{"product_id":"leadership-and-spirit-isbn-9780787909499","title":"Leadership and Spirit","description":"Learn how you can harness your inner spirit to help yourself and those around you approach work with a renewed sense of purpose and satisfaction. In this book, Moxley shows how spirit can spawn a more vital and vibrant kind of leadership-one that, in turn, promotes the creativity, vitality, and well-being of others. Here, Moxley examines various leadership practices: those that elevate people's spirits and those that cause the spirit to wither and wane. He offers specific suggestions on what each of us can do to reach a new level of awareness regarding leadership. And he demonstrates how a spirited leadership that values rituals, celebrations, and employee input creates a totally engaged workforce; one that brings the whole person-mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual-to work.  Preface: A Story about this Book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Authors.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e TWO THREADS: LEADERSHIP AND SPIRIT.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Weaving Together Leadership and Spirit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Understanding and Experiencing Spirit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Leadership That Constrains Spirit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An Inspiriting Alternative: Partnership.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WAYS OF BEING, WAYS OF DOING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Who Are We to Be?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing Our Inner Life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What Are We to Do?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fostering Community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Rewriting the End of Our Story.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index.  \"Leadership and Spirit is a clear and insightful roadmap to bringing vitality and hope back into our institutions. It will renew your capacity to create harmony between your own values and how your bring leadership to work.\"(Peter Block, author, Stewardship and Flawless Consulting)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Insightful and convincing. Russ Moxley demonstrates persuasively that inspiring people to innovate and be creative is key to success in the knowledge era, and shows how leaders can achieve this by understanding people's need for meaning and for purpose.\"(Sally Helgesen, author, The Web of Inclusion and The Female Advantage)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Russ Moxley combines state-of-the-art knowledge of leadership with a profound and courageous personal spirituality to achieve an inspiring new way of talking about leadership. Anyone who thinks it has all been said already needs to read this book.\"(Peter Vaill, author, Spirited Leading and Learning)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Leadership and Spirit is a must-read for everyone who truly cares about the well-being of people and organizations. This book is the real deal.\"(Larry C. Spears, CEO, The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership) RUSS S. MOXLEY is a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past thirty years, he has been an executive coach, a trainer\/facilitator in a variety of management and leadership development programs, an OD practitioner, a writer and editor, and a senior-level manager in two different organizations. He received his masters degree in theology from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In a world where individuals too often feel spent and uninspired on the job, leadership that fails to incorporate the invigorating power of spirit is nothing short of incomplete. Leadership and Spirit gives all of us the perspective and guidance we need to invest ourselves, our fellow workers, and our entire organizations with the essential sense of purpose, commitment, and fulfillment that spirit can confer. Author Russ Moxley of the Center for Creative Leadership shows leaders at all levels how they can link leadership and spirit to spawn a more vibrant and essential brand of leadership-one that, in turn, promotes the creativity, vitality, and well-being of others. Basing his advice on nearly thirty years of work with hundreds of executives and managers in all kinds of organizations, Moxley encourages readers to elevate their understanding of leadership practice and embrace the concept of leadership as partnership—a model that involves all employees at various times. This model, he maintains, will help everyone concerned find new meaning and satisfaction in their work. And he offers specific suggestions on who each of us must be and what each of us must do in order to make partnerships work. Here, Moxley explains what spirit is and shows why leadership and spirit must be woven together. He analyzes prevalent leadership practices and demonstrates how many of those practices cause spirit to whither and wane. He focuses on the skills and behaviors that give voice to our true selves and increase our capacity to engage in the activity of leadership. And he demonstrates how spirited leadership serves to create a totally engaged workforce; one that brings the whole person-mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual-to work. Most of us have experienced the difference and realized the impact it can have on individuals and organizations: Leadership can be practiced in ways that either suffocate the spirit or liberate its boundless potential. Leadership and Spirit help  In a world where individuals too often feel spent and uninspired on the job, leadership that fails to incorporate the invigorating power of spirit is nothing short of incomplete. Leadership and Spirit gives all of us the perspective and guidance we need to invest ourselves, our fellow workers, and our entire organizations with the essential sense of purpose, commitment, and fulfillment that spirit can confer.\u003cbr\u003e Author Russ Moxley of the Center for Creative Leadership shows leaders at all levels how they can link leadership and spirit to spawn a more vibrant and essential brand of leadership-one that, in turn, promotes the creativity, vitality, and well-being of others. \u003cbr\u003e Basing his advice on nearly thirty years of work with hundreds of executives and managers in all kinds of organizations, Moxley encourages readers to elevate their understanding of leadership practice and embrace the concept of leadership as partnership—a model that involves all employees at various times. This model, he maintains, will help everyone concerned find new meaning and satisfaction in their work. And he offers specific suggestions on who each of us must be and what each of us must do in order to make partnerships work.\u003cbr\u003e Here, Moxley explains what spirit is and shows why leadership and spirit must be woven together. He analyzes prevalent leadership practices and demonstrates how many of those practices cause spirit to whither and wane. He focuses on the skills and behaviors that give voice to our true selves and increase our capacity to engage in the activity of leadership. And he demonstrates how spirited leadership serves to create a totally engaged workforce; one that brings the whole person-mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual-to work.\u003cbr\u003e Most of us have experienced the difference and realized the impact it can have on individuals and organizations: Leadership can be practiced in ways that either suffocate the spirit or liberate its boundless potential. Leadership and Spirit helps us choose the latter.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989515288805,"sku":"NP9780787909499","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787909499.jpg?v=1761784417","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/leadership-and-spirit-isbn-9780787909499","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}