RSSAuthenticity In Business: Making Money And Making Nice
Jun 16, 2009 Friends and Partners
From 1990 – 1995, I was involved with the Spirituality in the Workplace movement with folks such as Willis Harmon, Hazel Henderson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Martin Rutte. I think we were a bit early, but I think it’s really never too early to combine spiritual business practices with making money.
There was always the fear that if people were treated fairly, and truly served each other and their clients, that companies couldn’t make money. It was considered ‘too soft’. So I dumbed-down my public thoughts about sales and servant-leadership, and saved them for prospect/client conversations. And I put gentle referrences to it in my book titles (Selling with Integrity for example) as I developed my servant-leader-based sales method. Hey, it’s possible to make money and make nice!
Tags: authentic leadership, authenticity in business, CSR, spiritual business practices
