The Healing Leader Creating Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Organizations and Communities

1. THE HEALING LEADER
Creating Happy, Healthy and Prosperous
Organizations and Communities
FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business &
Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism
Co-founder & Chairman Emeritus, Conscious Capitalism Inc.
@RajSisodiaCCRaj Sisodia

2. Leadership matters

3. Only three things happen naturally in organizations:
friction, confusion and underperformance.
Everything else requires leadership.
Peter Drucker

4. Better Leaders

Better World
David Dotlich

5. Why Become a Leader?
Motivation
Matters

6. “Leaders are stewards of the lives entrusted to them.
The way we lead profoundly impacts the way people live.”

7. Everyone is Someone’s Precious Child

8. What Do Great Leaders Have in Common?

10. “We must be
the change we
wish to see in
the world.”

11. Strength
Enthusiasm
Long-term Orientation
Flexibility
Love and Care
Emotional Intelligence
Systems Intelligence
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S Spiritual Intelligence
Qualities of
Conscious
Leaders

13. JOHN MACKEY LETTER TO WHOLE FOODS TEAM MEMBERS
November 2006
To All Team Members,
The tremendous success of Whole Foods Market has provided me with far more money than I ever dreamed I would have, and
far more than is necessary for either my financial security or my personal happiness. I continue to work for Whole Foods not
because of the money I can make, but because of the pleasure I get from leading such a great company, and the ongoing
passion I have to help make the world a better place, which Whole Foods Market is continuing to do.
I am now 53 years old and I have reached a place in my life where I no longer want to work for money, but simply for the joy of
the work itself and to better answer the call to service that I feel so clearly in my own heart.
Beginning January I, 2007, my salary will be reduced to $1 per year and I will no longer take any other cash compensation at all. I
will continue to receive the same benefits that all other team members receive, including the food discount card and health
insurance. The intention of the Board of Directors is for Whole Foods Market to donate all of the future stock options I would
be eligible to receive to our two company foundations: the Whole Planet Foundation and the Animal Compassion Foundation.
One other important item to communicate to you is, in light of my decision to forego any future additional cash compensation,
our Board of Directors has decided that Whole Foods Market will contribute $100,000 annually to a new Global Team Member
Emergency Fund. This money will be distributed to team members throughout the Company based on need when disasters
occur (such as Hurricane Katrina last year).
With much love,
John

14. “In the military, they give medals to those who are willing
to sacrifice themselves so that others may gain.
In business, we give bonuses to those who are willing to
sacrifice others so that they may gain.”

15. “When we as leaders get into the bad habit of thinking that
other people are there to support our success, we’re not
actually leaders, we are tyrants.
Dee Hock
Only when we go through the emotional, psychological and
spiritual transformation to realize our role is to serve others,
do we deserve to be called a leader.”

16. Creating Healing Organizations
Leaders set the tone

17. We have an epidemic of silent suffering

18. Not everything that is
faced can be changed. But
nothing can be changed
until it is faced.
James Baldwin

19. We need to heal ourselves, our families and our communities
We need to heal our companies and our countries
We need to heal our planet and all the life on it
We need to heal the past, present and future

20. All great leaders have
had one characteristic
in common: the
willingness to confront
unequivocally the
major anxiety of
people in their time.
John Kenneth Galbraith

21. The macrocosm is a reflection
of the microcosm

22. “How do civilized human
beings participate in
destructive, inhumane acts?
How is genocide implemented
so systematically, so
efficiently? How do the
perpetrators… live with
themselves?”
Obedience to Authority
http://tinyurl.com/kzlas86
“They hesitate, sigh, tremble & groan,
but advance to the last switch because
they were politely told to do so.”
Not one out of 780 participants got up
to look in the other room.
The Milgram Experiments

23. “The results are terrifying and depressing. They suggest that
the kind of character produced by American society can’t be
counted on to insulate its citizens from brutality and
inhumane treatment in response to a malevolent authority.”

24. “The power of the situation can overwhelm personal power…
People don’t have the resources to resist authority.”
The Agentic State
http://tinyurl.com/ltf7rdv

25. “Human beings are selfless, caring, sharing, trusting,
community-building, friendly – and at the same time, the
reverse of all these virtues.” Muhammad Yunus
“We are so close to light and dark - right on the razor's edge.”
Pete Holmes

26. The Power of Healing Leadership

27. Greyston Bakery
“We don’t hire people to bake
brownies. We bake brownies
to hire people.” “If not for Greyston, I would be
dead or back in jail.” Dion Drew

28. The Parable of the Pothole

29. Appletree Answers
“I felt a deep sense of shame.” CEO John Ratliff

30. RAM Construction
“The Balanced Transaction”

31. H-E-B and Hurricane Harvey

32. Jabian Consulting
Children of employees are stakeholders too

33. Power Home Remodeling
The Expectation Shattering Company
Fortune’s #1
workplace for
millennials
“I came out to
my coworkers
before I came
out to friends
and family”

34. “Our prime purpose in
this life is to help others.
If you can't help them, at
least don't hurt them.”

35. “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?
Write day and night like you’re running out of time?
Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time”
(from Hamilton)
The Fierce Urgency of Now

36. Take care of the people
They will take care of the business

38. WWW.CONSCIOUSCAPITALISM.ORG
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www.RajSisodia.com