Jesus ceo visionary leadership

Jesus CEO USING ANCIENT WISDOM FOR

VISIONARY

LEADERSHIP

Workshop 4th Feb 2004

Facilitated by

Stanley Arumugam & Rani Moodley

Welcome and Introductions

Small beginnings to a great adventure

Mid 1990’s in a bookstore

Synchronicity / Serendipity

California beckons

Pioneering : The Path ( Mission/Vision )

Jesus CEO : grows quietly and begins to sprout

Parallel Movements

Consulting by ‘accident ’ after treating stressed out

executives

Corporate observations :

- abuse

- neglect

- arrogance

- violence

- homeless people

Turning the Tide

True empowerment in all layers of leadership

Review the divine excellence in ourselves and all who we serve

See a role model of principles in action – so that we can return to the blueprint

JESUS CEO – as one model of corporate excellence

Becoming true leaders internally, externally and for all eternity

Programme overview Welcome & introductions

Business leadership trends

Spirituality in the workplace

The Jesus CEO model

Tea break

Theme 1: The Strength of Self mastery

Lunch

Theme 2: The Strength of Relationships

Tea break

Theme 3: The Strength of Action

Invitation – Jesus CEO Foundation

Closure

Workshop Guidelines Safe, effective learning experience

Speak for yourself and not for other people

Everyone is entitled to their personal opinions

Honour time limits

Cellphones to be switched off

It is okay to say No.

During breaks ask permission to continue

discussing a shared experience

Taking your leave at tea time

WHAT YOU PUT IN IS WHAT YOU GET OUT!

Getting To Know You

Name and organisation

Hometown and favourite food

What is working about current models of corporate

leadership?

What is not working (despite MBA’s and Phd’s)

Can you suggest one or two ways in which we can

lead differently.

Meaning of work ?

Why do you spend …

your labour for that which does not satisfy? -–Isaiah 55:1-2

When work doesn’t work anymore.

Women, work and identity

Elizabeth Perle McKenna (1997)

Workplace Trends

Where does spirituality fit in?

SPIRITUALITY

God and Business

Bringing spirituality into the workplace violates the

old idea that faith and fortune don't mix. But a

groundswell of believers is breaching the last taboo

in corporate America.

FORTUNE , Monday, July 9, 2001

by Marc Gunther

Searched the web for

spirituality in the workplace.

Results 11 - 20 of

about 117,000

http://www.spiritatwork.com/

Havard Business School 2002 & 2003

Leadership, Values, and Spirituality

Forum

"The Market as God - What is Moral Authority for Decision

Making?"

CEO Roundtable: Leadership Without Easy Answers

"The Soul of Leadership"

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

Walking the Tight Wire: Family & Career, Finding the balance

Genomics: Where does the science end and ethics begin?

Can Spirituality Drive Success?

Entrepreneurship & Values

Money, Media, & Morality

Leadership during Crisis Situations

Ethical Dilemmas in Globalization

Alternative Careers: The Road Less Traveled

What is Success? Business, Spirituality, and Values

The Loneliness of the

High-Powered Woman

CREATING A LIFE

Professional Women and the Quest

for Children

By Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Reasons for Interest in Spirit

at Work

Impact of downsizing

Workplace as a primary source of community

Exploration of spirituality

Spiritual disorientation

Reasons for Interest in Spirit

at Work

Baby-boomers’ soul searching

Advent of the knowledge age

Organization’s desire for competitive edge

Search for meaning in work

Business management &

leadership trends

1.

Taylorism

Scientific management

3.

Inspirational

Leadership icons

5.

EQ

IQ + EQ

6.

SQ

IQ + EQ + SQ

4.

Systemic

Context management

2.

Humanism

T – encounter groups

Emotional

Intelligence

EQ

Behavioural

Intelligence

BQ Common Sense

Intellectual

Intelligence

IQ

Spiritual

Intelligence

SQ

Head

Hands Heart

Spirit

Leadership Wisdom

Self

People

Leadership

Performance/Task

Management

Strategic/Goal

Management Visionary

Transformational

Leadership

Head

Hands Heart

Spirit

Leadership & Management

Major Functions

(Efficiency)

(Effectiveness)

(People Well-Being)

(Community/Culture)

Current corporate response?

Law & grace

Institutionalisation of morality

Laws are made to be broken

Grace gives us the opportunity to excel

Research study:

The Impact of Personal

Spiritual Practices in the

Workplace Alexis M. Todd

Literature Review

There is a difference between religion

and spirituality

Expressions of spirituality in the

workplace encompass values, attitudes,

and actions

Quantified benefits of

workplace spirituality include:

- increased profitability

- more effective customer service

- higher quality standards

- professionalism in the workplace

- better decision making

- improved business relationships

Spirituality is an integral part of my

day, whether at home, work or play

Agree

84%

Disagree

7%Neither

Agree or

Disagree

9%

N=600

professionals

Spiritual practices are a valuable addition to my

business life

73% agreed

19% disagreed

8% no opinion

Have you considered the effect of your personal spiritual practices on your performance in the workplace?

