What exactly is Business Spirituality? It remains a question that many are still struggling. In short, this is the answer to the question of how an organization, what kind of organization also, in our turbulent environment can sustain itself and grow.
This specific question is a manager with me: what should we do? My obvious answer is the question: what do you want? Which often follows the reaction: that is exactly our problem, that we do not know, because the situation is unclear and the changes are so fast that we do not know anymore. This may not even the best manual solution.
Then comes my next question: who are you then? What is your power, what is your weakness, what opportunities do you see and where are you inclined? That is the question of the identity of a company, the deepest vocation which is supported by the organizational culture. That answer is not easy to give. It requires a deeper reflection on the core values of the organization. These are typically found in the founders of the company, because they have the company up from a deep ideal, from a high level of expertise and a strong team.
This land is the primal source of inspiration and strength of the organization was. Unfortunately, that source in the course of history became polluted, clogged or dried up with the result that the inner spiritual strength of the company was lost. The recovery and restoration of this inner force, that is the point at Business Spirituality. It consists of expertise to effectively work. That is a profit, results, and successfully achieve something. This expertise comes into its own only in a strong team and achieved something great from a strong idealism and profound spiritual strength.
The consistency of these business skills, strong team spirit and his deep inspiration Business Spirituality. This is true even for the family as a mini-organization as well as a family needs money, a strong team spirit and a great idealism. Business Spirituality is good business, careful, disciplined, and from a deep inspiration. That requires investment and tenacity.
| Sincerely, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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Both the blog of Paul de Blot, if the reactions are very interesting and telling the story to my idea about the breadth of this topic. The scientific and by analyzing the facts as Rob Dry doing is only partially possible on an intangible reality.
In my opinion it is certainly possible to trace and identify universal values but is the essence of spirituality in business correspondence between the "soul" and mission of an organization and the daily communications of all people who are directly connected to this.
If you can be to some people ask why they are in company X, with high spirit and mission factor, are going to work out the answers that corporate values represented as: everyone really works together towards the goal and we celebrate together party when we get them, my ideas are taken seriously and used, people are happy and work hard for their clients, communication is direct and transparent, is stimulated to grow, proud of my logo, etc.
If you are a year later to the same people asking why they are there STAY work, you invariably get the same answer. The organization (group of people with a mission and vision and plan and method of work etc) makes it happen!
Sometimes the staff can not name but they will for the same reason the company started working. "Good atmosphere, positive mentality"
In summary, it is the soul father, the entrepreneur / founder of the soul or spirit translated into a mission and a vision. He creates with words a vision of the company and places it under a meaning for people.
This makes them inspired and partakers of that soul and mission and are going to propagate everywhere they go. It is the leaders of an organization to continue to feed the soul and future to continue to create. If that does not happen, the organization is soulless and is at best a quarterly driven profit machine, where people work without a spiritual reason for that. It is perishable!
I myself as an entrepreneur founded a company to grow hard and annually after 7 years to crash with a bankruptcy in early 2010. The crisis was the final push, but the death of my business was because the soul was kept alive by myself. The remain engaged with the powerful future and here on a monthly communication with all stakeholders is a necessity.
Very, very painful but especially instructive. A major breeding ground and inspiration for my next company. Congruence of meaning, identity, beliefs, values and behavior are the heart of the company. No heart no soul!
Finally, spirituality is a long term business which is leading. Now a decision that the profit for the next 2 years will maximize, but the company is unfortunately a couple of years erodes economic reality. Stock market prices, shareholders are real and often have a confounding effect on business spirituality.
It remains the task of founder / leader to that soul and mission to keep alive and nurture all people committed to keep them together so consciously and unconsciously continue to act to the corporate values that come from the soul / spirit and mission. So you always recognize the company and its employees in the marketplace. That's business spirituality.
Ton-Peter Spaapen
Top Pick Paul,
I agree with your concept, combination or correlation between competence (IQ), strong team spirit (EQ) and deep inspiration (SQ). This trend is in the future.
gr.syafiih
Again that word, spirituality ... knowing and acting in light of the operation of Spirit. Ms Zohra Noah that "psycho sofia" called. Literally: Recognition of the operation of mind .... Your argument uses the word spirituality is but it remains somewhat vague while in my opinion is pretty easy to clear.
When should an attempt ... Spirit is in everything and others, also in the movements that people make in their business. Business spirituality, recognizing the operation of Spirit in Business, may I also say in the way people conduct their business? There's also, I think than the workable point, how and where people from doing that. A company itself is also a manifestation of Spirit, but it's the people that Spirit properties in that company can realize. That seems to me a matter of awareness that people from the operation of Spirit. And if that's true Spirit is really seen, then that is visible in the way a business can be conducted. You would be able to nominate properties, eg transparency, justice, generosity, but also clarity and straightforward and always in relation with the whole. Aware of individual, country, continent, earth movements and universal karmic ...
All in all, it starts with the human and from which he or she makes choices ... choices which in turn are determined by the level of awareness of the operation of Spirit. Without awareness of the operation of Spirit and without referral or appointment, I think the name "Business Spirituality" only an exciting name with little real spiritual meaning ....
So my response back reading, I think my point is that I believe spirituality is a real development or deployment process to begin making any misconception, religious or scientific assumption or belief, any illusion will eventually go down. And, and that seems inevitable, eventually it will remain what indisputably true and real in the lives and experiences of a man in connection with his or her world ... That is, in my experience spirituality to, coming to the core ... now the path for this purpose ....
And, after twenty years of extensive process of doing so have been there quite a bit to draw conclusions, there are a lot of rules that are found everywhere and always work and where, there are links found everywhere and always be true, are Thus patterns were found. And all these things have to do with a huge connection between the body of the man himself in spirit, in man as an individual and his surrounding world, and his surrounding world and the world ... etc ...
The words naming them in detail, the stand for precisely those patterns found spirituality provides a sound and color, an indispensable distinguishes people and movements that spirituality can not handle.
You mentioned: The consistency of these business skills, strong team spirit and his deep inspiration Business Spirituality.
But what is his inspiration? For business expertise and a strong team spirit I find in many places, even in places where violence and lompigheid triumph so then which inspired the link to spirituality? But even in places where violence and lompigheid triumph could be a huge inspiration to the motive and the engine for a well-oiled organization, nazies knew all about that ... I think if you really distinguish wants to by something Business Spirituality to mention, the essence of spirituality really must go appoint. So to the laws, discoveries, logical inferences to be appointed so that the color is conclusively known.
There are so many people who find themselves spiritually in their lives and in their work and actually are in no way distinguished from people who just such sweet, gentle, nice, passionate with some knowledge and a religious tinge, whether Western or oriental oriented, but still have no real notion of what really and irrefutably true ... I'm coming from many who think to know something, but a way of life and show insight which suggested that this is not the case because we face it .... a man who preaches the depth but still an arrogant turd floating, has not the deepest lessons in themselves manifest and still lives in his or her own castle created.
So far.
I find it odd in this speech that you are "profit" presupposes, something for successful performance. Incidentally, that "something" still far from beneficial. I believe that the current financial / economic world situation to improve the rationale should be beneficial business in an ethical manner at such widely as possible to set up or expand. That this profit to be made for several reasons logically acceptable, but not with the mind to possibly the greatest possible profit to the detriment of the open-minded consumer.
@ JHvan the Steenhoven: I go out of the reality of the nth crisis where profits have been the strongest factor.