Beacons of Business - 32

[Guest guest]

Sairam Sisters and Brothers,

We will continue with Andrè L. Delbecq, Director - Institute for Spirituality of

Organisation Leadership, J. Thomas and Kathleen L. McCarthy University

Professor, Santa Clara University, Alameda, CA, USA.

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"At Santa Clara we have formed a meditation community (The Community of Joseph)

and we meet for 3 hours every week for intense prayer on behalf of

organisational leaders. Members of the community are primarily executives, who

are often engaged in very complex discernment. The Community of Joseph exists

to provide a place of intense prayer for leaders. (www.communityofjoseph.com).

I believe we need contemplative communities that pray for organisational

leaders. We hold prisoners in prayer, physicians in prayer, statesmen in

prayer, etc., but few are praying for business leaders. Yet business is a

dominant societal institution in developed countries where the majority of the

population spends their waking hours. So I believe we need places of very deep

prayer on behalf of organisational leaders who influence these important

organisations."

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