1Understanding transpersonal leadership

Greg Young and John Knights

DOI: 10.4324/9781003150626-2

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Overview

It is becoming more generally accepted that there is a need to develop a new kind of leader to meet the needs of our 21st century volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) world. The bookcases are full of volumes that describe “what” great leaders should do, but “how” to develop such leaders is usually limited to a macro or systemic solution rather than focusing on granular behavioural change of the individual. Our book ‘Leading Beyond the Ego – How to Become a Transpersonal Leader’ published in 2018 (Routledge 2018) describes the qualities ...

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