Why is it that organizational leadership requires more spiritual attunement than ever before? You didn't sign up to be a pastor for your employees--or did you? Check out this lightly adapted excerpt from my new book Why Spiritual Capital Matters. https://rb.gy/giogeo

What do you need most in your organizational leadership? This quick excerpt from my newly published book suggests that you don't so much need the economic capital that so preoccupies your sleepless hours as you do the spiritual capital that enables you to see latent resources in your workplace community.

It's simply inadequate for white organizations--companies, nonprofits, churches--to "make a place at the table" for their counterparts of color, say faith-based leaders Darryl and Stephanie Answer, if the table is broken. The good news is that, with a reimagined table, sharing a meal can be a great good thing for org leaders and minority-led associations. The result isn't just affiliation; it's liberation.

How do you do organizational leadership when the world keeps on coming to an end? I stole that phrase about the world and its endings from Carlo Rotella, this week's guest on the pod. But I'm hoping that my theft pulls you into a conversation about how race and class complicate our organizational projects--in companies, churches, and nonprofits--to engage our neighborhoods with political wisdom.

A ten-minute mulling over James Baldwin's speech "Notes on a Hypothetical Novel" and its bearing on organizational life and leadership. Mostly, I'm thinking about the ways that predominantly white organizations try (as Baldwin would say) to be something they are not.

You seek positive behavioral change in your workplace and its community. But how do you pursue that--without becoming a surveillant overlord? Amrita Kulkarni and Jason Judy show how design research connects behavior to deeply held values and helps you and your organization be the neighborhood contributors you aspire to be.

Your workplace community wants to be a part of the pursuit of racial equity in your broader community, right? But before that can happen, says My'Kal Lofton, another conversation has to happen first.

Learning to be un-blind. That's how a friend of mine, DeAmon Harges of Indianapolis, put it to me recently. Learning to be unblind is a huge challenge of org leadership, especially when it comes to predominantly white institutions and organizations trying to acknowledge and activate hidden resources in their communities and neighborhoods. This week, Cote Soerens and Kyhree Smith of Cultivate South Park in Seattle help us see what we might otherwise miss in our own backyard.

You have a great deal to do just to solve problems within your organization, right? Too much to ever pay too much attention to the problems outside, right? But Seana Murphy has suggestions for ways you might rethink your relation to your place by changing your questions. Photo credit: https://www.downtownindy.org/blog/drink-culture-podcast-deamon-harges-and-seana-murphy-the-learning-tree/

Safronia Perry's story exemplifies the importance of place for organizational identity and mission. The park where her organization does its work is located on an African American cemetery effaced by white citizens during the 1970s. Safronia has not only helped seek reparations for this desecration, but has launched a coalition of Black-owned businesses to rebuild neighborhood wealth.