, and Western technology and efficiency with Eastern wisdom & effectiveness. You have the power to be a Conscious Leader!