Leading Without a Self: Implications of Buddhist Practices for Pseudo-spiritual Leadership

Abstract This paper extends Being-centered and spiritual leadership theory using non-self from the Buddhist philosophy to further our understanding of how inner life functions as source leadership. While has received widespread acceptance considerable empirical support, its developmental process potential for being used pursue self-centered ends remain underdeveloped. Drawing on emptiness theory, we identify different egoistic forms attachment at each level that can lead suffering in Then show leaders operating lower levels fall into trap practicing a form pseudo-spiritual is overly focused or instrumental purposes economic rationality. We then introduce mechanisms move beyond practices discuss implications future research, practice.