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International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Abstract

Good morning, everybody. I'm as happy as you are to be at this conference again. I think it's my favorite conference. My second favorite is the conference that Peter Senge runs, every November or December, the Soul Conference or the Systems Theory Conference. What's nice about both of these conferences is that they are more than conferences, they've built a community around them and you see old friends and there's a great spirit of community at the conferences, and that makes them both very special. And the theme of servant-leadership brings out the nicest people. I'm going to talk this morning about servant-leadership and spiritual capital. I think that servant-leadership is a very profound and transformative idea, and you must agree with me or you wouldn't be here. But I think it could be more. I think it is the heart of what could be a whole overarching, all-embracing new philosophy of organizations, and particularly business, a philosophy that could help us do what has to be done, which is to reinvent capitalism. Capitalism and servant-leadership just don't mix-capitalism as we know it. And yet capitalism is a very, very powerful economic system, and we all know that. So I want to tum capitalism on its head today, still calling it capitalism, but giving it a new philosophy to live by. And I call this new philosophy spiritual capital. And I hope to make it clear to you as I talk this morning what that's all about.

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