The true test of a CEO leader is your own spiritual intelligence, otherwise you are not a leader in the Digital 4.0 World which is as liquid as water.

The opening chart of this article states that "Leading is raising the personnel spirit but not a triumphant walk of his/her Majesty EGO of a  "leader" ".  It is from Ronald Stern. Ronald C.Stern was a personal friend of Peter Drucker.  Ronald is Swiss and is one of the few references in the world ( the other one is Henry Mintzberg) who understands very well the difference between Leadership and Management

Leadership is HORIZONTAL because a Leader must be a "primus inter pares" - Management is VERTICAL because it works through hierarchy (Ronald C.Stern)

which he further complements with his

Managing is doing things right; Leading is doing the right things. Managing is a CRAFT. Leading is an ART. (Ronald C. Stern)

These quotes are indeed similar to Mintzberg′s ideas as you can see here

At the centre of Ronald′s success is his concept of Spiritual Intelligence

if you read carefully all of Ronald′s brilliant statements in LInkedIN you will see that gurus such as Robin Sharma

or John Maxwell

come to say the same.  The other day reading one of Maxwell′s most important books (perhaps the most important that I will reveal in due course) he did recommend to read Spiritual Leadership so I did my research

a) Spiritual Intelligence per Ronald

b) Spiritual Leadership per John

and asked Ronald again for advice, he of course recommended a).  What follows below is an astonishing research which further backs Ronald up as well as leaves CEOs speechless

Geraldine Bown on Spiritual Intelligence, CEOs and Corporations

Most people are unaware that since May 2008 youtube.com is the second largest engine of the world after its parent google.com.  I youtube as much as I google.  Therefore I youtubed on spiritual intelligence to benchmark Ronald′s solid advice and found this wonderful video

"It is 20 years since Daniel Goleman brought Emotional Intelligence to our attention. At the time he was laughed at - now it's main stream. But there is a level beyond Emotional Intelligence and that is Spiritual Intelligence. The SQ21 tool identifies 21 skills relating to SQ each one with 5 levels of competence. In this short presentation Geraldine outlines this approach to Spiritual Intelligence and why it is needed."

Just what I read was 100% in line with Ronald′s assessment.  I watched the video not expecting much because I thought I knew it all.  How wrong I was because Geraldine Bown teaches CEOs Corporations and everybody great lessons

Let us list a few of the excellent points from Geraldine explained with our own words and inputs

1. Spirituality is not the same religion.  People and corporations get confused and are scared/fearful with this

2. Spirituality is an individual journey from our ego to our best self.

3. The journey is from our ego to our higher consciousness.

4. Spirituality is part of a natural progression and by the way we are no longer in the Industrial Age or Information Age but in the Wisdom Age.

5. It is not about implying you are spiritual and no one else is but to look very internally your organizations to rescue and lift up all the parts of our team values (Physical. Mental, Spiritual)

6. Corporations and their CEOs get it wrong by putting focus on leadership programmes with "concepts" such as marketing, tools, strategy when the key issue is the spirit as Ronald Stern always said.  I would further add that Harvard Business Review already explained why Marketing no longer exists both in 2012 and 2015. They all (CEOs/Corporations) fail to look deepen into themselves, it is clear

 Most of the points raised by Geraldine can be summarized by these excellent inputs from 

Albert Einstein

or Peter Drucker

 

 

 

 

Napoleon Hill also explains this in the same direction as Geraldine

Honesty is a spiritual quality that cannot be evaluated in terms of money There are many practical reasons to practice honesty.  It requires far less effort to be truthful than to be deceitful, and in the long term the risks are fewer and the rewards greater.  But in today′s complex society, the boundaries of acceptable behaviour have been blurred until they are sometimes indistinguishable.  Laws and codes of ethics establish minimum standards of behaviour.  Make sure you establish standards for yourself that exceed such minimums, a standard below which you will not allow yourself to fall, regardless of what others may do or say.  Your own set of standards will allow you to decide quickly and easily upon an appropriate course of action when faced with a difficult problem. (Napoleon Hill)

 

and takes a step further with this explanation

 

Friendly cooperation always pays off because this sort of teamwork creates a positive mental attitude, which does not recognize obstacles.  In any organized endeavor, obstacles are going to occur. Sometimes they appear in the form of technical problems; sometimes they are disputes between members of the team over which course is best to follow. If you have set an example of initiative and open communication, you will find that your team has the mental and spiritual resources to overcome these kinds of struggles. A group of people who trust their leader and one another don’t waste energy jockeying for prestige. They know that they will all benefit from a solution, and they are motivated to find it by sharing the knowledge and ideas. From these many parts a skilled leader can create the necessary solution, but only if a spirit of friendliness and honesty prevails. (Napoleon Hill)

The ultimate result of not following the above is this picture that Ronald Stern shares in his LInkedIn network wall very regularly

believe it or not many CEOs do not have these 10 must have principles

Many do fail on being time managers (i.e. no planning beforehand for the week and excessive unnecessary meetings) and many fail on all the above including being coachable. A leader is a coach and a coach is a leader. If a CEO fails to be coachable he/she is not a leader by any standards.

Michele Blood and Bob Proctor

I would personally place Bob Proctor as the top leadership guru on the use of the mind worldwide

 I knew of him for over a decade and a list of leadership books included Steve Siebold in 2010 who referenced him often in his 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class.  Yet until 2015 I did not full engage on reading and listening to Proctor regularly.  He is different to Sharma Robbins or Maxwell.  This is what life is

 

 

 

 

 

which for our purposes means that Leaders are Readers and we are meant to read 1 hour daily.  I happened to read the Bob Proctor′s and Michele Blod′s Become a Magnet to Money Through the Sea of Unlimited Consciousness.  What captivated me was not Bob′s first part (brilliant as always) but Michele Blood′s second half of the book

It will shock you to read her explanations in dozens of pages.  And you will find that concepts such as 

Divine Awareness

Divine Birth Right

Divine Heritage

are indeed very well explained in the same way as Geraldine does in the video.  They have nothing to do with religion in as much Michele sets 5 different Levels

Level I The human experience

Level II I am more than my body

Level III Our Soul Connection

Level IV Becoming Mermaid/Man

Level V I am the Sea

I would warn you not to make the mistake that these levels are just theory.  They are not.  They are 100% what Geraldine explains.  I was delighted to read in Level III that only when we connect our soul with our intellect is when get it right.  Otherwise we are in the hands of our ego even though we think we are right but we are not.  This is what happens daily at Corporations and with the CEOs the first ones to be blamed.  The thoughts are ego in as much they do not come from the soul. Very true.

 These leadership quotes from St. Francis of Assisi are a must have and must read and apply daily. I had them from various viral sources but only when I reached level V of Michele′s dissertation I understood it because she lists quite a large list of names at level 5 (i.e. Saint Teresa of Avila) because they already made the journey explained by Geraldine above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now after doing all my research this wonderful advice from Ronald

makes total sense as you can see in this image from www.sqi.co whose trainer Richard Griffiths has this wonderful article

 

In the Age of Wisdom I recommend every CEO to start the journey NOW

To your success

Jorge Zuazola CEO & Founder

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