INDEX
Italic numbers indicate figures or tables.
A
absence, state of, 40
adversaries, 96–98
The Age of Ananda (Sharma), 118
aging of societies, xii
Akash-Ganga, 38
Alexander the Great, 20
ambitious energy, 6, 115, 128–129
ananda (bliss), 34, 115, 118, 129, 149
Antar-Ganga, 38
anticipating change, 51
Appell, Elizabeth, 14
apprentice piece, 25
archetypes, xii, 57, 60, 75, 128, 135–136
complementary and dominant, 92–93, 93, 107–108
encountered on journey, 13, 47, 95–102
four-fold self and, 83–84
of mature leader, 144, 144–145
minor characters, 99–100
simplified, 102–103
ardhanarishwar (Shiva-Shakti), 70, 78
Arjuna, 101
The Art of War (Sun Tzu), 20
asuras (demons), 94–95
The Athena Doctrine (Gerzema and D’Antonio), 10, 114
atma (soul), 25
Atma Shakti, xxi
Aurobindo, Sri, xv, 54, 78, 131, 136
B
Barletta, Marti, 138
Barrett, Colleen, 10
Beautiful, 116
beliefs, coming to grips with, 61
Bend, Not Break (Ping Fu), 30–31
Berry, Thomas, 11
Bhagavad Gita, 151–152
Bhat, Nilima, 78–79, 116, 142, 151
Bhishma (patriarch), 20
The Big Leap (Hendricks), 120
bird wing metaphor, 147–148
birth and rebirth, 13, 14, 55, 62
blended capacities, 8–10, 70, 71
bliss (ananda), 34, 115, 118, 129, 149
blockage of life force, 63
body, relaxed, 36–37
boundaries, 43–44
breath, 37
Buchanan, Leigh, 21
burnout, 117
business, purpose of, xvii
C
Campbell, Joseph, xix, 12, 14, 17, 34, 47, 50, 58, 118, 136
“master of two worlds” concept, 128
“mono-myth,” 146
caring, 30–31
center, 85
CEOs, 70
men, 4
chakras (yogic energy centers), 140
change, xiii–xvi, xxiii, 8, 15, 31–32
childhood, death of, 63, 63–64
child-self (inner child), 75–77, 77, 101, 122–123
healing, 80–81
Chinese/Taoist wisdom, xvii, 25, 70, 72–73
Chitta Shakti, xxi
ChittaSangha (Consciousness Collaborative), 23
choices, 87–88
compassion, 143
conditioning, 51, 128, 133, 156
dialogue with higher self, 122–127
purpose, manifesting higher, 119–121, 120
toward self-mastery and selfless service, 127, 127–129
Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values (Kofman), 30
Conscious Capitalism, xvii–xx, 117
Conscious Leadership, 23, 36, 92, 121, 126, 135. See also Shakti Leadership
consciousness, xiii–xiv, 23–24
testing of, 64–65
crisis-trauma-transformation-gift, 48, 49
cross, 85
cultures, nurturing and life-enhancing, xvii
D
D’Antonio, Michael, 10
death
of old ways, women and, 62, 63
defense systems, 81–82
Descent to the Goddess (Perera), 58
devas (angels), 94–95
dharma (righteous action), 45, 105–106, 114, 117
Dhumavati (the great widow), 62
dilemmas, 87
discomfort, comfort with, 42
discovery, 61
divine self, 71–72
DNA newspaper, 151
Draupadi (goddess), 159
drawing, 125
drives, as power bases, 144–145
Drucker, Peter, 19
Durga (goddess), 79
E
ecological wholeness, 25
ecosystem, 72
ego-shadow, 73–75
Emerald, David, 105
emotional heart, 40
employee engagement levels, xvi
complementary, 98–99
corporate, 57
inductive, 39–40
qi (life energy), 72
energy fields, 103
Enneagram, 115–117
eros (kama), 65, 83, 84, 144, 144
Ensler, Eve, 152
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola, 58, 64
everything journeys, 135–137
purpose of, 51–53
trajectory of, xix, xxii, 50–51, 136–137
evolutionary impulse, 50–53, 51, 63, 63–64
executive presence, 35–36
exercises, 36–38
existential concerns, 113
F
false signals, 52
feminine principle, xviii–xix, 5–9, 25
denial of, xi, 61, 61, 131–132
Fieger, Hank, 36
fight-or-flight survival mode, 40
Firms of Endearment (Sisodia), 117
archetypes encountered on journey, 95–102
archetypes simplified, 102–103
polarities and paradoxes, 87–89
Flynn, James, xiii
“Fool” archetype, 101
Fortune 500 companies, 8
four-fold self, 82–85, 83, 95–96, 144
Frankl, Viktor, 34
freedom/belonging, 61
Freeman, Ed, 29
future-tripping, 40
G
gender relations, 143
girls, influences on, 7–8
“Gita for Women,” 151
global economic crisis, 6–7, 28
goddess, 101
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 21, 116
gravitas, 35
Gray, John, 70
greatness, discovering, 48, 49
H
Harry Potter (Rowling), 14
