What is it about?
The sacred is a felt experience of individual connection the larger collective whole. As such it performs important work in organizational leadership. It helps individuals interpret their organizations and it binds individuals together with a sense of shared mission. The sacred is also critical for upholding the idea of leadership itself and therefore is an important asset if one wishes to create new leadership configurations.
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Why is it important?
It is clear that we need some sort of reformation in our leadership structures. In order to create new systems that work for more people, we need to better understand the complicated psychological and social dynamics which undergird our notions of leadership. The article proposes that the notion of the "sacred" is one such idea.
Perspectives
At its core, this article seeks to advance how the notion of the sacred might inform difficult challenges that organizations face. It draws on a major theory from the 20th century first proposed by Emile Durkheim. I hope it expands our imagination for how leadership and organizations might function in the 21st century.
David J Worley
Iliff School of Theology
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This page is a summary of: Sacralizing leadership: The role of the sacred in enabling organizational sensemaking, cohesion, and identity, Leadership, September 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1742715018803253.
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