This new focus led to increases in profits, productivity and product and service quality, as this affected how the company is perceived by customers and stakeholders. In 1986 The Caux Round Table, based in Minnesota, pioneered a list of Principles for Business, an international code of business values formulated by senior business leaders from Japan, Europe, the United States and Canada. The spirituality in business movement is one of the encouraging signs that corporations, as the most powerful institutions in world, may finally be transforming from within. What is emerging is a new attitude towards the workplace as a place to fulfill our deeper purpose. As Kahlil Gibran reminds us in The Prophet.
Work is love made visible.
Corinne McLaughlin is Executive Director of The Center for Visionary Leadership, which offers public educational programs, values-based leadership training and consulting services.