| The Financial Crisis Missing a Connection to The Organizational Spirit |
| Written by Mandy Ziegler | |
| Sunday, 09 August 2009 | |
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Organizations are created to fulfill a purpose. Corporations, small businesses, churches, colleges, social clubs and even the family are organizations invented for a purpose. We become involved in organizations for many reasons. Some are work related, some educate us, and some are for socializing. The reasons are endless. Each is directed by expectations and roles within the objectives of the organization. We are all members of organizations and we cannot be without them.
Organizations are created to fulfill a purpose. Corporations, small businesses, churches, colleges, social clubs and even the family are organizations invented for a purpose. We become involved in organizations for many reasons. Some are work related, some educate us, and some are for socializing. The reasons are endless. Each is directed by expectations and roles within the objectives of the organization. We are all members of organizations and we cannot be without them. When misfortunes happen in our lives, and the goals of the organizations to which we belong can no longer support us, our lives can become disoriented. For example, the expectations and roles of our financial and investment institutions and our mortgage companies collapsed causing an economical crisis. The result was unemployment, foreclosures, and loss of retirement funds. People experienced fear, depression, anger and loneliness. It also caused a breakdown of roles in the family for many causing dysfunction and resulting in pain, anger and sometimes violence. We have tried all sorts of solutions. Many of us find ourselves looking for new groups and organizations to help solve our problems. Self help books, religious institutions, and counseling industries have become more important to us since the crisis began. We also search ourselves for solutions to our problems, "What can I change to make my life better?" More often than not, we cannot find an immediate solution that our society needs. A large number of us want, or demand, that those organizations that have let us down change the way they do things financially. The banks, the SEC, our mortgage companies, Wall Street and our government should be held accountable. We want justice for the deceptive and greedy behavior of those who are members of these organizations. The amazing thing is that there appears to be no real desire of the people who work there to change the blatantly unethical behavior from inside. Most reforms come from outside the organizational framework, if they change at all. There are individuals that want to change the system from within. They try to make behavioral changes on the inside, as opposed to outside intervention. She seeks to change mission statements and objectives to something more humanly oriented. Her goal is to bring spirit into the core of the organization so we can communicate in a collective and mindful way so all can contribute toward a common purpose. The organizational spirit is one of nine universal spiritual archetypes. Her specific calling is to transform the nature of our organizational framework. She focuses on breaking down internal barriers. New space can then be created allowing the human spirit to be expressed. New purposes, human purposes, transform the system. The core cause of today's financial crisis is not the banks or the mortgage brokers. Financial experts point to these two institutions too quickly. Indeed, the immoral actions of these institutions heightened and accelerated the economic downturn. Despite our investigations and criminal proceedings against their fraudulent practices, we must look within to find a true solution to the cause of the crisis. The organizational spirit does not accept the habits and practices of the established structure. She seeks to get beneath and beyond the way things are to the purposes of being fully human, not to deny her spirit, but to listen to it. She poses questions like, "Why? Who said so? Where does that come from? What is that all about?" Most of our modern organizations do not speak to our fully human possibility and the integration with our spirit. Organizational life is too embedded in our social biography. Our organizations, educational institutions, military apparatus, religious groups all encompass so much of society's institutional life and so little of the possibilities to which our human spirit calls us to do and to be. But keep in mind that organizations were invented to maintain a purpose. We are not an unmindful society. We can be mindful about our collective behavior. We can and do make choices. If our organizations do not support us, we can change them, dispose of them or invent new ones. The Article Author: Professional speaker and editor, Mandy Ziegler, presents the award winning spiritual self-help book When Your Spirit Calls - In Search of Your Spiritual Voice, by Warren Ziegler. Do you utilize your organizational spirit? Bring the organizational spirit into your life or nine unique spiritual archetypes. Learn what your spirit is and why you should bring it back into your life, your work, and your relationships. |
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