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Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, Revised Third Edition
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Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, Revised Third Edition

by Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
August 2011
Beginner
304 pages
3h 43m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, Revised Third Edition

The Gift of Love

And what is it to work with love?

It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn

from your own heart,

even as if your beloved

were to wear that cloth.

It is to charge all things you fashion

with a breath of your own spirit,

Work is love made visible

And if you cannot work with love but only

with distaste, it is better that you should

leave your work and sit at the gate of the

temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

—Kahlil Gibran3

Asked about the secret of her leadership, Mother Teresa answered, “Small work with great love.”4 Love is the true hallmark of great leaders—love for their work and for those with whom they work. Pressures of task and the bottom line often crowd out personal needs that people ...

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