Danah zohar
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Danah Zohar is a management thought leader, physicist, philosopher and author. She is known for her work on spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital
.
. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT
, and did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University
, where she was a student of Erik Erikson
.
Danah Zohar has been a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management
and at the Maquarie University School of Management in Sydney
, Australia. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University
.
Danah Zohar is active in management education and consultancy. She regularly speaks at leadership forums and works with corporate leadership teams worldwide. She has worked with the leadership initiatives of both local and national governments. Together with her husband and coauthor Ian Marshall she runs workshops for leaders on the importance of spiritual intelligence, spiritual capital
and their connection with sustainability.
Applying language and metaphors from quantum physics, chaos theory
and complexity science and combining them with philosophy, psychology and sociology, Danah Zohar (together with her husband and coauthor Ian Marshall) posit spiritual intelligence (SQ) and spiritual capital as necessary tools to attain sustainability.
Main points of spiritual intelligence (SQ) and spiritual capital concepts
Spiritual intelligence (SQ) is the intelligence with which we access our deepest meanings, purposes, and highest motivations
Spiritual capital reflects what an individual or an organization exists for, believes in, aspires to, and takes responsibility for.
SQ, spiritual capital, and sustainability are crucially linked.
SQ’s sense of meaning, values, and purpose generates spiritual capital. Spirituals capital’s wealth of meaning, values and higher motivation are necessary to sustainable capitalism and sustainable society.
Connection between three kinds of capital (material, social and spiritual) and three major human intelligences (IQ, EQ and SQ):
Spiritual capital
Spiritual capital is a concept that involves the quantification of the value to individuals, groups and society of spiritual, moral or psychological beliefs and practices. Proponents liken it to other forms of capital, including material capital , intellectual capital, and social capital...
.
Biography
Danah Zohar was born and educated in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She studied Physics and Philosophy at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, and did her postgraduate work in Philosophy, Religion & Psychology at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where she was a student of Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T...
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Danah Zohar has been a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield School of Management is part of Cranfield University and a leading business school in the world. Cranfield University has provided management training since the late 1940s...
and at the Maquarie University School of Management in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University is a new university in Oxford, England. It was named to honour the school's founding principal, John Brookes. It has been ranked as the best new university by the Sunday Times University Guide 10 years in a row...
.
Danah Zohar is active in management education and consultancy. She regularly speaks at leadership forums and works with corporate leadership teams worldwide. She has worked with the leadership initiatives of both local and national governments. Together with her husband and coauthor Ian Marshall she runs workshops for leaders on the importance of spiritual intelligence, spiritual capital
Spiritual capital
Spiritual capital is a concept that involves the quantification of the value to individuals, groups and society of spiritual, moral or psychological beliefs and practices. Proponents liken it to other forms of capital, including material capital , intellectual capital, and social capital...
and their connection with sustainability.
Work
As a one of pioneers in extending the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization, Danah Zohar wrote The Quantum Self, The Quantum Society, and ReWiring the Corporate Brain. This path has led her to write two other ground-breaking books (coauthored with Ian Marshall) SQ - Spiritual Intelligence, The Ultimate Intelligence, and Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By which constitute work on spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital.Applying language and metaphors from quantum physics, chaos theory
Chaos theory
Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the...
and complexity science and combining them with philosophy, psychology and sociology, Danah Zohar (together with her husband and coauthor Ian Marshall) posit spiritual intelligence (SQ) and spiritual capital as necessary tools to attain sustainability.
Main points of spiritual intelligence (SQ) and spiritual capital concepts
Spiritual intelligence (SQ) is the intelligence with which we access our deepest meanings, purposes, and highest motivations
Spiritual capital reflects what an individual or an organization exists for, believes in, aspires to, and takes responsibility for.
SQ, spiritual capital, and sustainability are crucially linked.
SQ’s sense of meaning, values, and purpose generates spiritual capital. Spirituals capital’s wealth of meaning, values and higher motivation are necessary to sustainable capitalism and sustainable society.
Connection between three kinds of capital (material, social and spiritual) and three major human intelligences (IQ, EQ and SQ):
| Capital | |Intelligence | |Function |
|---|---|---|
| Material Capital | IQ: Rational Intelligence | What I think |
| Social Capital | EQ: Emotional Intelligence | What I feel |
| Spiritual Capital | SQ: Spiritual Intelligence | What I am |
Selected bibliography
- The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics (1990; ISBN 0688087809)
- Quantum Society: Mind, Physics and a New Social Vision (1994; ISBN 068810603X)
- ReWiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations (1997; ISBN 9971512149)
- Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's CatSchrödinger's catSchrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that might be...
? (1997; ISBN 0688161073) - SQ: Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence (2000; ISBN 0747546762)
- Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By (2004; ISBN 1576751384)
See also
- List of authors published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Spiritual IntelligenceSpiritual intelligenceSpiritual intelligence is a term used to indicate a spiritual correlate to IQ and EQ . Like EQ, SQ is becoming more mainstream in scientific inquiry and philosophical/psychological discussion....
- Spiritual QuotientSpiritual quotientSpiritual quotient is described as a measure that looks at a person's spiritual intelligence in the same way as intelligence quotient looks at cognitive intelligence...