Working with Spirit : To Replace Control with Trust

Working with spirit introduces a ground breaking process that evokes leadership from the deepest level of any organization seeking to achieve greatness. Based on eighteen years of applied organizational change at Ford Motor Company, author Richard Gutherie, integrated the most successful, leading edge concepts of learning organizations and self-organizing leadership principles with the ultimate source of all power and energy, our eternal spirit.

One of the greatest desires of all men and women is to make a difference in this world. Many of us feel trapped in jobs that stifle who we really are. This belief acts like a key that locks away our amazing potential. But this key can be turned the other way!

According to the Bible, our spirit is made up of three key elemental boundaries that encourage a continuous cycle of growth, expanding over time to evoke our true potential. These elements are faith, love and truth. If we could find a way to root our communication process into these three elements, the potential of any organization would expand far beyond the highest expectations that any CEO, Manager, Superintendent, Principal, Teacher or Parent could hope for.

This 106 page book efficiently documents the role of spirit and leadership in our personal and business lives without reference to religion. It ends with a series of slides and presenter notes used at Ford to facilitate a 2 day workshop that aligned individual aspirations to organizational goals.

During this workshop, managers become teachers to lead authentic conversations around where we are today and what needs to happen tommorrow. Participants leave with renewed commitment to each other and a deep respect for diversity.