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The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground
Who will succeed in the twenty first century?
Today's creative business leaders already know the answer and it's not about cutting overhead downsizing or meeting next quarter's budget. Corporate
leaders of the twenty-first century will be spiritual leaders-- grounded in vision, integrity and intuition--and they will know how to nurture these
qualities in others.
Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman have been training top executives for more than twenty-five years. They have distilled the experience of the hundred wisest
businessmen and women they know into nuggets of just-in-time wisdom that take no more than a minute or two to read. You will
* The twelve qualities of twenty-first-century leaders
* How to make breakthrough decisions with intuitive ease
* The visionary's ability to think twenty years down the line
* How to spot and correct integrity problems in your organization
* How to create a mind-set of prosperity in yourself and your company
Drawing on insights and observations from legendary CEOs like Bob Galvin ofMotorola and Ed McCracken of Silicon Graphics, The Corporate Mystic also
offers spirited solutions to the day-in, day-out problems of business. You'll learn what these visionaries with their feet on the ground say
* Giving and receiving honest feedback
* Ending destructive turf battles
* High-firing people who drain your energy
* Handling big wins and big losses
* Protecting your creative think-time
* And much much more.
Whether you're a new hire or already division chief The Corporate Mystic is a book to nourish your soul and light your path to professional
success.
Today's creative business leaders already know the answer and it's not about cutting overhead downsizing or meeting next quarter's budget. Corporate
leaders of the twenty-first century will be spiritual leaders-- grounded in vision, integrity and intuition--and they will know how to nurture these
qualities in others.
Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman have been training top executives for more than twenty-five years. They have distilled the experience of the hundred wisest
businessmen and women they know into nuggets of just-in-time wisdom that take no more than a minute or two to read. You will
* The twelve qualities of twenty-first-century leaders
* How to make breakthrough decisions with intuitive ease
* The visionary's ability to think twenty years down the line
* How to spot and correct integrity problems in your organization
* How to create a mind-set of prosperity in yourself and your company
Drawing on insights and observations from legendary CEOs like Bob Galvin ofMotorola and Ed McCracken of Silicon Graphics, The Corporate Mystic also
offers spirited solutions to the day-in, day-out problems of business. You'll learn what these visionaries with their feet on the ground say
* Giving and receiving honest feedback
* Ending destructive turf battles
* High-firing people who drain your energy
* Handling big wins and big losses
* Protecting your creative think-time
* And much much more.
Whether you're a new hire or already division chief The Corporate Mystic is a book to nourish your soul and light your path to professional
success.
240 pages, Paperback
First published February 3, 1996
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About the author
Gay Hendricks
109 books505 followersDr. Gay Hendricks has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, At the Speed of Life, and Five Wishes.
Gay received his PhD in counseling psychology from Stanford University in 1974. After a 21-year career as a professor at the University of Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia, and Europe. He is also the founder of a new virtual learning center for transformation, Gaia Illumination University.
Throughout his career, Gay has done executive coaching with more than 800 executives, including the top management at such firms as Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, and KLM. His book, The Corporate Mystic, is used widely to train management in combining business skills and personal development tools.
In recent years he has also been active in creating new forms of conscious entertainment. In 2003, along with movie producer Stephen Simon, Gay founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle, which distributes inspirational movies to subscribers in more than 70 countries around the world. He was the executive producer of the feature film Conversations with God, and he has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including Oprah, CNN, CNBC, 48 Hours, and others
Gay received his PhD in counseling psychology from Stanford University in 1974. After a 21-year career as a professor at the University of Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia, and Europe. He is also the founder of a new virtual learning center for transformation, Gaia Illumination University.
Throughout his career, Gay has done executive coaching with more than 800 executives, including the top management at such firms as Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, and KLM. His book, The Corporate Mystic, is used widely to train management in combining business skills and personal development tools.
