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Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader
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Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader

by Joan V. Gallos
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 44m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter 11. Enhancing the Psycho-Spiritual Development of Leaders: Lessons from Leadership Journeys in Asia

Philip H. Mirvis Karen Ayas

We started this journey knowing that it was about business, but instead we learned about humanity.

I was able to get to know a great number of enlightened souls, but I also discovered myself.

These are two reflections from Asian leaders of a multinational foods business who spent three days in ashrams, spiritual centers, micro-enterprises, and charities in India learning about community life. The business leaders tended to the needy, offered what help they could, and marveled at how much could be accomplished with so few resources. In a desert campsite for three days afterward, they shared and digested their experiences, ...

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