{"id":2603,"date":"2012-01-05T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2024-01-11T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T18:34:12","slug":"what-is-transformational-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/2603-what-is-transformational-leadership","title":{"rendered":"What is Transformational Leadership?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transformational Leadership: Leading in Love and Truth <\/strong>
\nHighlights from an Interview with John Morton, D.S.S. <\/em><\/p>\n

The way I look at the transformational leader, the most dynamic powerful transformational leader, is one who lives in truth — the truth that is full of love, so it\u2019s unconditional loving truth. Truth and love converge. Truth converges with love, and love converges with truth. They become one movement or one experience.<\/p>\n

Ultimately transformational leaders are transforming themselves first. Being true to thyself is one of the great truths. It becomes a mission, like a legacy or a lifetime achievement. How close did you get to the truth? What did you do? Those are powerful questions for understanding leadership as transformational leaders.<\/p>\n

Everybody could answer those questions because everybody is a leader. If we took the words \u201ccreator\u201d and \u201cleader\u201d and transposed them in a conversation, they\u2019re essentially the same word. A creator is a leader. A leader is a creator. I see everyone, every single person, every entity, as a creator. Humans, in this world, are the creators. We have the creatorship in this world as flesh and blood creators.<\/p>\n

In Genesis, in the story of Creation, we are given a kind of a representational or symbolic way of looking at creating. There\u2019s great meaning in looking at the elements and characters in that story. The meaning or the moral of being a human being becomes, \u201cAre you willing to live in your truth?\u201d If you can\u2019t do that as a loving process, then it\u2019s not really true and you better get a better truth, or a higher truth, or something on that order. That process becomes transformational, and it becomes transformational in the way where it\u2019s a great life to live.<\/p>\n

Who lives a great life? The ones who have the greatest lives are not necessarily those who are popular or historically famous. The great transformational leader could be a mother. By the way a mother pours herself into her life and raises her children, we could say she is as much a transformational leader as anybody in history. Yet, she is not on the front page of the newspaper. She may be seen as, \u201cOh, you\u2019re a mother. We have millions of mothers so that\u2019s not newsworthy.\u201d It may become news, however, if somebody is doing it to the highest degree it can be done.<\/p>\n

Consider Mother Theresa and why she became famous. In part, it was because she was given a large financial award for doing spiritually transforming work. She wasn\u2019t a famous person until someone noted what she was doing and rewarded her actions as a fine example of spiritual leadership in today\u2019s world. I don\u2019t think Mother Theresa was seeking to be rich and famous, but in a way her life led to that. Her life and her leadership created great wealth and notoriety. Yet she was often non-conforming to what was expected of her as a nun. She didn\u2019t stay in the convent. Instead, she went out to \u201cthe least of my brethren\u201d because that\u2019s how she was called to serve the Lord. In so doing, Mother Theresa\u2019s life became a very powerful message about what\u2019s important in leadership which is leading from the heart in loving service to the Lord in each one.<\/p>\n

In leadership, there are usually some sorts of mechanisms involved. We might call them systems, formations, methods, formulas, or techniques. I see the mechanisms of this world as here to assist us in moving to the higher state of truth and loving. However, if the systems don\u2019t meet up with truth and love, no matter how fantastic or magnificent they may seem, then they\u2019re not really all that valuable or important.<\/p>\n

For an educational system to support transformation, it must be spiritually inspired or directed. If not, then I say it\u2019s missing the mark. However, it won\u2019t be the only one since there are a lot of people and organizations where their focus is about acquiring material things. They may be really good at it, and they\u2019re on the cover of financial magazines and considered newsworthy. I would ask then, \u201cAre they happy? Are they healthy? Are they somebody you want your children to hang out with?\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019d say, \u201cNo, although I might appreciate if they gave my children a check for a million dollars, but other than that, no.\u201d The point is that just because someone or an organization is materially successful doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re spiritually successful or assisting in the spiritual transformation of others which is what transformational leadership is all about.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s remember that the purpose of Insight Univ<\/a>ersity was identified by John-Roger<\/a>, its Founder and Chancellor as, \u201cInsight University is here to assist us in transforming ourselves into loving so that the greater transformation of the planet to loving will take place.\u201d Insight University\u2019s particular mission then follows as, \u201cEducating heart-based leaders for transformational world service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Educating heart-based leaders is about coming into knowledge. To me, knowledge ultimately is God. The ultimate knowing is what God knows. Can we know what God knows? My experience is that mentally we cannot. However, at some point we can transcend the mind, and that\u2019s in Spirit. So the ultimate transformation is in the Spirit, not in this world. However, we can do things in this world that are aligned with and complementary to Spirit.<\/p>\n

As Jesus said, \u201cWhen you\u2019ve seen me, you\u2019ve seen the Father.\u201d To me, that\u2019s telling the truth of who we are. As transformational leaders, we stop seeing only flesh and blood and start seeing something bigger going on than what appears in this world. Our bodies help facilitate our reaching into the higher state, which is the truth and love that is God.<\/p>\n

The focus upon transforming leadership to greater loving, for ourselves and our world, is the foundation and purpose of what we\u2019re doing through Insight University<\/a>. If what we are doing is not clearly aligned and focused on loving, then we better shift back to the loving because the key in transformational leadership is loving and keeping our focus in the loving.<\/p>\n

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