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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
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Embracing Destiny

In How We Die, bioethicist Sherwin Nuland reminds us how little we control the timing and the manner of our final exit.2 When it comes, the end is often messy and painful rather than peaceful and dignified. We know that we will die, but continually seek to push this sobering reality into the shadows of consciousness. The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker wrote, “Everything man does in his symbolic world is an attempt to deny and overcome his grotesque fate.”3

The question is whether we must see this fate as grotesque. To deny our destiny is to succumb to fear. To accept it, and to recognize that we contribute through our death as through our life, is liberating. It opens new possibilities for life and leadership.

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