ABSTRACT
Of the top ten trends identified by respondents to the World Economic Forum global survey of 2015, a lack of leadership was number three on the list with 86% strongly agreeing that the world is facing a leadership crisis. Two years later, the World Economic Forum issued a worldwide plea for more responsive and responsible leadership. This chapter examines how responsible leadership is most effective when it is aligned with spiritual practice. David McClelland was interested in three interactive characteristics of both people and organizations that appeared to predict leadership success: personal psychological motives, role incentives and activity inhibition. According to social dominance theory, all human communities organise themselves as group-based social hierarchies where powerful groups dominate others. People high in social dominance orientation see the world as a zero-sum game where groups compete for access to desirable resources such as financial wealth, education, health services, status and influence.
