Spiritlinking LEADERSHIP by Donna J. Markham Ph.D

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Spiritlinking LEADERSHIPby Donna J.
Markham Ph.D

• History and Philosophy of Ideas
• GRS601
• Patricia L. McDonald

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Spiritlinking LEADERSHIP

• Working through Resistance toward Organizational
  Change

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Spiritlinking

• The deliberate and untiring act of working
  through resistance to organizational
  transformation by building the circle of friends,
  fostering networks of human compassion and
  interweaving teams of relationships through which
  new ideas are born and new ways of responding to
  the mission take form and fine expression.2-3

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Spiritlinking

• When communication is limited or controlled by
  outmoded, rigidified authority structures that
  prohibit human beings from interacting,
  spiritlinking is aborted in the silence. 8

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Spiritlinking

• Every human organization responds in an
  unconscious and intricately exquisite way either
  to the health or to the pathology of its leader.
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Synergy

• The energy-laden, unexpected accord or
  communication that emerges in a group so that
  momentum can be channeled toward the good that is
  held in common. 15

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Groupthink

• Interferes with leaderships ability to act on
  behalf of the common good because it has closed
  off alternative courses of action. 80

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Community

• The Human Expression of the Yearning for
  Relationship and Purpose 96