My takeaways:
‘Organizations are not the things listed in their balance sheet; they are the brains, motivations, knowledge, character, and emotions of all the humans behind the balance sheet. To work together effectively, to enjoy each other and therefore our work, we must relate with each other beyond our phony facades.’
‘The environment tells the truth directly to the soul, regardless of what the personalities are saying.’
‘Winning the respect, trust, affection, friendship, and loyalty of others, especially customers, suppliers, employees, and even ‘competitors,’ is the path to soulful profitability.’
‘If the leaders of an organization don’t trust and respect their own people enough to share information about the organization upon which they depend for their livelihood, why would those people treat their leaders any differently?’
‘All work is sacred and all work is soulwork.’
‘Without information and decision-making authority, what other work will knowledge workers do in the information age?’
‘The personality seeks to enhance the ego, and gaining power over others is the way the personality measure success. … Those who seek positions of power, rather than leadership, frequently consolidate their authority by increasing their control over others. Only when the soul is invited to share the responsibility of leadership does an invisible code of trust, love, and respect replace the edicts, policies, and rules of the mechanical organization.’
‘An excess of negative energy in an organization results in atrophy of the soul, caused by the external demand for the soul’s positive energy.’
‘The organization, and the souls within it, are constantly releasing and absorbing energy and amplifying the positive or negative energy fields in the system.’
‘Negative energy creates a negative field, which translates into a deterioration of the soul as well as the personality.’
‘Leaders who listen to the needs of their customers and suppliers and meet these needs, and employees who constantly refresh their skills will survive and grow.’
‘Creating opportunities for learning individuals leads to the development of the learning organization, and this, in turn, leads to a critically important learning goal- the learning society.’
Source
Lance H. K. Secretan (1996). Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations That Inspire the Soul
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