The Soul of Leadership by Deepak Chopra

Author:Deepak Chopra [Chopra, Deepak]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-45172-9
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

Hope: Hope is intangible because it rests upon belief. Your role is to be believer-in-chief. You hold out hope for a better future than anyone else can see. Hopelessness is the most tragic turn that life can take, depriving people of a vision for their future. The suffering of today blights hope for tomorrow. But at the soul level the future is always open because unseen possibilities can always awaken. (When Gallup pollsters asked workers if their leaders made them feel encouraged about the future, 69 percent of those who said yes were also engaged in their work; only 1 percent of those who said no were engaged.)

As a leader you must keep the horizon full of promise. Promise provides power. Instinctively people realize this, and they cling to hope even when a crisis seems beyond repair. In the worst storms, hope is the flickering candle that a leader cannot allow to be extinguished.

To give another person hope, a leader’s inspirational words are only the beginning. When we lose hope, we become directionless. Therefore a leader must provide clear direction, a definite step-by-step plan. Eventually people can be allowed to provide their own direction, which in itself will be a sign of hope, but until then you must provide it. Work hands on to guide the group through all the recovery efforts that follow an immediate crisis. Also, respect the weakened position that people find themselves in. Guide them past shame and guilt. Providing guidance means holding out the values that need to be restored, such as self-confidence, competence, and worthiness. Through your showing that you see these values in others, they will begin to see them in themselves. When you show others a concrete way to move forward, you give them a reason to have faith. That’s proof that they have crossed over to the transpersonal, since faith is based on belief in a higher power, however you choose to define it.

The tools for building hope are direction, guidance, and faith.

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