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)
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
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
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, 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
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
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
Three Premises of Jesus CEO
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)
Three Premises of Jesus CEO
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 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
The Wilderness Experience
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
The Wilderness Experience
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
The Wilderness Experience
Gifts can be used for the right or wrong
reason
Gang members
- Entrepreneurs
- risk takers
- team builders
- artists
Channeling gifts into the right context
The Wilderness Experience
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
He Stuck to his Mission
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
He Stuck to his Mission
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
He Stuck to his 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?
He Stuck to his Mission
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)
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
Strength of Action
He was Bold and Visible (p24-25)
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
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
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!
He came from left field
Burning Heart
- King David
- David and Goliath battle (chosen people)
- His heart was inflamed with anger
- Burning heart = Passionate desire
He came from left field
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
He came from left field
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
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