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Danah Zohar speaks to GMP participants on their graduation day
Bled (Slovenia), 19 October 2007
The IEDC-Bled School of Management has awarded certificates to the 33rd generation of the General Management Program (GMP). The graduation ceremony was marked by a lecture by Dr. Danah Zohar, a management thought leader, founder of the concept of spiritual intelligence (SQ) and author of a number of best-selling books in the field of spiritual capital.
At the graduation ceremony of the GMP 2007 Class, attended by faculty members and company representatives, certificates were awarded to 45 participants coming from Austria, Croatia, France, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey, who successfully concluded the five-week program. The group started the GMP, a program for rapidly rising managers who are assuming strategic responsibilities within their companies, in May 2007 and after five weeks of intensive studies, split in two modules, they joined the group of almost thousand students from Europe, North America and Asia who attended this IEDC's program in the past.
In her lecture, Danah Zohar, the author of Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By and SQ - Spiritual Intelligence, The Ultimate Intelligence, which constitute ground-breaking work on SQ, spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital, has pointed out that the world is changing towards a new paradigm, where not only materialism capital and intellectual intelligence count, but is taking into consideration social capital and emotional intelligence, plus often missing spiritual capital. The latter can be acquired by asking questions like "why we are here, why are we doing something", while the expression "spiritual capital" does not intend to touch any religious questions.
In the opinion of Dr. Zohar, spiritual capital is the base in the company, from which the social and material capital can be built on; if a company does not have a soul (people who know why they are there, to what they are contributing, sense of meaning), its service is bad and customers are unsatisfied. If a company wants to constantly develop and change with the demands of the environment, it needs strong spiritual capital; only a strong purpose can give a company creeative ideas and lead to fulfillment of that purpose.
The next generation of the GMP starts on 30 March 2008. Feedback from GMP alumni indicates that the program helps to improve individual skills and knowledge, and serves as a major milestone in career planning, and networking throughout the Region.
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