Teaching The Wisdom Of Business

Vision. Collaboration. Clarity. Urgency. Accountability. Integrity. Innovation. Empowerment.
These are the traits of the world’s top corporate leaders and these attributes can be fine-tuned and developed fully:

• Seeing things as they actually are, using a data centric approach to making decisions.
• Learning new leadership skills that are specific and deeply authentic for you.
• Powerfully leading from center, not from personality.
• Accomplishing hard work with ease and grace.
• Eliminating suffering in the work place.
• Living your legacy today.

Executive development in these areas improves the wisdom of not only the individual but also the team and community. Often we help executives with these skills as they face new challenges so they can become good leaders. But to become a great leader you also need the strength of compassion.

Opening the Heart of Compassion

Happiness. Joy. Empathy. Acceptance. Awareness. Warmth. Forgiveness. Passion. Openness.
These, too, are all skills that great leaders exhibit internally as well as within the world around them. Executives that have an advanced degree of compassion are the leaders we want to follow. Many executives have focused only on wisdom and have forgotten the skill of compassion. Fortunately, just as you can improve your intellect, you can exercise and learn new skills of the heart:

• Driving your team with passionate detachment.
• Connecting deeply and instantly with every one.
• Experiencing how all things arise to pass away.
• Seeing how all actions are interconnected.
• Listening to your heart for guidance.
• Experiencing Universal Truths.

Compassion, although often confused with, is not the same as sweetness, sympathy or lack of action. Rather, it is a deep, heartfelt skill to be developed just like your other skills. The word compassion means literally “the ability to be with suffering.”

Wisdom coupled with compassion results in leaders like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Al Gore, Bono and the Dalai Lama. This kind of quality is clearly evident in companies like Google, Starbucks, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others, where they have reached fantastic commercial success by supporting both employees and customers from the heart. It is said that for the bird to fly, both wings need equal strength.  With well-balanced wings of Wisdom and Compassion your company will fly stronger and higher.

Building the Awareness of the Body

Balanced. Grounded. Connected. Radiant. Strong. Extended. Vertical. Energized. Flowing. Presence.
These are all attributes you experience when you are aware of your intuitive body. Functioning from your “neck up” gets you hired, but sadly many executives lose touch with the body that supports them through the rest of thier lives. Fortunately you can work on specific skills to improve your body awareness:

If not now, When?