Innovation of Management in a Crisis: The Spiritual Power of Organizations

In Chap. 5, Paul de Blot uses the term Business Spirituality and describes it as the operationalization of the corporate soul, proceeding on three interrelated levels. The main purpose of a company is both the overall quality and the quality of the product or the service. This is a professional approach with an optimal effect that can be measured quantitatively. It is the level of doing that is focused on making profit. According to him, the physical level of doing does not provide enough energy for doing great things and trying to make this finite energy infinite leads to stress and burnout. He tells us that our source of unlimited energy resources is found on a deeper level of consciousness, the level of being. This inner source of spiritual energy gives rise to the idealism and inspiration of our vocation. Company vocation is the collective dream of the mission. This is also a spiritual learning process. Spiritual energy gives us joy and happiness and helps us derive a sense of meaning from our work. So it is Pneuma, on the level of being, that is the source of energy for the level of doing; from Pneuma to Profit. The interaction between Pneuma and Profit, being and doing, is an energy exchange on two levels. It is a learning process on the cosmic level of Planet; an exchange of cosmic energy between the material, earth plane, and sky or cosmic, spiritual planes. It provides learning through cooperation and friendship by People. Business Spirituality is the overall integration of the entire web of life, including the four P’s of Profit, Planet, People, and Pneuma.