The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that soul is in . In a headline calling it the buzzword of the millennium a front-page story reported that some 322 citations for the word appear in the current edition of Books in Print. That s nearly four times the number in 1990. As my Canadian colleague Ian Percy describes it, our workplaces are experiencing a great shuddering .
Workers are no longer willing to rent themselves to a job to survive to the weekend.
Rather, this term soul implies looking for a deeper purpose behind work other than just gaining a paycheck. It also implies that people want to be identified as whole individuals with brains, hearts, AND souls waiting to be opened within the workplace. Note the phrase waiting to be opened . It carries the same connotation as the first word in this article s headline, uncovering . Wise leaders have known how to access it, for themselves first, and then for others.