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    Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary
    Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary
    Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary
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    Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary

    By Deborah J. Haynes and Michael Shernick

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    Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary offers lessons not usually taught about leadership, lessons learned over the author's more than thirty years in higher education and nonprofit organizations.

    Few resources on leadership and administration attend to the inner life of a person in a leadership position. Many of this book's themes are therefore related to the inner moral and spiritual life. Some topics are prosaic, dealing with everyday activities. Throughout the book, "pith instructions" offer simple practical advice about the inner process and core values that may inform the leadership path. Haynes draws on the world's wisdom traditions--philosophy and religion, mysticism and theology, including indigenous beliefs and rituals--as rich resources for reconceiving leadership.

    This abecedary includes drawings by artist Michael Shernick, which are paired with entries from the "chronicles of experience," etymology and poetry, examples of contemplative practice and meditation, and metaphoric digressions. Common elements--such as lists and advice--mix with uncommon elements, including recipes. This primer will provide inspiration and insight for navigating the shoals, deep water, rocky coasts, wind, and sunny climes of the leadership journey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPickwick Publications
    Release dateNov 2, 2012
    ISBN9781621899082
    Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary
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    Deborah J. Haynes

    Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is both a writer and artist. Haynes has published several other books: Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (1995), The Vocation of the Artist (1997), Art Lessons (2003), Book of This Place: The Land, Art & Spirituality (Pickwick Publications, 2009). Bakhtin Reframed is forthcoming.

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      Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path

      An Abecedary

      Deborah J. Haynes

      Artwork by Michael Shernick

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      Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path

      An Abecedary

      Copyright © 2012 Deborah J. Haynes. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Pickwick Publications

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      isbn 13: 978-1-62032-227-7

      eisbn 13: 978-1-62189-908-2

      Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

      Haynes, Deborah J.

      Spirituality and growth on the leadership path : an abecedary / Deborah J. Haynes ; with artwork by Michael Shernick.

      xvi + 100 pp. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

      isbn 13: 978-1-62032-227-7

      1. Leadership. 2. Management. 3. Organizational effectiveness. 4. Spirituality. I. Shernick, Michael. II. Title.

      hm1261 h39 2012

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      A — Administrator

      B — Beginnings

      C — Change

      D — Digitality

      E — Energy

      F — Foresight

      G — Garden

      H — Hope

      I — Impermanence

      J — Jollity

      K — Kitchen

      L — Leadership

      M — Mindfulness

      N — Net

      O — Ontology

      P — Place

      Q — Quarrels

      R — Rest

      S — Spirituality

      T — Time

      U — Universe

      V — Vision

      W — Wisdom

      X — Xenophobia

      Y — Yesterday

      Z — Zipper

      Epilogue

      Selected Resources

      Endnotes

      Colophon

      For those who aspire to lead and in appreciation for those who have gone before

      Acknowledgments

      I offer my gratitude first to Michael Shernick, whose initial excitement about creating imaginative botanical illustrations for this book has come to fruition in the volume you now hold.

      This Abecedary was inspired by many sources, including the natural world, poetry, and individuals in leadership positions. I mention nature first, because every day in the world provides revelations that influence both present joys and my sense of future possibilities.

      The inspiration to read poetry, and to try my hand at writing it, comes from the mother-line in my family, especially my mother Mary Elizabeth Clark Haynes (1925–2005), whose library contained treasures that I mined as a young girl. My sister Catherine, a wise and gifted therapist, has shared many poems over the years, from W. B. Yeats to Wendell Berry, May Sarton to Mary Oliver. I found my own way to the ancients such as Herakleitus and to Russian poetic traditions, where Marina Tsvetaeva took my heart. Reading Japanese haiku of Basho, Issa, and others has motivated me to try to find images that express succinctly what my discursive mind would take volumes to tell. Many poets, living and dead, have furthered my poetic passion, but here I would mention M. C. Richards (1915–1999), Olga Broumas, Norman Weinstein, Gary Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield, each of whose work occupies a unique place in my consciousness.

      Among individuals within the academy, I thank Dr. John Pierce, my first academic dean; Dr. Gretchen Bataille, the first provost with whom I had genuine dialogue; and Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman, the first university president whom I got to know as she demonstrated what indefatigable energy really means. College Deans Peter Spear and Todd Gleeson led with unusual grace. Associate Dean Merrill Lessley was an incredibly skilled dialogue partner. At other moments, Associate Deans Graham Oddie and Darna L. Dufour showed me the space between intelligent leadership and friendship. I learned about styles of leadership from more distant observation of Provost and Chancellor Phil DiStefano at the University of Colorado; Dr. Wilson Yates, former President of United Theological Seminary; Bob James, former Fine Arts department head for decades at the University of Oregon; and Dr. Margaret R. Miles, former Academic Dean at the Graduate Theological Union. Over many years, I worked closely with exceptional individuals who taught me how to lead, and serve. Here I would mention Valerie Albicker, Alexei Bogdanov, Mildred Burgermeister, Shelley Dahme, Erika Doss, Linda Finfrock, Terry Greenberg, Linda Kerr-Saville, Del Kyhn, Sarah Matsuda, Sue Middleton, Elaine Paul, Lia Mir Pileggi, Rick Seydel, Michael Shernick, Lisa Tamaris Becker, and William Rumley.

