Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary
Ebook
Overview
Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary offers lessons not usually taught about leadership, lessons learned over the author's more than thirty years in higher education and nonprofit organizations. Few resources on leadership and administration attend to the inner life of a person in a leadership position. Many of this book's themes are therefore related to the inner moral and spiritual life. Some topics are prosaic, dealing with everyday activities. Throughout the book, "pith instructions" offer simple practical advice about the inner process and core values that may inform the leadership path. Haynes draws on the world's wisdom traditions--philosophy and religion, mysticism and theology, including indigenous beliefs and rituals--as rich resources for reconceiving leadership. This abecedary includes drawings by artist Michael Shernick, which are paired with entries from the "chronicles of experience," etymology and poetry, examples of contemplative practice and meditation, and metaphoric digressions. Common elements--such as lists and advice--mix with uncommon elements, including recipes. This primer will provide inspiration and insight for navigating the shoals, deep water, rocky coasts, wind, and sunny climes of the leadership journey.
"A scholar, an artist, a PhD from Harvard in religion and fine
arts, and an experienced academic leader, this powerful reflection
of Deborah Haynes's integration of all of these forces in her life
resulted in her advocacy of a leadership path that is both
authentic and deeply rooted in service to others."
--John Pierce, Retired Executive Director, Oregon Historical
Society
"This is a unique and wonderful book about leadership. It has a
practical as well as a philosophical and ethical view of what it
takes to be an effective leader. Haynes has both the scholarly
background and the leadership experience to know. . . . This book
is equally outstanding at describing the spirituality as well as
the how-to knowledge necessary to lead."
--Peter Spear, Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of
Wisconsin
"Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path is a work that will
feed the spirit of those in leadership positions, from academic
officers to corporate executives, from nonprofit directors to
clergy in the church. . . . This is an invitation to explore how we
can feed our inner life and discover our work to be a vocation
rather than simply a job."
--Wilson Yates, President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of
Religion, Society, and the Arts, United Theological Seminary
Product Details
- Title : Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary
- Authors:
- Haynes, Deborah J.
- Shernick, Michael
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781621899082
Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is both a writer and artist. Haynes has published several other books: Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (1995), The Vocation of the Artist (1997), Art Lessons (2003), Book of This Place: The Land, Art & Spirituality (Pickwick Publications, 2009). Bakhtin Reframed is forthcoming.