Conscious Business Leaders as Healers

Conscious Business Leaders as Healers of Enterprises : 

Conscious Business Leaders as Healers of Enterprises Jay Kumar, M.A. Copyright©2010 Living Your Light® www.livingyourlight.com Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Business and Consciousness : 

Business and Consciousness Business always reflects the consciousness of its time and people. The way in which a corporation’s business model functions is a direct reflection of the consciousness of its LEADERS. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Three Main Points of Lecture : 

Three Main Points of Lecture The primary role of a conscious business leader is to embrace a life that reflects a consciousness of Wholeness. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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Doing so frees others in your organization to do the same, which in turn eventually enables the entire business structure to awaken to a state of Wholeness. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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A conscious business leader is analogous to a “holistic healer” as you facilitate the patient (i.e. your business) to return to its original state of Wholeness. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

New Global Shift in Consciousness : 

New Global Shift in Consciousness “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein. Likewise we can’t solve the problems in business by repeating the same story and paradigm by which we’ve been living. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

OLD Paradigm of Consciousness : 

OLD Paradigm of Consciousness • Reductionist • Fragmented • Linear • Hierarchical • Disconnected from the greater Whole Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

NEW Paradigm of Consciousness : 

NEW Paradigm of Consciousness Holistic Totality Wholeness Interconnectedness Non-linear/Non-localized Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Language and Consciousness : 

Language and Consciousness • Intimate connection with consciousness and language. • Our words and thoughts reflect a deeper level of human consciousness. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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HEALTH = WHOLENESS DISEASE/ILLNESS = DUALITY/SEPARATION Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Businesses as “Living Entities” : 

Businesses as “Living Entities” Businesses, like their leaders, also possess energy and consciousness. IN CRISIS when they are disconnected from the Whole IN HEALTH when they are connected and one with the Whole Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

You are Conscious Business Healers : 

You are Conscious Business Healers Our current business model is “diseased” and is experiencing a global “healing crisis” as it is disconnected from the Whole As Conscious Business Leaders, you are HEALERS! You first bring a Wholeness of Being to yourself, which then extends to the organization to become Whole = Health Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

OLD SCHOOL Business Leaders : 

OLD SCHOOL Business Leaders Who Best Embodies the “Diseased” Old Paradigm of Business? Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Poster Child of the Old Paradigm in Business : 

Poster Child of the Old Paradigm in Business The Simpsons, Trademark & Copyright Notice: ™ and © FOX and its related entities. All rights reserved. http://wtso.net/movie/364-821_The_Old_Man_and_the_Lisa.html Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Key Points : 

Key Points Personal life should be separate from and never interfere with your work in order for you to succeed. Nature is the enemy of business and must be conquered for a business to earn profit. Money can change people’s values. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Poster Child for the New Paradigm of Business : 

Poster Child for the New Paradigm of Business Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS The Simpsons, Trademark & Copyright Notice: ™ and © FOX and its related entities. All rights reserved. • Befriends Nature • Courage to stand up to the old paradigm • Embodies passion and purpose in all areas of her life • Integrity and Ethics

Old Business Paradigm reflected in Language : 

Old Business Paradigm reflected in Language “Learn How to Balance Your Work and Personal Life” Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

“Balancing” Your Work & Personal Life : 

“Balancing” Your Work & Personal Life Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

It’s Just LIFE! : 

It’s Just LIFE! Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

When did work stop becoming fun? : 

When did work stop becoming fun? • Overheard a person at the Moscone Center as people were leaving a crowded lecture hall. Guy turns and says to me , “After you, I’m in no hurry to leave. I only have to get back to work.” • Would he have said the same thing, if he were about to meet a hot date or go to the beach? • Again, a separation of work from life. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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“If all you’re getting from work is a paycheck, you’re being grossly underpaid.” – Alan Cohen “Work is love made visible.” - Khalil Gibran “Whistle while you work” - Walt Disney Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Group Exercise : 

Group Exercise Identify 3 qualities that you best embody in your personal life that are NOT equally expressed in your work life. Why do you feel that these qualities are lacking in your work? What steps can you take to make them equally abundant in all aspects of your life? Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Crisis as Opportunity for Healing : 

Crisis as Opportunity for Healing “Within man is the soul of the Whole.” Ralph Waldo Emerson True for both individuals, society and in business Nature as a role model for Healing/Wholeness Reflections on Business from Indigenous Peoples - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9piIziXU9RE&feature=related Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

A Business Paradigm from Nature? : 

A Business Paradigm from Nature? What if there were a model of business that took its principles from the laws of Nature? Could that work? Is it even possible? Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

YES, IT IS! : 

YES, IT IS! "We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -- a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed." Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Old Paradigm Dying : 

Old Paradigm Dying Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS The Simpsons, Trademark & Copyright Notice: ™ and © FOX and its related entities. All rights reserved.

