Interiority Powered: How to Use Your Inner Energies at Work - Paperback

by Hugh Leonard (Author)

Is the Age of Interiority Upon Us? Interiority is an ancient word. As understood by St. Augustine (353-430 AD), Interiority is the exercise of coming to know oneself and God. St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) referred to it as the dynamic structure of human intelligence, reflected in the desire to know all there is to know. Interiority in this book is about powerful inner resources that drive productivity and produce wholeness in everyone through their work. Our society is in deep trouble. People are disillusioned and lack direction. Institutions have lost credibility. Trumpeted solutions sound empty. Seventy-one percent (71%) of workers in the U.S. are disengaged from their work to some degree (Gallup, Q12 Survey). We need people with strengths fueled from within. People working with energies of Interiority can change themselves. This is the basis of all influence for change in the workplace, society, and everything. You are invited on a journey to influence how excellent work is achieved, and emergent wholeness grows in our world, and in us.

Author Biography

Author Hugh Leonard is a workplace ethics and human development expert. He spent 27 years as a member of a religious order of Catholic priests, 17 of which were as a missionary in Japan where he founded and directed an industrial counseling non-profit for management development, high-performance teamwork, and effective collaboration between multiple cultures in the workplace. He wrote five books in Japanese on interpersonal communications. He returned to the US to obtain his advanced degrees, and his certification as an executive coach. He has conducted coaching sessions, training courses and workshops for international corporations for the past 25 years from his base in Los Angeles, CA. He currently focuses his activities on Japan-related business, spiritual direction, teaching Business Ethics at a university, and Interiority at work. Book Summary The word Interiority dates from the 4th Century. St. Augustine referred to it in The Confessions as inner energy that empowers us to become the person we are called to be so we accomplish wholeness. Leonard applies this concept to our daily work. He writes that workers today operate on outdated assumptions about work, workplaces and organizations. The book, and the workshops upon which it is based, provide tools for workers to become aware that they are a center of power. By exercising that power, balance can be created between corporate interests, ordinary workers, and the community at large. The majority of business books focus on improvement of business so profits increase, Interiority Powered focuses on development of the whole person as he/she engages with their tasks.