Spiritual Leadership

O ne of the greatest challenges facingleaders today is the need to develop new business models that accentuate ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustain-ability and social responsibility without sacrificing profitability, revenue growth, and other indicators of financial perfor-mance. This article seeks to address top man-agers ’ need to simultaneously maximize the so-called triple bottom line, or ‘‘People, Pla-net, Profit.’ ’ In doing so, we draw from the emerging fields of workplace spirituality, spiritual leadership, and conscious capital-ism. Research conducted with Interstate Bat-tery System of America, Inc. (Interstate Batteries) is offered as a case study of a company that may serve as a role model for spiritual leadership. We also present a general process for maximizing the triple bottom line through the development of the motivation and leadership required to simultaneously optimize employee well-being, social responsibility, organizational commitment, and financial performance