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In the Preface, we introduced Andre Delbecq’s heuristic of a “spiritually and developmentally mature leader”; and we noted that a heuristic, like a brainteaser, points one’s thoughts in a certain direction; but, instead of providing answers, it generates questions. Indeed, the deeper one explores a heuristic, the more questions that may arise! In this chapter, we offer concluding thoughts on questions we posed in the preface; and we include material on two vital threads—community and transcendence—that ran through the Delbecq Retreat, but were not explicitly mentioned top three in the Nominal Group Technique. Community and transcendence are so intricately woven into our understanding of spiritually and developmentally mature leadership that we must acknowledge them here.
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Harris, D.E., Holyfield, L., Jones, L., Ellis, R., Neal, J. (2019). Concluding Thoughts and Call to Action. In: Spiritually and Developmentally Mature Leadership. Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11175-5_11
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