Harvey, Andrew, 118–119
Hendricks, Katie, 105
Henry VIII, 20
herald, 99–100
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell), 12, 17
heroic journey, xix, xxiii, 12–17, 33, 47–68
archetypes encountered, 95–102
consciousness during, 50–55
of everything, 135–137
five elements, dance of, 56–58
gender differences, 58–60
only way out is in, 55–56
only way out is through, 49, 67
purpose of evolution, 51–53
reconciliation within, 65–66
of Shakti, 134–135
summarized, 48–50
heroine’s journey, 59–64
The Heroine’s Journey (Murdock), 58
heterarchies, 22
hierarchical leadership, 21
higher-self dialogue, 122–127
holy family reunion, 24, 63, 75–79
hospicing, 11–12
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci (Gelb), 73
“Human Cycle,” 136
human resources, 117
I AM – I CAN – I WILL, 113, 126
ideal action, 116
imaginal cells, 64–65
Indian yogic tradition. See yogic tradition
individuation, 25, 74–75, 77, 82
inferiority, slaying dragon of, 61
information access, 22
initiation, 13
inner child, 75, 80–81, 122–123
inside-out, consciousness-based approach, xx
integrity, 27
intelligence, xiii, 50, 92, 135
interference, 103
inter-independence, 107
intuition, 125
invisibility of women, 161–163
IQ tests, xiii
J
Jaworski, Joseph, xxi–xxii, 14
Johnson, Barry, 89
journey. See heroic journey
joy, 142
Julius Caesar, 20
Jung, Carl, 24–25, 73–75, 82, 147
K
kama (relationships), 118, 118
karma, 56
Kempton, Sally, 2, 3, 9, 49–50
Kilbourne, Jean, 7–8
King, Martin Luther, Jr., xvi, 20, 91
Kofman, Fred, 30
kshetras (domains or fields of action), 58
L
Lakshmana, 100–101
Laybourne, Gerry, 115
Lazarus, Shelly, 133–134
leadership
capacity for congruence, 27–28
capacity for flexibility, 27
capacity for wholeness, 24–26
crisis of, xvi–xvii
as purposeful exercise of power, 3
reinventing, xx–xxiii
roots of modern, 20–22
source, getting at, 22–23
style, assessing, 107–112
three essential capacities, 24
traditional models, 21–22. See also congruence; flexibility; wholeness
libido, 65
Life, xx
Lincoln, Abraham, xv, 20, 21, 95
logos (vidya), 47, 66, 83, 84, 144, 144
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 14, 100
love
heroine’s journey, 59–60
manifesting at work, 28–30
M
Mackey, John, 30
Maddox, Chris, 135
Mahishasura (yogic demon), xii, 79, 148
mandala (geometric figure), 140
Mandela, Nelson, 20–21
martial arts, 27
masculine principle, xviii–xix, 8–9
masterpiece, 25
maternal principle, xxi
McIntosh, Steve, 51–52
media portrayals, 7–8
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (Gray), 70
mental confines, 44
metta (loving kindness), 123
midlife crisis, xii–xiii
midwifing, 11–12
militaristic thinking, xx, 20, 21, 132
mini-self, 66
misogyny, 65
Miss Representation (Newsom), 7, 8
mistakes, 45
moksha (liberation and self-realization), 118, 118
money, 2–3
Morissette, Alanis, 138–139
mother and beloved, 63
The Mother (Aurobindo), 144
multiple selves, 24
Myss, Caroline, 135
mythology, new, 145–146
for business, 146–147
mythos (maya), 83, 84, 144, 144
N
9/11 attacks, 84
1989, xii–xiii
nemesis, 96
new equilibrium, 13
nonhuman elements, 139
normalcy, shaken out of, 48
O
one-sided notion of leadership, xi
only way out is in, 55–56
only way out is through, 49, 67
organizational higher-self dialogue, 126–127
outside-in, competency-based approach, xx
P
Pachamama Alliance, 11
panchamahabhuta (five elements), 56–58, 140
paramatma (supreme soul), 25
Parvati (Gauri) (goddess), 79
paternal principle, xxi
peer-to-peer networks, 21–22
Perera, Sylvia Brinton, 58
planetary change, 138–139
Platonic ideals, 116
polarities, 87–89
masculine and feminine, 91–94, 92
political candidates, 7–8
Popcorn, Faith, 138
position/point of view, 90–91
power, xvii
drives as power bases, 144–145
true vs. false, 2–5
prakriti (intelligence), 50
Prana Shakti, xxi
centered, 85
cultivating, 36–40
definitions, 34–36
discomfort, comfort with, 42
even breath, clear mind, and open heart, 37–38
executive, 35–36
five-elements cycle and, 57–58
healthy boundaries, 43–44
losing and regaining, 40–42