Who said this…a hippie tree hugger? OR… : 

Who said this…a hippie tree hugger? OR… “The mechanistic, hierarchical, command-and-control idea of organization that originated with Newton, Descartes, and the Industrial Age. That concept of organization is not only increasingly archaic and irrelevant, but it’s also antithetical to the human spirit and destructive to the biosphere. It has become a public menace.” Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

SURPRISE! : 

SURPRISE! Dee Hock, Founder & CEO Emeritus of VISA Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

VISA – A Conscious Business, Really?! : 

VISA – A Conscious Business, Really?! Hock’s concept of “chaordic” systems Chaordic = Chaos + Order are integrated into a greater Wholeness Charordic structures model Nature. This is possible in all systems, including business Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Success of a Conscious Business : 

Success of a Conscious Business “The success of any organization has infinitely more to do with clarity of shared purpose and principles, and strength of belief in them, than it does with management practices or resources, important as they may be. Without the hearts and minds of people, all assets are just so much inert chemical and mineral material.” (Training and Development. Copyright 1997, the American Society for Training and Development.) http://www.zampellagroup.com/resources/articles/Vision%20of%20Dee%20Hock.pdf Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Business based on Natural Law : 

Business based on Natural Law The ideal organization is one that is based on biological concepts. It would have to evolve and have to integrate competition and cooperation. This is exactly what we see in Nature. This is exactly the basis for VISA. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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VISA’s organizational philosophy was based on Hock’s concept of Charodic Wholeness. Before Visa Inc's IPO in early 2008, it was operated as a cooperative of 22,000 financial institutions in nearly 200 countries. These banks and financial institutions both compete with each other for 1 billion customers AND must cooperate by honoring one another’s $125 trillion in transactions annually across global borders and currencies. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Setting the Stage for VISA : 

Setting the Stage for VISA 1966 - the fledgling bankcard industry was in trouble. Ferocious competition, fraud, and massive losses. BofA also licensed the BankAmericard program to banks in several other countries, Chargex; Carte Bleue; Barclay Card By 1972, licenses had been granted in 15 countries, each with their own currency and independent financial regulations. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

The Catalyst for Change : 

The Catalyst for Change Faced with these issues, Hock pondered, “If anything imaginable was possible, if there were no constraints whatever, what would be an ideal organization to create the world’s premier system for the exchange of monetary value?” Dee Hock was about to revolutionize the bankcard industry and create a new model of business based on Wholeness and Natural Law. http://corporate.visa.com/about-visa/our-business/history-of-visa.shtml Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

VISA’s Unified Vision : 

VISA’s Unified Vision “The organization must be equitably owned by all participants.” “Power and function must be distributive to the maximum degree.” “It must embrace diversity and change.” Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Key to VISA’s Success : 

Key to VISA’s Success “Virtually everyone thought it was technology that made VISA succeed. Or because it was in financial services. They didn’t even see the significance of the organization - that its success was about a new way of creating relationships.” Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Empowering the Whole Person : 

Empowering the Whole Person “When you start to think of an organization in terms of biological metaphors, you must acknowledge the whole human being – body, mind, and spirit. Not the segregated entities of Newton’s time, but the whole person, with emotions, intuitions, beliefs, and thoughts. When you bring all that to the table, an interesting thing happens: Discussions of change become value-based.” Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Wholeness of Purpose & Principle : 

Wholeness of Purpose & Principle “A purpose is not an objective, it's not a mission statement—a purpose is an unambiguous expression of that which people jointly wish to become. And a principle is not a platitude—it is a fundamental belief about how you intend to conduct yourself in pursuit of that purpose. You have to get very precise about these things. If the purpose and principles are constructive and healthy, then your organization will take a very different form than anything that you ever imagined. It will release the human spirit and will be constructive of the biosphere.” Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Checking the Pulse of Your Business : 

Checking the Pulse of Your Business Ask 5-10 random colleagues in your organization, what is the common purpose and principle of the business? If you get the same general theme as an answer – Great! You have a Healthy/Whole business. If you get 5-10 divergent or “I don’t know” as responses – Trouble! You have a company in crisis. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Characteristics of Chaordic/Conscious Business : 

Characteristics of Chaordic/Conscious Business Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS • Clarity of shared purpose and principles • Self-organizing and self-governing in whole and in part • Powered from the periphery, unified from the core. • Durable in purpose and principle, malleable in form and function. • Harmoniously combine cooperation and competition. • Compatible with the human spirit and the biosphere. • Compatible with and foster diversity, complexity and change http://www.zampellagroup.com/resources/articles/Vision%20of%20Dee%20Hock.pdf http://www.zampellagroup.com/resources/articles/Vision%20of%20Dee%20Hock.pdf

Steps for Becoming a Conscious Business Leader/Healer : 

Steps for Becoming a Conscious Business Leader/Healer Once a common purpose and principle have been reached, LIVE it! As a CBL and Healer you live by example. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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Allow the actions of the organization to grow continually and organically from the shared purpose and principles. Your role as a CBL is to hold the sacred space for this to occur. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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Embrace flexibility and change in the business. Remember that all change is an integral part of the greater Whole. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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Establish a core of integrity within yourself. Then promote it with all members of the team. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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Foster a community in harmony with itself and its environment. This is your ultimate role as a CBL – to “heal” and bring back the business into a state of Wholeness and alignment with the Laws of Nature. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

The Golden Rule for Conscious Leadership : 

The Golden Rule for Conscious Leadership Remember and list all things done to you in business that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. Make another list of things done for you in work that you loved. Do them for others, always. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Group Discussion : 

Group Discussion What are the ways in which you can become a more effective Conscious Business Leader based on the principles of Wholeness? Specifically, identify one thing you can do tomorrow to implement greater Wholeness and interconnectedness between your personal life and work life? Are these qualities you, as a CBL/Healer, would be able to impart to others in your business? Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Who do you want as your role model? : 

Who do you want as your role model? Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS The Simpsons, Trademark & Copyright Notice: ™ and © FOX and its related entities. All rights reserved.

Conscious Business Leader Motto : 

Conscious Business Leader Motto Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS “Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.” Dee Hock

Changing the I to WE : 

Changing the I to WE Illness = Separation = Business in Crisis Wellness= Wholeness = Business in Health Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Thank You : 

Thank You Keep on LIVING YOUR LIGHT and keep on LEADING WITH YOUR LIGHT! Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS