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Doing the Right Thing and Doing Things Right: Mindful, Responsible and Purposeful Leadership

Doing the Right Thing and Doing Things Right: Mindful, Responsible and Purposeful Leadership

by Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership | Apr 19, 2024 | Lalith Gunaratne CET, MSc

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) serves as a way of aligning social and environmental concerns with business strategy. It’s doing the right thing by positively influencing society while also improving brand reputation. These, obviously, help profitability. But...

Managing Chaordic Organizations Mindfully with Purposeful Leadership

by Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership | Apr 17, 2023 | Lalith Gunaratne CET, MSc

“An organization’s success has enormously more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them, than with assets, expertise, operating ability, or management competence,” says Dee Hock, the founder of the VISA credit card for...

Stress gets in the way of Good Leadership

by Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership | Aug 12, 2022 | Lalith Gunaratne CET, MSc

Awareness of stress and how it manifests in the mind and body is crucial for organizational leaders. Ignoring it can lead to diminishing returns both mentally and physically. Stressed, leaders can lose mental focus and become ill-tempered leading to tension in the...

Spirituality and Purposeful Leadership

by Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership | Apr 14, 2022 | Lalith Gunaratne CET, MSc

Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor in her new book Whole Brain Living says that most of humanity who live urban lives are stuck in the left brain. This results in linear, mechanistic thinking in the past and future tense, structured, certain, analytical, detail...

Endurance and Equanimity: Attributes of an Effective Leader

by Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership | Feb 24, 2021 | Lalith Gunaratne CET, MSc

Endurance is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue.i Equanimity is defined as a state of...

Inherently Spiritual People must be led by Spiritually Intelligent Leaders

by Bonar Institute for Purposeful Leadership | Aug 9, 2020 | Lalith Gunaratne CET, MSc

The COVID pandemic has given the world a pause as we face the biological response to an ecological crisis. The crises exacerbated by the frenetic pace of the world with unfettered consumerism and economic growth have given us time to reflect on the merits of the...
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