mental confines, 44
relaxed body, 36–37
sensitive sonar and energetic induction, 39–40
tapping into greater, 44–45
pro-activists, 11
psyche, 82–83
purpose, xvii, 3, 6–7, 14, 22, 27
of evolution, 51–53
manifesting higher, 119–121, 120
purushartha (object of human pursuit), 117, 118
Q
qi (life energy), 72
R
Ram (character), 100–101
Ramayana, the, 100–101, 145–146
ratnas (jewels), 94
reconciliation within, 65–66
refusal and acceptance, 13
relationships, 59–60
resurrection, 63
reward, 13
ritual, 139–140
road back, the, 13
romantic entanglements, 101–102
Rosin, Hanna, xxiii
S
Sadhana (Everywoman), 151–152
sadhana (spiritual or self-mastery practice), 34
sagar manthan (the churning of the ocean), myth of, 94–95
Saxena, Neela Bhattacharya, 148
scarcity myths, 2–3
seed and soil image, 19
self
accessing higher, 124
accessing inner child, 123–124
dialogue with higher, 122–127
ego, 122
four-fold, 82–85, 83, 95–96, 144
organizational higher-self dialogue, 126–127
selfless service, 127–129
self-mastery, 127–129
self-transcendence, 25
separation, 13
shadow-self, 24–25
Shaich, Ron, 28
definitions, 1
denial of, 131–132
as Divine Mother, 5–6
four bases, 144–145
as infinite source, xviii
as intelligent and conscious, xviii
journey of, 134–135
as power base for conscious capitalism, xvii–xx
primer on, xx–xxi
Shakti’s own journey, 68
Shakti Circles, 151
Shakti Dialogues—Everywoman in Conversation with Her Eternal Self, 151–152
engaging unrealized potential, 51
getting at source, 22–23
as heroic journey, 47–48
leading from Shakti, 30–32
manifesting love at work, 28–30. See also Conscious Leadership
Shakti Speaks, 151
shape-shifter, 101
sharing the elixir, 13, 48, 48, 49
Sharma, Kumar, 118
Sharma, Robin, 49
Sheahan, Casey, 6, 28–29, 70, 114, 121, 128–129
Sheahan, Tara, 28–29
shifting roles, 102
Shiva, xviii, 79, 84, 141, 165
Shurpanakha, 100–101
Simon the Magus, xxi
Sisodia, Raj, 117
Sivananda, Swami, 55
Skea, Brian, 83
social dominance theory, 162
soma, 82–83
sonar, sensitive, 39–40
Sophia Century, 147–148
soul, 25
The Soul of Money (Twist), 2–3
Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation (Jaworski), xxii
space-time dimension, 41
spiritual and mythical teachings, xii
spiritual wholeness, 25
stakeholder integration, xvii
stakeholder theory, 29
Star Wars series, 12
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 49
subsystems, 72
swabhav (innate nature), 114, 116
swadharma (purpose), 27, 114–119, 118. See also purpose
symbolic (mythos) realm, 47
symbols, 47
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership (Jaworski), xxi–xxii
T
taking a stand, 91
temptress, 101–102
Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy (Beebe), 84
testers, 100–101
thanatos (mara, the death drive), 54, 65, 83, 84, 144, 144
third person story, 126
threshold guardians, 100
Tibetan Buddhism, 100
timeless wisdom, xii
Transactional Analysis, 75
transformation, 48, 49, 51, 61
transitioning from old to new, 11–12
tricksters, 100–101
True, 116
truth-object/touchstone, 141, 142
turning point, 49
Twist, Lynne, 2–3, 11–12, 23, 90–91, 147
U
Uloopi (character), 101
unconscious roles, 104
unfamiliar world, coming to grips with, 48
uniqueness, 35
upper limit problem, 44
US Senate, 8
V
“Vagina Monologues” (Ensler), 152
vesica piscis symbol, 69
vision, 91
Vogler, Christopher, 13
vulnerability, 60, 151, 156–159
W
Wall Street, 6–7
Western view of wholeness, 73–75
“Whole Man – Whole Woman” circles, 143
Taoist view, 72–73
three views, 71–75
Western view, 73–75
yogic view, 71–72
The Wild Woman Project, 135
The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 115–116
womb, collective, 140
women
approach to leadership, xxii
college degrees, xiii
falsehoods about, 61
invisibility of, 161–163
media portrayals, 7–8
true power and, 4
Women Who Run with the Wolves (Estes), 58
Women’s Circle, 151
women’s circles, 139–143, 161–162
worst fear/shadow, facing, 48
Y
yin and yang, 25, 70, 71, 72–73
yogic tradition, xviii, xx–xxi, 54–55
wholeness, view of, 71–72
Z
Zone of Genius, 120