There are contemplative cards for almost every aspect of life Tarot Cards, Medicine Cards, Angel Cards and more but none for business. Thankfully, Dr. Lance Secretan saw this need and created Spirit@Work Cards to fill the void. Since their inception, people have found many applications for them in corporations and organizations of all kinds. They are now widely used for setting the tone of meetings, to provide inspiration during the workday, and as personal gifts of friendship and spirit. Spirit@Work Cards is a boxed set which includes a book and two sets of 77 illustrated cards containing key words and phrases that form the essential components of Higher Ground Leadership®. They are all words, such as authenticity, courage, empathy, humility, integrity, legacy, purpose, respect, service, and trust, which are the words that are lived by inspiring leaders. Their purpose is to help you invite spirit into your work and life. There are two sets of cards a large set for regular use, and a much smaller set for traveling. Each card is decorated with a unique design and original artwork by David Rankine, featuring a different word and art for every card. The velvet-covered book contains companion text for each of the 77 words, and a verse by Marie Knapp which can serve as a guide for using the Spirit@Work Cards. These cards can be used in many ways. For example, they are an excellent way to initiate inspired introductions during team building retreats and workshops. Or, use them during everyday meetings during a challenging conversation about budgets or the strategic plan, when nerves are being strained and the energy is tense. Meeting facilitators can periodically take a time-out and ask someone to select a Spirit@Work® Card and then invite the group to discuss what the word means and how it informs the current discussion. The tone of the dialogue immediately and always transforms.

Spirit@Work Cards; Bringing Spirit and Values to Work

Lance H.K. Secretan

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The Secretan Center, Inc.

Dr. Lance Secretan has a radical idea. He believes people are yearning for spirit and values at work, and that the principal role of leaders is to build great organizations to meet that need. In Reclaiming Higher Ground, Secretan describes a model used by visionary leaders who are creating the inspired organization of the future. For 15 years we have been urging employees to provide greater quality and service while we have been downsizing, restructuring and re-engineering them. The result has been a productivity-fueled boom for corporate North America. But now we have hit a wall. There is little room left to continue doing more with less and employees are reassessing their contract with life and work. So what's next? The future belongs to visionaries who create organizations that: 1. Inspire the soul by honoring and celebrating people 2. Ask questions more often than we offer answers Secretan has a reality-tested vision of how to transform organizations. He will show you how to build what he has termed a "sanctuary," based on restoring spirit and values at work, asking questions instead of always having ready answers and recognizing that the personality has limits and that inspirational leaders connect with the Soul: Reclaiming Higher Ground will stir your heart like never before as you learn you how to: * Inspire others with breakthrough ideas that go beyond conventional management theory * Move people far more deeply than we tend to in modern organizations * Restore and build individual self-esteem and passion * Introduce insights that can be translated and applied in a practical way, inspiring people to unusual heights The book, together with resources found on this website, offers a comprehensive system for raising the level of inspiration in any organization

Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations that Inspire the Soul

Business & Money

Secretan, Lance

Management & Leadership

In these fast and furious times, we all seem to be searching for greater meaning in our lives. We're fed up with credit cards and major debt, houses and vehicles we can't afford, gloomy economic forecasts and political uncertainty. A yearning for simplicity, contentment and substance is replacing the quest for status and material gain. Suddenly everyone is talking about values, love and peace of mind--in the workplace, at home, and in all of our relationships. Issues Dr. Lance Secretan has been talking about all along. Secretan, author of the international bestseller The Way of the Tiger, and 15 other leadership titles, has given us a great gift in Living the Moment. It is a lavishly produced book, with stunning illustrations, and a touching, meaningful story. Its central characters are Hawk and Eagle, Native North Americans who embark on a Vision Quest that exposes them to the fundamental truths of their lives. Along the way they learn many lessons, the greatest one being that they must "live the moment". If we treat each moment as a privilege, a sacred sense of belonging and fulfillment will envelop us. In the tale of Hawk and Eagle, the brothers discover they often viewed acquisition as an end. Secretan has often used parables and fables to convey his message, and this ancient method has proved to be both enlightening and entertaining. Living the Moment is a sacred journey, not only for Hawk and Eagle, but for all of us who are ready to change our attitudes and live a simpler life, based on spiritual rather than material values. Included with the book is an audio version of the story performed by Theater and Company with original music and narration by Secretan. The book, together with resources found on this website, offers a comprehensive system for raising the level of inspiration in any organization.

