Will the Global World Change the Leaders? - Prophets and Pioneers of the Future

Abstract

The paper provides insights into the capacity of these leaders to re-shape mentalities, believes, meanings, consciousness of individuals and shapes models of spiritual, reenchanter business leaders binding the individuals, business organizations and surrounding world, and several tools and methods used to reenchant the organization and its members. The approach was a qualitative one, based on the link between empirical observation and leadership theories. In particular, leaders in various lines were observed, as constructive poles, reforming or recreating meanings of daily life in post-modern world. Various literatures had been investigated, as well as different trends of opinion, leader's discourses, and mass-media. A rate of uncertainty accompanied the research as result of advertising behind personalities. Difficulties in finding the core of these individuals joined the track of research, reason for developing several models of leaders. So far, reenchanting was mainly tackled from sociologic point of view while the assignation to post-modern management connects the spirituality of leaders and leading from soul producing the kind of leaders that individuals, organizations and world long for.The research revealed a set of characteristics of leaders who, cultivating a deep inner spiritual life, bring the rational to supra-rational and teach unobservant, uncertain and unconscious individuals to notice what nature and life are trying to show them. In addition, a major finding was the substantiation of a cluster of methods and tools that leaders can use to reenchant the individuals.