In recent years he has also been active in creating new forms of conscious entertainment. In 2003, along with movie producer Stephen Simon, Gay founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle, which distributes inspirational movies to subscribers in more than 70 countries around the world. He was the executive producer of the feature film Conversations with God, and he has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including Oprah, CNN, CNBC, 48 Hours, and others
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October 19, 2010
This book didn't have a fair shot with me:
1st the cover is HIDEOUS
2nd I misread "Mystic" for "Mystique" (not that one is better than the other)
3rd It is waaaaaaaaaay to fraught with oportunites for jokes!
For example, you know how people say "in bed" after reading a fortune cookie? Well I kept thinking "unless you've been drinking" after many of the, what were supposed to be profound, sentences in chapter 1. Try it for yourself:
The book says, "If you feel like somehting isnt' said in conversation...stop right there and say so"
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "If you tell the truth, you don't always have to remember what you said"
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "You need to have a totally honest relationship with yourself."
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "There are three feelings you need to become comfortable with, so comfortable that you can talk about them calmly. These are fear, anger, and sadness."
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "There is no such thing as a minor lapse of Integrity"
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
Now, lest you think I'm some kind of lush because I automaticaly go to the drinking place, I will remind you, as I do before many of my stories, that "I'm not a big drinker"* and there were other things that I thought were a little hard to get behind.
Like this statement, "Our bodies are where our feelings live, not our minds." What?! I mean I know the Egyptians were wrong about the function of our hearts but are we wrong again?! Did I memorize those diferent sections of my brain for pshychology 101 for NOTHING?! Where is fear? is it in my toe and not the stem of my lower brain (or whatever my teacher said). This is all too much!
and this quote by Frank Zappa, "In the battle between you and the world, back the world." Call me narrow minded but it just seems odd to take buisness advice from anyone with the last name Zappa.
and finaly, I've had to fire someone before and while this book gives a unique approach to how I might have gone about it, I just can't imagine myself actually saying, "“I’m taking a major stand for turth and keeping agreements in my life. We havnt’ had a relationship in which we’ve had hight intergrity. Would you be willing to base our relationship on integrity form here on out?” I just found it so much more effective to say something along the lines of, "you can't steal shit, you're fired".
So, this book may be chaulk full (is that how you spell it? "chaulk" where does that come from?) of geat advice but I'm having a hard time getting to that ubiqituous "ah-ha moment" through all the "ha-ha" moments.
*It's true that the following word is usually, "but,this one time..." but that's kind of beside the point isn't it?
1st the cover is HIDEOUS
2nd I misread "Mystic" for "Mystique" (not that one is better than the other)
3rd It is waaaaaaaaaay to fraught with oportunites for jokes!
For example, you know how people say "in bed" after reading a fortune cookie? Well I kept thinking "unless you've been drinking" after many of the, what were supposed to be profound, sentences in chapter 1. Try it for yourself:
The book says, "If you feel like somehting isnt' said in conversation...stop right there and say so"
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "If you tell the truth, you don't always have to remember what you said"
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "You need to have a totally honest relationship with yourself."
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "There are three feelings you need to become comfortable with, so comfortable that you can talk about them calmly. These are fear, anger, and sadness."
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
The book says, "There is no such thing as a minor lapse of Integrity"
and now you say,
"unless you've been drinking"
Now, lest you think I'm some kind of lush because I automaticaly go to the drinking place, I will remind you, as I do before many of my stories, that "I'm not a big drinker"* and there were other things that I thought were a little hard to get behind.
Like this statement, "Our bodies are where our feelings live, not our minds." What?! I mean I know the Egyptians were wrong about the function of our hearts but are we wrong again?! Did I memorize those diferent sections of my brain for pshychology 101 for NOTHING?! Where is fear? is it in my toe and not the stem of my lower brain (or whatever my teacher said). This is all too much!
and this quote by Frank Zappa, "In the battle between you and the world, back the world." Call me narrow minded but it just seems odd to take buisness advice from anyone with the last name Zappa.
and finaly, I've had to fire someone before and while this book gives a unique approach to how I might have gone about it, I just can't imagine myself actually saying, "“I’m taking a major stand for turth and keeping agreements in my life. We havnt’ had a relationship in which we’ve had hight intergrity. Would you be willing to base our relationship on integrity form here on out?” I just found it so much more effective to say something along the lines of, "you can't steal shit, you're fired".
