Seeking the Soul of Business.

Christine Wicker is the author of Chapter 20 in Insights on Leadership titled “Seeking the Soul of Business.”

A key point of Wicker’s article is brought out when she talks about the philosophy of Servant-Leadership and says “managers who see the search for life’s meaning as a legitimate part of the workday and employees who seek to forgo personal ambition in favor of the common good. A goal of the philosophy is to judge employees and managers less on how much profit they generate than on how much help they give each other and the customers.” (p. 246)

Wicker’s words are a good followup to the quotes from Robert Greenleaf that I posted yesterday regarding what Greenleaf called "the new ethic" that can make work whole.