Overview

This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA world entails, and how it affects businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole. Secondly, the book develops new perspectives on the processes of leadership, spirituality, and discernment, particularly in this VUCA context. These perspectives are interdisciplinary in nature, and are informed by e.g. management studies, leadership theory, philosophy, and theology.

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Author:   Jacobus (Kobus) Kok ,  Steven C. van den Heuvel
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9783319988832

ISBN 10:   3319988832
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   06 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Metanarraphors we Lead and Mediate by: Insights from Cognitive Metaphor Theory in the context of Mediation in a VUCA world.- The Quest to Lead (with) Millennials in a VUCA-World: Bridging the Gap between Generations.- Personal leadership as Form of Spirituality.- Leading Organisations in Turbulent Times: Towards a Different Mental Model.- Spirituality and Leadership in a South African Context.- Still Points: Simplicity at Key Management Niches in Complex Companies.- How to Integrate Spirituality, Emotions and Rationality in (group) Decision-making.- Embodied Realism as Interpretive Framework for Spirituality, Discernment and Leadership.- A Well-played Life: Discernment as the Constitutive Building Block of Selfless Leadership.- Discerning Spirituality for Missional Leaders.- Challenging the New ‘One-Dimensional Man’: The Protestant Orders of Life as a Critical Nuance to Workplace Spirituality.- From Spirituality to Responsible Leadership: Ignatian Discernment and Theory-U.

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Prof. Dr. Jacobus (Kobus) Kok is Full Professor and Head of Department New Testament Studies at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium. He is also a Senior Research Associate and NRF Y1 rated scholar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Dr. Steven C. van den Heuvel is Postdoctoral Researcher in Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium) and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics. He is also an Extraordinary Researcher in the Unit for Reformed Theology and Development of the S.A. Society at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, South Africa.

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