Contemplative leadership for entrepreneurial organizations
Subtitle: paradigms, metaphors, and wicked problems
By: Nancy J. Eggert.
Publisher: Quorum Books; Quorum
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Leadership.; Organization.; Paradigms (Social sciences)
Description: Synthesizing elements from linguistics, philosophy, and the histories of science and spirituality, Dr. Eggert opens the door to new ways of thinking, perceiving, valuing, inquiring, and acting for leaders of entrepreneurial organizations. She maintains that the main-stream leadership paradigm both opens and closes possibilities for inspired leadership. Today's leaders need an alternative because the dominant leadership paradigm is no longer serving them well.

Her book illustrates the contemplative tradition, exemplified by the 14th century mystic Meister Eckhart, and offers a set of fundamental assumptions about organizational life that can serve as precisely the sort of alternative paradigm needed to challenge the current logical-rational paradigm inherited from the Enlightenment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-279) and index.