Living the Moment: A Sacred Journey (Gift Set Edition)

ONE is about the journey we have traveled from oneness to separateness. It is the journey from a conscious awareness that we are all part of one story, one planet, and one cosmic system, to our current belief that everything and all of us are separate. Now, more than any other time in our history, we are in need of inspired leadership. This new vision of life and leadership can be ours when we return to oneness. In Part 1, "Myth, Mystery and Magic", Dr. Lance Secretan presents an incisive history of our journey, describing how we came to think in compartmentalized ways--and how we can think again as one, and find a new meaning in work and leadership. Secretan describes the reality of oneness by pointing out whenever we suffer pain or sadness it is because we have separated from what or whom we love. All our human trials can be explained and resolved through this awareness. Secretan uses many inspiring examples to advance his theory that there are never actions without consequences, because we are one. If I throw my pop can out of my car window, I may think that this is no longer part of my world because I have moved on--but I would be wrong. If millions of others do the same, rivers will become polluted and my drinking water will be at risk. If we bull-doze suppliers to provide more services and higher quality at lower prices and, by doing so, eventually drive them out of business, we will both lose because suppliers and customers are one. However, realizing that we must think, feel and act with oneness is the easy part. Part 2, "The CASTLE Principles," explains how to accomplish living in oneness. CASTLE is an acronym formed of the first letters of six concepts--Courage, Authenticity, Service, Truthfulness, Love and Effectiveness--The CASTLE® Principles. Like all fundamental concepts, these are simple ideas--well known to us all. The new part is living them more than talking about them. When fully lived, these principles are profoundly transformative and inspiring. There is nothing new to learn here--no great theory, breakthrough or equation. The CASTLE® Principles are concepts that at some stage in our lives have been fully lived at least once. But, for many, have been lost, and now we yearn to reclaim them. It is through living the CASTLE® Principles that we inspire others and therefore make the world more inspiring and whole--the return to oneness for which we all yearn. This is how greatness is achieved.

One: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership

Economics

The Spark, the Flame, and the Torch is Lance Secretan's masterwork, representing 35 years of intellectual property which he calls Higher Ground Leadership® developed through his research, client engagements, coaching and teaching experience. He has integrated his philosophy into a unified theory of inspired leadership. It is broad, effective, and extraordinarily inspiring, offering a comprehensive approach to being an inspiring person and therefore an inspiring and transformational leader. In this brilliant work readers are presented with radical ideas about why organizations continue to labor with ineffective methods that achieve ineffective results, and how to replace these methods with new thinking. He invites us to rethink: 1) the role of modern organizations 2) our personal contribution as leaders 3) the importance of meaning and fulfillment systems of performance management 4) the art of coaching 5) future visioning 6) building stronger personal relationships and teams 7) our definitions of leadership, and how to inspire more than motivate In his trademark style, Secretan combines case studies, experiences and clear examples from real people with whom he has consulted in world-class organizations and weaves them into simple, easily implementable concepts for inspiring individuals, teams, organizations or countries as well as friends and family. The book, together with the many free links on this website, offers a comprehensive system for raising the level of inspiration in any organization.

The Spark, the Flame, and the Torch:Inspire Self. Inspire Others. Inspire the World.

Biography & History

Literature and history are filled with epic, romantic love stories Antony and Cleopatra, Napoleon and Josephine, Lancelot and Guinevere, Romeo and Juliet, Orpheus and Eurydice but who has experienced or witnessed a real-life love story? As François de La Rochefoucauld has written, True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen . It is exceptionally rare, and A Love Story is a gorgeously designed book bursting with passion that describes a remarkable union of two souls, whose single powerful flame inspired everyone they touched. It is a radiant source of inspiration that describes how two lovers met and inspired each other forever. The story is told through a rich tapestry of luscious, award-winning poetry and anecdote. If everyone lived their lives this way, the divorce courts would be empty and world peace would prevail. A unique gift book for lovers.

A Love Story: An Intensely Personal Memoir

In The Bellwether Effect, Dr. Secretan first proposes a theory that explains how and why leaders are attracted to, and seduced by, trendy ideas, and the process by which these ideas then become mainstream. He calls the originators of these trends, bellwethers, hence the book's title. He then goes on to describe eight examples of counterproductive business practices, among them, fear-based management, motivation, separateness and silos, employee engagement surveys, performance appraisals, salary grades and pay scales, mission, vision, and values statements, and the use of war as a metaphor for business. In each case, Dr. Secretan proposes a novel and inspiring alternative that could lead to transformation and an inspiring culture. We have lost our passion for corporate life. During Lance Secretan's presentations to audiences, he often asks them this question: What percentage of the population do you think would leave the corporate world and pursue different interests if they had a completely free hand? Like an auction, he starts at 50% and the audience will typically raise the offer until they settle at an estimate of something more than 80%. Why is this a tragedy? Because, apart from the human anguish and suffering it causes, we live in a capitalist society, one of whose main engines (besides the church and government) is commerce, and if we botch this critical source of livelihood and exchange, we risk losing everything. So, this is not an inconsequential issue-and it is time to reset our beliefs about what really matters in corporate life. If you have ever wondered, Why are we doing this? or Is there a better way to do this?, or, How can we create a more inspiring corporate culture?, then this is the book for you, because it offers crisp, insightful ways to propel organizations from engaged to inspired.

The Bellwether Effect: Stop Following. Start inspiring

Reawakening the Human Spirit

Lance H. Secretan

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