Do you remember your first (academic) conference visit? In our fast-paced world, we are ushered to quickly establish routines and security. However, there is beauty in observing something for the first time. Before we, as well rush on to becoming seasoned attendees, we would like to celebrate this first-time moment with you in this reflection […]
Management & Leadership
Editorial Note: Spirituality, Management And Society, Issue 7 – Yoga
Dear all, We are delighted to share the 7th issue of OM RISE Magazine with you. For this issue, the theme is Yoga. The popularity of yoga globally was recognized when the United Nations declared 21 June as International Yoga Day. In the current issue we celebrate this day by sharing a collection of articles […]
Natural leadership: The Everest Climber in Everyone (2013)
There is an Everest climber in each one of us. During our life, we get to know about our ‘Everest’ and the ‘climb’. This case study is about Tine Mena, the youngest Everest climber from the North East of India. The case takes us through the stages of development of various qualities, values, vision and […]
Leadership and Authenticity: The Case of Buurtzorg Nederland (2017)
The authors explain the relationship between leadership and yoga in the contributing chapter. Yogais seen as a worldview and a way to enhance virtuous behaviour. So far, leadership has been studied as a style, an attribute, or trait. New models propose it as anactivity. The authors propose leadership as a cognition and a virtue. The […]
What If Business Revisits Pavlov’s Kennel? The Case of Buurtzorg Nederland (2018)
The view that individuals can be controlled through conditioning is predominant in the businessenvironment. However, in recent years, people have started to question this control mechanism. Inthis article, the authors elaborate further on the implications of conditioning to business and presentanother approach to making organisations agile, highly productive and VUCA (volatility, uncertainty,complexity and ambiguity) ready. […]
Editorial Note: Spirituality, Management And Society, Issue 6 – Managing VUCA
Dear all, We are delighted to share the sixth issue of OM RISE Magazine with you. For this issue, the theme is Managing VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity). VUCA can be felt at an individual level as well as in organisations and society at large. Some experience VUCA as crisis and may lose their perspective […]
Understanding and Managing VUCA
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has experienced high levels of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) on the one hand, and on the other hand, a total interconnectedness. The term VUCA was first coined at the Army War College, which is the graduate school for future generals (Johansen, Euchner, 2013). In the management context, […]
Managing VUCA: Gāndhī’s Experimentation
This article examines an interesting question: What lessons can we learn from Gāndhī’s experimental approach to help us cope with COVID-19? Mahātmā Gāndhī, for example, tapped into indigenous sources of knowledge to work for the welfare of society. One of his main approaches to putting his learnings into practice was experimentation or exploration of his […]
The Phenomenon of Entrainment in Managing VUCA
I am confident that we have all experienced the phenomenon of entrainment in daily life. Think about the experiences of ‘being on the same wavelength’, or ‘being in sync’. They typically generate an elevated emotion or feeling. Also physiologically, many of us have witnessed the adjustment of our bodies that occurs when we change time […]
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Event Announcements Conference on Conscious-Based Leadership and Management Dear Readers We hope you are doing well. We warmly invite you to participate in the International Conference on Consciousness-Based Leadership and Management, which will be held on May 21–23, 2021. This virtual/online conference aims to discuss broad-based approaches and proven techniques for promoting a consciousness-based view […]
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