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The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness

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"The Soul of Leadership" is a guidebook that not only encourages us to step up and take a leadership role in our lives and our communities, it shows us exactly how to do it. Deepak Chopra based this book on a course that he teaches at Kellogg's School of Business at Northwestern University. We may not be so lucky as to be able to take his class at this prestigious school, but we can read the book, and benefit from the wisdom in it. I'd like to see every college student have this book as required reading. The potential for greatness is within each one of us. By accessing it we help ourselves, and the world. Isn't that what we need right now?

This book is inspired by a course that Deepak Chopra teaches at Kellogg's School of Business at Northwestern University. It is full of great wisdom and practical advice.

Chopra points out that a great leader has a vision that inspires others, and the ability manifest this vision. Where does this ability to manifest a vision come from? It comes from knowing your spiritual self and from being aligned with and rooted in a place of inner peace, love and joy on the level of the soul. Both emotional and spiritual intelligence are needed. Additionally a leader needs to understand and know how to meet the different levels of needs within the group.

A great leader leads the group towards evolution instead of stagnation, towards an increase in the group's consciousness instead of a decrease, towards expansion instead of constriction, and towards serving the souls purpose instead of the opposite. Chopra also warns against leadership traps such as: obsessing over risk, avoiding problems, not being in tune with the groups needs, not taking responsibility for bad decisions and their consequences, blaming others and making excuses, craving approval and reassurance, not delegating authority - or delegating but still keeping a tight grip on all decisions, looking out more for yourself than the group, only listening to a few select voices, lying or covering up the truth.

The book guides you with Chopra's L-E-A-D-E-R-S formula:
-Look and Listen both inside and outside of you on the level of body, mind heart, and the soul, and ask the right questions.
-Emotionally bond with employees and customers and form real relationships. Employees need to feel they are truly part of the business, so deep motivation, and a sense of purpose and loyalty can form.
-Awareness is important so you can be conscious of who you are and of your impact on others, as well as the role of the business in the world. Intuition allows the leader to go beyond logic and reason, but still use those for justification.
-Do and be action oriented. Allow your vision to come to life.
-Empowerment beyond the ego level ("I", "me", and "mine") motivates and enables both you and employees to contribute.
-Responsibility is the freedom to choose and make changes. Allow employees the freedom to take their own risks. This means allowing both your own and employees' growth and expansion.
-Synchronicity is generated from the level of the soul, and it purposefully paves the way for the change you are looking for. This goes far beyond good luck.

Read this book so you can learn to know yourself and increase your ability to manifest change in an effective way, both inside and in the world. Allow yourself to move towards greatness!

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As a great fan of Deepak's I was thrilled to read this book. He brings the elements of leadership to the fore as a spiritual as well as practical issue. You cannot separate a leader from what he or she is like on the inside and what their foundation is because out of that flows their decisions and actions.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in leadership as well as to all managers in the business world. There is much here to provoke your thinking.

I am a huge fan of writings from Deepak Chopra. This is an amazing book and has great insights to help us along the leadership path. I also had a great experience with the shipper. No problems!!!

Deepak Chopra is the most popular writer in the world on health matters. Leadership is another area of his expertise.

I am a huge Deepak fan but this did not keep my attention. It felt like it lacked the usual power of his words.

In his latest book, Deepak shows us how to use our greatness to benefit the world... to release the power of leadership within ourselves using consciousness, compassion and love (which to me, is always the key). Like all his works, The Soul of Leadership offers techniques to attain a higher level of spiritual awareness, in this book, to change not only our own lives, but our endeavors, our world.

If you follow Deepak's guidance, you'll learn to define your own values so you can be the "symbolic soul" of your community or business, and have access to the creativity, smarts, power and love to be an enlightened leader. We so need more of these in the world today. Read this book and join them!

Namaste! Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

This is an excellent leadership book for those of us interested in more than POWER in leadership. Instead it deals with the "symbolic soul of the group", giving practical steps to get you where you want to go!

I enjoyed this book so much. I feel it should be required reading in management school. It can be benifical to everyone in a leadership role, whether in the home, church, not- for-profit organization as well as the corporate world. I found it very interesting to see how a leader can relate to their team based on each individual's level of consciousness.

Excelente libro para todo aquel que quiera distinguirse en cualquier profesion. Generar atracción hacia los demas convirtiendose en lider. Este libro me encanta por que acara los verdaderos valores de que es ser lider. Lider no es el que mas dinero tenga ni el que tenga la posicion mas alta. Lider es aquel que comprende la importancia de desarrollar una pasión, una voz interior y poder atraer a los que piensan como tu. Este libro es una excelente herramienta. Yo lo recomiendo a todos lo que trabajan sobre todo en equipos.