81% Yes

19% No

I believe that spirituality should be a part of a company’s culture

57% agreed 19% disagreed 24% no opinion

In what areas have your personal

spiritual practices benefited your

work ?

10%

11%

27%

32%

51%

59%

78%

Personal Sales

Profitability

Longevity with Employer

Productivity

Business Relationships

Job Satisfaction

Ethics

Do you use your personal

spiritual practices to/for

15%

34%

48%

51%

57%

58%

59%

60%

Improve amount of work done

Create a vision for your work

Improve relationships with co-workers

Strength to make tough decisions

Get guidance thru difficulty

Give Thanks for the day

De-escalate negativity

Become calm during crisis

Which of these words describe

your workplace?

25%

26%

29%

31%

32%

37%

38%

Open Comm

Partnership

Shared Vision

Creative

Honest

Respectful

Ethical

The inner journey

Being religious means asking

passionately about the meaning of

existence.

Paul Tillich

People are in every way prevented

from getting inside themselves. Our

greatest problem is a fear of depth

Thomas Merton

Job Satisfaction?

Group

survey

Why do you work?

Job, Career, or Calling?

How do you think of your employment?

1. It’s a job

2. It’s a career

3. It’s a calling

4. It's both a job and a career

5. It's both a career and a calling.

6. It's all three.

Group

survey

Job Satisfaction?

Group

survey

What would

be

your ideal

workplace?

The Six Obstacles to Embracing

Our Vocational Calling

1. We fail to take the time necessary to reflect upon our lives.

2. A sacred/ secular distinction in the understanding of vocation.

3. Failure to distinguish between vocation and career or occupation.

4. We may succumb to the 3 classic temptations:

power, security & significance

5. Misguided sense of duty.

6. Failure to appreciate our limits.

Challenge of the journey

How do we embrace our purpose in

life with our calling at work?

A frame of reference/model

Guiding principles

Courage of our convictions

Jesus CEO as a

model

Three Premises of Jesus CEO

Premise One

One person trained 12 human beings who

went on to so influence the world that time

itself is now recorded as being before (BC)

or after (AD) his existence


Premise Two

This person worked with a staff that was

totally human and not divine yet went on to

accomplish the tasks he trained them to

do.(Changing the world forever)


Premise Three

His leadership style was based on

techniques intended to be put to use

by any of us no matter who or where

we are.

Ken Blanchard (2002)

The One Minute Manager

‘ I soon discovered that everything I

ever wrote about or taught, Jesus did .

All I was doing was rediscovering

what he had already proven as simple

truths…’

Jesus as a leadership model displayed

3 categories of strengths

Strength of self mastery

Strength of relationships

Strength of Action

Are you strong in all three?

Success as a leader requires a total

combination eg. Doctors and

politicians

Goals

Heighten your awareness level in each

category and assist you in the process of

mastering them all.

Re-visit your current leadership mindset

Delete that which is no longer effective

Challenge you to install new ways of

effectively leading yourself and others

Let us remember the 7 gifts

of corporate life

Dignity

Acknowledgement

Prosperity

Integrity

Service

Community

challenge

New innovative leaders

Spiritreneurs (spirit-ra-nurs)

Spirit : the soul or heart

Entrepreneur : a person who organises and

manages an enterprise

Spiritreneur : an individual who fully

integrates her soul in a workplace

enterprise

Are you a Spiritreneur?

Would I be doing this work even If I weren’t

getting paid?

Am I doing this work as unto my God?

In a nutshell

Jesus CEO shares a style of leadership that

harnesses emotional, intellectual, mental and

SPIRITUAL ENERGY.

Not a quick fix or a get rich quick scheme

Seeks people who are willing to plant the seeds that

will lead to a harvest in the workplace(very holy and

fertile ground)

Leaders willing to implement models that will ‘turn the

tide’

Theme One:

Self Mastery

Theme 1: Strength of Self Mastery

Mastering Yourself (p.3)

Leading others and leading ourselves

How do we see ourselves when we are

alone?

Jesus had to go through the wilderness

before he began his greatest work

A wilderness experience shaped his destiny

– as it will yours and mine

The Wilderness Experience

Loss of job / identity

Traumatic experience

Challenges to your health

End of a relationship

Death of a loved one

Financial losses

No sense of purpose


In the wilderness we ( individual, team.

Organisation ) gets clear about :

- our gifts

- calling

- identity

- values

- priorities

- mission and vision for the rest of our lives


Jesus endured the temptations in the

wilderness

- ‘ Turn these stones into bread ’

- ‘ Throw yourself off this cliff ’

Wrong use of the gift / Wrong time, Wrong

reason

Abuse of privilege

Flirting with your strengths


Gifts can be used for the right or wrong

reason

Gang members

- Entrepreneurs

- risk takers

- team builders

- artists

Channeling gifts into the right context


What was your personal wilderness

experience?

What happened and how did it help you

focus more clearly on your gifts and calling?

How did it help you redefine yourself and

reshape the future?