      In nonprofit organizations, I owe special debts to Michael Jones, Diane Jones, Kim Mooney, Sarah Varick, Bev Kronisch, Denise Hmieleski, Julie Thomas, and Reta Morrisette, as well as the dedicated staff in several Planned Parenthood offices around the country.

      Many other individuals helped to nurture my leadership aspirations and hone my skills. I watched my mother struggle with unfulfilled ambitions throughout her life, while my father worked his way up the corporate ladder to become vice president of an international corporation. My sisters—Ann Cecile Thomas, Marie Christine Cannon, and Catherine Mary Haynes—supported me at every step. My son Mitchell Pearce is a corporate leader in his own right. And my husband David Thorndike has observed my process over nearly thirty years, heard my stories, and queried me often about my interpretation of events. Among many mentors on my leadership path, I must mention Sharon Campbell, with whom I spoke repeatedly about my aspirations and how they related to actual experience.

      Special thanks to those who read chapters of this book and offered their feedback, including Mark Amerika, Lanny DeVono, Darna Dufour, John Frazee, Todd Gleeson, Catherine Haynes, Betsy Hoffman, Elvira Henson, Merrill Lessley, Bev Murrow, Hank Murrow, Margaret R. Miles, Elaine Paul, John Pierce, Andrea Rubin, Peter Spear, Tom Sebok, and Judith Thorpe.

      In the literary production of this book, I offer gratitude in particular to award-winning editor Melanie Mulhall (http://www.DragonheartWritingandEditing.com), whose suggestions to me were both brilliant and practical. Helena Mariposa (http://www.ebooktransformation.com/) provided excellent assistance near the end of the writing process. The staff at Wipf and Stock—K. C. Hanson, Christian Amondson, Diane Farley, and Patrick Harrison—were absolutely superb to work with, and I appreciate this second opportunity to publish with them.

      Finally, I am most grateful to my spiritual teachers, especially B. K. S. Iyengar, Angela Farmer, Victor Van Kooten, Felicity Green, Pema Chödrön, Larry Rosenberg, the Venerable Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche, and to the Mangala Shri Bhuti sangha, whose dedication to Buddhist practice and to collaborative leadership is a powerful inspiration.

      Preface

      The title of this book is meant to elicit curiosity. What, you may ask, is abecedary? What does spirituality have to do with leadership? And how is leadership a path? While the book as a whole will answer each of these questions, here, at the outset, I offer an orientation to what follows.

      The word abecedary is derived from the Latin abecedarium, alphabet or primer, and refers to a book arranged in alphabetical order. This is the book’s structure.

      Spirituality is a fuzzy term with vast implications across cultures and history. The term points toward the beyond, however we conceive it, and to our deepest core values. The world’s wisdom traditions—philosophy and religion, mysticism and theology, including indigenous beliefs and rituals—are rich resources for reconceptualizing leadership. Although I do not purport to be an expert, I draw on these reserves of wisdom.

      The book does not presume a particular religious or secular orientation, but is pertinent for people in a range of leadership roles across institutions, from universities to seminaries, from nonprofit organizations to businesses. It is designed to be relevant to any organization where one is called to a position of leadership. This Abecedary is meant to provide inspiration, a book that might be kept on one’s desk during the course of a day, opened at random or opened as a particularly hot topic arises. Metaphors of growth are interwoven throughout these pages, with creative botanical illustrations by artist Michael Shernick.

      At its foundation, the book asks you to undertake the inner work that can provide a compass for navigating the mundane affairs related to administration and management. I believe that leadership is a path, a way in the Taoist sense—a way to move, literally, but also a way of life. Some of us take this path as a duty, an institutional obligation, because we believe it is our turn. Often, we enter our first leadership position simply because we have been asked to take the job or our peers have elected us. Some see leadership as a path to power, self-affirmation, or self-aggrandizement. Some see it as a vocation, a true calling through which to serve others.

      This last reason applies to my own leadership path. My formal academic degrees—BFA and MFA in visual arts from the University of Oregon, MTS from Harvard Divinity

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