75 Principles of Conscious Leadership: Inspired Skills for 21st Century Business
I have read a lot of books on business and leadership and found this one to be very inspiring. The author, Michael Schantz, takes leadership principles to a whole new level, as each principle is written from an enlightened perspective. If business leaders incorporate this viewpoint in their businesses, as I am sure some of the successful businesses have today, then the results should be amazing.
Not only does the book have the 75 principles for conscious leadership, but every principle begins with little gems of wisdom. Good examples of these include: principle 4 - Access and Trust Authentic Intuition, "Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it." (Anonymous), Principle 17 - Give Effective Feedback without Emotional Charge, "The challenge is to be a light, not a judge; to be a model, not a critic." (Stephen R. Covey). And another favorite of mine is Principle 27 - Lead by Doing, "In visionary companies, the drive for progress arises from a deep human urge – to explore, to create, to change, to improve. It’s a deep inner, compulsive – almost primal – drive." (James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porrus)
The principles include time-proven principles such as: embrace leadership as a learned discipline, embrace risk in decision-making, perform key objectives one by one and create an integrated vision and mission statement. Some of the newer, more spiritual principles to read about are: access and trust authentic intuition, practice empathy and compassion, balance technology with compassion, tithe and give back and integrate the feminine into leadership.
"75 Principles of Conscious Leadership: Inspired Skills for 21st Century Business" by Michael Schantz is definitely for students of new thought and for those who are not happy with the results of doing things in the same old way. I found it very gratifying to see enlightenment addressed in making businesses and executives successful. I highly recommend it to those who are interested in spirituality in all aspects of their life.
75 Principles of Conscious Leadership
Michael Schantz
Robert D. Reed Publishers (2008)
ISBN 9781934759066
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (9/08)
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