So, this book may be chaulk full (is that how you spell it? "chaulk" where does that come from?) of geat advice but I'm having a hard time getting to that ubiqituous "ah-ha moment" through all the "ha-ha" moments.
*It's true that the following word is usually, "but,this one time..." but that's kind of beside the point isn't it?
December 5, 2012
The book is a great summary of many of the other reading related to leadership I reading. There is a place in the workplace for the spiritual feeler...I expected this book to be very mushy but it was not at all, very to the point. Also I picked it up used for $1.50 so I feel like I stole it:) I'll buy a hard cover edition for Xmas.
May 19, 2021
While it's an old book with an updated 2019 version that I've ordered, it's still choke full of wisdom from spirituality applied in a business context. It's really great to see a bridge between the two worlds and hopefully a gateway and invitation for those in corporate to show up in a more authentic and integral way.
November 7, 2017
One of my all-time favorites. I can read for 5 minutes, or 50 minutes. So much to reflect on...it deeply inspires me as a leader. Vision, integrity, inspiring commitment....all the "soul" aspects of being a leader.
January 4, 2022
¿Porque leo estos libros en vez de leer la divina comedia?
Digamos que estoy buscando algo...
Aquí encontré un pequeño pedazo del rompecabezas, a veces tengo que leer libros que no me dejan algo productivo.
Nada que no se ha dicho anteriormente, con algunas cosas de más.
Digamos que estoy buscando algo...
Aquí encontré un pequeño pedazo del rompecabezas, a veces tengo que leer libros que no me dejan algo productivo.
Nada que no se ha dicho anteriormente, con algunas cosas de más.
August 16, 2022
Meh. It was ok but not life-changing.
May 27, 2023
A go-to for anyone who's building teams, culture and struggling to come to grips with new roles. It's for an owner mindset.
November 30, 2015
This is a business/ leadership book that covers much of the same ground as the rest of the genre, but to be fair, they probably got there ahead of their time. Published in the mid-1990s, compared to its contemporaries this may have been pretty new age stuff. But, for today, it read like many other books.
The authors make the case that in order to be successful in life and business it is essential to incorporate the spiritual into the professional. They provide guidance for developing a meditation practice and give advice on asking the tough questions to assist with the development of leadership based on integrity and authenticity.
The authors make the case that in order to be successful in life and business it is essential to incorporate the spiritual into the professional. They provide guidance for developing a meditation practice and give advice on asking the tough questions to assist with the development of leadership based on integrity and authenticity.
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March 12, 2013Since reading _The Big Leap_, I've been running around, grabbing everything by this author that I can get my hands on. Not sure about this one, though. When one of the shining beacons in the introduction is the CEO of Monsanto, well... This was written a long time ago; maybe the company was good then, and it's only after this guy retired that they started wrecking the planet and destroying the food supply? I think I'll have to find out before I can interest myself in reading any more.
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Really don't feel like reading this. Back it goes.
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Really don't feel like reading this. Back it goes.
February 6, 2008
Good but you have to like business books or you would be bored
October 14, 2008
Having read this book makes me aware that business is something that have to be organized by heart
June 23, 2009
surprisingly good no name business book! a little mystic.. but Hendricks really nailed the principles to focus on
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February 1, 2010recommended by principal. Pertinent to education and corporate cultures.
April 20, 2012
A must read for any leader of people.
April 10, 2013
Interesting view on successful leadership
April 4, 2015
De lectura simple que proporciona varias ideas y reflexiones interesantes y vigentes aún con el tiempo transcurrido.
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