WHAT TIME IS IT?
Spiritual Intelligence in the workplace
HUNGER AND THIRST FOR WHAT ......?
Paul Munro
1992
More to us than meets the eye
- People come in to work each day to so something
- mainly to support themselves and their families.
- Above this though, people want to have a sense
that their job however mundane, is helping to
achieve a wider purpose than bringing home a
pay-packet.
Living with dis -ease
“I do my best thinking at home”
“There must be more than this”
“Lonely in the crowd”
“ Am I living from the inside out or being lived from
the outside in”
“What is this organisation for?”
“What are we all doing here, day in day out?”
Spirituality – learning to see
again
Key concern
- why people do not see very well.
DECEPTION
What is it that keeps us from reading ourselves,
others, the world -truthfully, humbly and helpfully?
Spirituality as a journey of seeing myself, the world
and others in ever broader and less self-serving
frames – more lovingly
Struggle to see again - Transformation is about
being grabbed, awed, being held. Wisdom is the
freedom to be present.
Seeing clearly
Buddha and the trim young soldier
To see rightly need to not only have technical knowledge and
skills – but need to deal with ego, greed and power.
Castenada
It takes a little courage to bomb a building
• But to stop being Jealous
• To see the poverty of our limited achievements
• To accept the limitations of our ego’s
This demands that we remake ourselves.
Remaking ourselves
Viscount Slim in Defeat into Victory
“Morale is a state of mind”
It is that intangible force which will get a whole
group of people to give their last ounce to achieve
something, without counting the cost to themselves;
that makes them feel that they are part of
something greater than themselves.
Foundations of morale and
Attitude
Slim lists the foundations of morale as spiritual,
intellectual and material.
• Spiritual first, because only spiritual foundations
can stand real strain.
• Next intellectual – because besides values and
emotion human beings are swayed by reason
• Material last- important, but last, because the
very highest kinds of morale, are often met when
material conditions are lowest.
So what’s it all about?
1.Becoming a cause – purpose
2.Refusing to be an effect – a victim
Courage is moral, intellectual and spiritual
It’s about aligning NEED
with
TALENT
CONSCIENCE
PASSION