Reframing Ethics and Spirit

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Reframing Ethics and Spirit

• Chapter 19

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Ethics Defined

• What shall a man or organization profit if it
  gain the whole world but lose its own soul?
• What is the soul of an organization?
• How does one read the soul?

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• Young executives?
• Or
• Kids without supervision?
• What is oxygen to organizations?

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Activity - Read the Soul

• Enron
• Merck
• Southwest Airlines
• Your organization
• Is there such a thing as a latent soul?

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Leaders Responsibility

• What responsibility does the leader have in
  shaping the soul and spirit of an organization?
• What benefits result?

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Organizations, Ethics, Soul

• Good ethics and soul are central to both the good
  life and the good organization.

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Factory Excellence and Authorship

• Peters Waterman
• All organizations pursue excellence
• Why do so few find it?
• What can leaders do to foster excellence? (2
  minutes)

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Family Caring and Love

• Compassion and concern is both the purpose and
  glue that holds a family together
• Why is it often lacking from organizations today?
• Who are ultimate beneficiaries of family
  organizations?

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Jungle Justice and Power

• What is the duty of the leader in an avowed
  political jungle?
• How does the leader accomplish that glue that
  holds everything together?
• What does lack lead to?

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Three Levels of Power

• Individual influence immediate work environment
• Group No dominance by majority Enhance power
  of ethnic, racial, gender diversity
• Organizational Relationships with other groups.
  Input, dialog

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Temple Faith and Significance

• Work is about calling, commitment
• Is your work about
• Cutting stone
• Building a cathedral?
• Serving God?

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Temples Need

• Spiritual leaders with concern for soul to help
  people
• Find meaning
• Find significance
• Sustain their faith
• How do spiritual leaders do this?

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Ethics and Soul Summarized

• Leaders will not always give the right answer and
  make the right decision
• Global pressures present challenges
• Ethics must be rooted in soul