Spiritually Based Businesses Outperform Others Globally
Sunita Singh Sengupta, Ph.D.
Founder: ISOL GLOBAL FOUNDATION
The insights that I gathered from the experiences of 30 years of my professional life as a researcher, teacher, trainer and consultant are suggested here:
- Organizations are not able to involve the whole individual to achieve its potential to the fullest and the transactional leadership style is not effective enough to engage the individual’s mind at work.
- The prevalence of increasing exploitative and violent behaviour at work place happens because of the absence of purpose driven powerful and principled managerial practice and organizational strategy.
- The strategies we employ have not given us the desired results. The relentless pursuit of egoistic gratification has led to the current situation of corporate greed and lack of trust amongst people. The clarion call is to create a morally healthy sustainable environment for social, economical and individual growth.
- Sustainable development requires strategies that advance the system by which we live on the planet and hence there is a need to incorporate the holistic development of person and society.
- Organizations need to develop strength based practices and therefore it should promote leadership that nurtures the spirit of each stakeholder in order to create harmony at workplace and society. The need of the hour is to promote compassion, love and truth at workplace so that non-violent, non-exploitative and sustainable organizations are created.
- Modern strategic doctrine mostly fails to include, the person and his aspirations and aims, in the strategic framework. People (employee and investors) are the strength of the organizations and the leader who integrates this understanding creates an environment where people can use their full potential, feel appreciated and grow in the process.
- Organizations need to create enabling environment to develop winning minds.
- There is a need to develop a rhythm between thought, feelings and actions – at both individual and organizational levels – for prosperity and harmony at workplace and society.
