The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness

Leadership is the most crucial choice one can make--it is the decision to step out of darkness into the light.

Bestsellingauthor and spiritual guide Deepak Chopra invites you to become the kind of leader most needed today: a leader with vision who can make that vision real. Chopra has been teaching leadership to CEOs and other top executivesfor eight years, and the path outlined in The Soul of Leadership applies to any business, but the same principles are relevant in every community and area of life, from family and home to school, placeof worship, and neighborhood. At the deepest level, Chopra writes, a leader is the symbolic soul of agroup.

With clear, practical steps, you are led through the crucial skills outlined in the acronym L-E-A-D-E-R-S:

L = Lookand Listen

E = Emotional Bonding

A = Awareness

D = Doing

E = Empowerment

R = Responsibility

S =Synchronicity

After identifying your own soul profile and the core values you want to develop, you can use these seven skills to allow yourpotential for greatness to emerge. Only from the level of the soul, Chopra contends, are great leaders created. Once that connection

is made, you have unlimited access to the most vital qualities a leader canpossess: creativity, intelligence, organizing power, and love.

The Soul of Leadership aims to fill the most critical void incontemporary life, the void of enlightened leaders. You can be such a leader, Chopra promises. The path is open to you. The only requirement is that you learn to listen to your innerguide. In this unique handbook you are shown how to do just that, in words as practical as they are uplifting. The future is unfolding at this very minute, and the choice to lead it lies with each of us, hereand now.

From the Hardcover edition.

Looks at great leaders of the past and hones in on the key qualities, including their spiritual attributes, that made them successful and then lays out an action plan for understanding and mastering these qualities. By the best-selling author of Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul. 75,000 first printing.

“I greatly enjoyed Deepak's newest book The Soul of Leadership.  From the chapter on synchronicity on, I couldn't put it down.  It's got so many quality ideas that it must be read a second time. The book inspired me to become a better leader.”

—George Zimmer, Men's Wearhouse

 

“The Soul of Leadership unfolds as an exceptional guide for remembering how to access the peace and clarity the soul brings to any vision, decision, action, or non-action. Deepak Chopra’s latest book lights the way to 21st century leadership, where consciousness, love and compassion redefine the locus of power in relationships and organizations. A truly aware leader in touch with his or her soul will always be in the flow of the world. Like a tuned-in kayaker in white water, when you are in the middle of it, you continually contribute your own creativity and good intentions to the overall flow, while inspiring and empowering your team to do the same.”

—John Mackey, co-CEO Whole Foods Market

 

“Leadership begins at home and in the heart. Deepak Chopra offers not only a blueprint, a step by step guide to releasing the power of leadership within each of us, but a powerful call to action. By evolving toward an ever higher level of spiritual awareness, we have the capacity to change our lives and the world itself. An insightful, inspirational and much needed book.”

—William Cohen, Former United States Secretary of Defense

From the Hardcover edition.

Deepak Chopra is the author of more than fifty-five books translated into over thirty-five languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers in both the fiction and nonfiction categories.

L=look and listen — E=emotional bonding — A=awareness — D=doing — E=empowerment — R=responsibility — S=synchronicity — Jeremy Moon, founder and CEO of Icebreaker — Renata M. Black, founding director of Seven Bar Foundation — A template for awareness.