Strength of Self Mastery

Speak in Word Pictures(p.4)

Jesus said :

I am the gate

I am the good sheperd

I am the vine

I am the truth

I am light

I am living water

Every picture communicated something people

could understand and relate to.

Speaking in word pictures

Did Jesus ever say anything negative about

himself?

Humility : understanding your part in the

world and what you came here to do – not

saying or thinking negative things about

yourself.

TV Screen

Speaking in Word Pictures

What is your self-talk personally and as a

leader?

Can you describe your self as an ‘ I AM ’

picture?

- bridge

- lighthouse

- sun

- arrow

Strength of Self Mastery

He Stuck to his Mission (p.5)

Jesus knew his mission and he did not

deviate from it :

‘I came that they might have abundant life’

Teaching and preaching

Holding seminars by the sea

Playing with children

He Stuck to his Mission

A mission is a clearly defined territory of

responsibility, part of a larger plan and

experienced as a calling.

Important Elements

It is no longer than a single sentence

Easily understood

Recited by memory at gun point

Written down


Vision : pictures and details that arise out of

a mission

Goals : action plans and ‘to do’ lists

At the core of your mission is your

PASSION.

- replaces your name

- reason that you live

- inspires you


False Assumptions

My job is my mission

My role is my mission

My ‘to do’ list is my mission

I am not currently living my mission

My mission must be full of suffering

My mission must be the same as my peers

What I am doing is the close as I can get to my mission


Imagine if you had all the power to :

- heal the sick

- raise the dead

- walk on water

- pull money out of a fish’s mouth

What will your day time look like?


Important to understand what Jesus did as

much as what he did not do.

War : ‘If you really want to defeat the

enemy,

simply distract them’

Why do leaders get off track?

There also needs to be an alignment

between individual and corporate missions

( high turnover, absenteeism, back

problems)


What is your mission?

Can you state it in a sentence of two?

Theme Two:

Relationships

He gave them a vision of something

larger than themselves p.37 (177-179)

Relationships based on shared vision

Search for meaningful work

Helping people see the ‘big picture’

Focus is not on the leader but on the goal

‘Where there is no vision the people will

perish’

He empowered women

p.41 (190-193)

Male-dominated culture & workplace

Legislative empowerment of women

Stress of proving self worth & significance

Dealing with other women

Dealing with men

Relationships in action: Head

He believed in them p.42 (197-199)

The role of a significant other

Basis of self esteem & worth

Sense of belonging

Being vs. doing

Relationships in action:

Hands

He served them p.52 (250-254)

Servant leadership (Robert Greenleaf)

Stewardship (Peter Block)

From Good to Great (Jim Collins)

Jesus at the Last Supper

Relationships in action: Heart

He prayed for them p.49 (230-231)

Mystical nature of prayer

Power of prayer

Prayer as purposeful contemplation

Act of genuine caring

Theme Three:

Action

Strength of Action

He was Bold and Visible (p24-25)

This is the way the world ends



Not with a bang but a whimper

T.S. ELLIOT

He was Bold and Visible

Evil triumphs when good people do nothing

Jesus did whatever it took

- knocking over tables

- shouting

- standing on mountain tops

He did the bold thing

Eg. Elijah

He was Bold and Visible

He knew that authority must be firstly

assumed within

What would change in your life, team and

organisation if you were 10 times bolder ?

What are 10 new ways to increase your

visibility?

Strength of Action

He Came From the Left Field(p.22)

Jesus did not come from the right side of town,was

not really handsome,not royalty

‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth’

Jesus was not exactly what people had in mind for a

leader

Few people consider themselves perfectly qualified

to lead

Stereotype – is being repeatedly broken eg

Jesus was one of God’s surprises are You?

He came from left field

Three calls to leadership

- burning bush

- burning heart

- burning house


Burning Bush

- Moses : Set my people free

- Yearning inside us that will not go away or

turn to ashes eg. A dream that is 20 years

old, something that has bugged you.

- Says you take this problem

- You own it!

- Go do it!


Burning Heart

- King David

- David and Goliath battle (chosen people)

- His heart was inflamed with anger

- Burning heart = Passionate desire


Burning House

- Queen Esther

- Jew living in the kings’ palace

- ‘Have you been created for such a time as

this…’

- Risked her life to save a nation

- She tapped into hidden courage once her

house began burning


In what ways do you ‘come from left field’ as

a leader?

What call to leadership do you feel?

Burning bush (message from the outside)

Burning heart (passionate concern)

Burning house (a crisis situation)

Creating Spirit at Work -

Individual

Know what matters

Choose the positive

Follow your inner guidance

Opt for transformative action

Appreciate and respect yourself and others

Live fully in the moment

Creating Spirit at Work:

Organization

Vision what could be

Align the work with the vision

Ground the organization in creativity and initiative

Create an environment that values people and their contribution

Build a sense of community

Jesus CEO Foundation

www.jesusceo.com

The Journey continues…

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore.

Dream.

Discover.

Mark Twain

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