Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Transformational Learning Journeys

Seeing Is Believing

 

Philip H. Mirvis

 

 

 

 

 

Picture 250 company leaders, ranging from top corporate officers to local brand managers, spending two to three days in India visiting ashrams, hospitals, schools, micro-enterprises, and charities. They tend to the needy, offer service and support, and ponder how spiritual leaders, caregivers, and community entrepreneurs can accomplish so much with so few resources. In a desert campsite, for three days thereafter, they reflect on the meaning of their experiences, talk over its relevance for them, and rediscover what a true mission is—and what a new form of leadership could mean.

Said one leader: “Looking at the Sikh community I cannot ...