Peter Senge on Spirituality in Business

"As I think about the word spirit or spirituality, I immediately think about its multiple meanings. And one that often gets lost is what I am doing. If you think about someone who really has moved you as a person, someone whom you would regard as having depth, a spiritual quality, what they do is a key dimension of their distinctiveness. Something about the way their life is focused and their energies are directed is in line with something that was quite integral or essential to them. For me, work was an extraordinary opportunity to deal with these questions."

"All of us have the central concern about using our lives well. Obviously, it would be easy to overstate this point and not recognize very powerful cultural counter-forces pulling in the opposite direction. As I mentioned, there is a belief in our culture that the purpose of a business is to make money. This perspective is almost universal. There is also a story about us as individuals—that what we really care about in life is ourselves. What we care about is how much money we make, and how much power we have."

--Peter Senge, Spirituality in Business and Life:Asking the Right Questions

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