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spiritual intelligence, we need to understand consciousness. Some

interesting scientific underpinnings are cited for SQ, mainly from

the work of Denis Pare and Rodolfo Llinas. Zohar argues that the

brain waves recently discovered—gamma waves oscillating about 40

times a second—may contain the clues to a kind of hyperthinking

that is the basis of a higher-order SQ.

Author and ex-Fleet Street editor Will Hutton is quite clear

about the role of this kind of intelligence:

I am a very anchored person in a value system. I know who I am. I have

also felt that I stand here and can do no other than my values dictate. I

will happily live with the consequences.

Hilary Cropper is similarly aware of this dimension. She talks of

one of the Indian companies in her FI Group as “a being with a life

of its own, with a distinctly spiritual feel.” She believes that if you

embody spiritual concepts in the way you manage an organization,

you will have greater richness and depth.

The practical message you may want to take from this is a

wake-up call to examine your values and beliefs and how they fit

with your work.

Here are a number of ways of thinking about the values of your current organization:

1 Think of the things that happen on a daily basis that make you really uncomfortable, the

traumas of business life. Think, too, of the elements of your professional life that make you

feel good, proud to be working for the organization.

Use the chart below to help you group these together and start to come up with words that

capture the values that the behaviors you describe exemplify.

THINGS MAKING ME UNCOMFORTABLE VALUES THEY SHOW THINGSI AM PROU DOF VALUES THEY SHOW

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