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Who do you know who carries substance as a leader? Not extraordinary talent or compelling charisma or impressive expertise, just substance. Weight of character. An unusual presence.
\nWe might call it spiritual gravitas. Such men and women rarely seek the spotlight or dominate the room, but when they speak, you sense that their words rise from a deep core. Intuitively, you know that they carry a tensile strength forged in the heat of both victories and defeats.<\/strong> They have paid the price for the truths that now flow from their mouth, words that in turn evoke depths of trust and confidence. You feel drawn and secure, quietly inspired by something that\u2019s hard to name.
\nOther leaders take up an impressive amount of space in a crowd. A commanding voice. Unshakeable confidence. Some type of magnetic personality. All eyes turn when they rise . . . and they rise often. Here you feel drawn as well, maybe even electrified by force of personality. But at the end of the day, you\u2019re not sure how far you could trust them, not certain you would put your life on the line for them.
\nYears ago, I attended a small conference. The speaker had a modest following and a few books, but he was only really known within a fairly tight circle. Yet there was something I felt instantly. Gravitas. Spiritual authority. I was captivated, and I listened to him for hours without losing interest. Even more, I felt like something deep and true was being mysteriously established in me as he spoke.
\nThe word gravitas might evoke images of somber faces and dreary tones, maybe even an intimidating aura, but none of that was true for this speaker. With an easy smile, he spoke softly in slow, thoughtful sentences with very little drama of presentation. It was not exactly a TED talk, yet I sat rapt with attention, content to let his words wash over me and seep inside.
\nI think that\u2019s the thing about gravitas: It begets more gravitas. I have sometimes imagined myself becoming a dashing, charismatic speaker who could stir crowds and be much in demand. And while there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, this guy made me want something different. I found myself wanting to speak from that same deep place, to carry a more grounded substance of being.<\/strong> This man will never know that he set my life course on a new trajectory.<\/p>\n

Got Weight?<\/h2>\n

Gravitas comes from a Latin word that mirrors our English word \u201cgravity,\u201d anchored in the idea of weight. \u201cDignity,\u201d \u201cpresence,\u201d \u201cinfluence\u201d\u2014these descriptors attempt to capture the effect that such a quality of character has on others.[i]<\/a> In the social stampede for overt power, there is little demand for gravitas. But when you feel this subtle force in someone, you know instinctively that they are anchored to the earth, immune to the winds of fad and fashion. They don\u2019t usually soar in popularity or plunge in ignominy. They are here today and here tomorrow, steadily elevating those around them with kindness and wisdom.
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\nOver the past decade, I have coached many leaders, from starry-eyed entrepreneurs to buttoned-down corporate types, from savvy business owners to burned-out pastors, and all sorts in between. Each juggles talent and passion; each navigates setbacks and celebrates wins. Coaching is a great job, and I love watching people become the best version of themselves.
\nHere\u2019s the thing: Almost no one hires me for character formation or spiritual growth. People hire me to achieve something that has dollars attached to it: starting a company, writing a book, training a work group, or coaching a key performer. All of these are good things, and I find joy in such meaningful work. But there is always a bigger story available behind that desire. Achieving an organizational goal or completing a project is the canvas on which the deeper work of formation is being crafted. And it is the soul more than the project that will endure.<\/strong>
\nWhich brings us to the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n

A Marketplace in Upheaval<\/h2>\n

Leadership development is a billion-dollar industry. New skills, new techniques, new lingo, new assessments, new gurus, and new books swing in and out of our attention every quarter like revolving ads on a website. There are a lot of smart people showing us how to do more, do it better, and do it faster than ever before. And in many ways, we have benefited from their strategic thinking and best practices. Time management, organizational theory, and marketplace scrutiny have made most of us better at what we do.
\nThe axiom goes, \u201cwork smarter, not harder,\u201d but for every leader I know who is absorbing all the \u201csmarts\u201d coming at us so furiously, I see a leader who is indeed working harder. The British philosopher Bertrand Russell speculated in 1932 that if we could merely improve our management expertise in society, the average person need only work four hours a day.[ii]<\/a> About the same time, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the year 2030, a fifteen-hour workweek would be standard fare.[iii]<\/a> Despite those rosy images, a recent Gallup poll placed the current average workweek at forty-seven hours,[iv]<\/a> and most leaders I know would scoff at such a low number.
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\nHow does such a busy world allow for so lofty a concept as gravitas? Seriously, who has the time?
\nBut lack of time for gravitas is killing us.
\nLeaders are burning out and flaming out at an epic rate. The opposite of gravitas surrounds us and blares from every media channel. Moral failures, abuses of power, and ruthless self-promotion are the more obvious symptoms of our anemic national character. In both ministry and the marketplace, we have succumbed to expediency at the cost of integrity. Where is the rootedness? Where is the humility?
\nWe discuss the public falls with dismay and grieve the more private, personal falls. And mostly, we ignore the quieter alternative to burnout and flameout: numbing out. How many leaders have released their passion to disillusionment and slid softly onto autopilot?<\/strong>
\nWe must draw the connection between symptoms and the root cause. The cause is a lack of roots. Truly, our culture channels a storm that is uprooting many.
\nConsider a client of mine. Vince is the president of a small telecom company that, at $25 million in gross profits, is modest within his industry. His company was put on the map by selling and installing pay phones. When is the last time you saw one of those? Material things, even the best and smartest, eventually decay. The only thing that kept Vince\u2019s company from following their phones into extinction was a prudent shift into an entirely different part of the telecom market, where they are now thriving. They survived a potentially catastrophic market storm.
\nStorms serve a purpose: They expose dangerously weak foundations and invite new construction to our internal world. The greater the external pressure on our lives and leadership, the more God whispers to us in those rare still moments. Step off the gerbil wheel. You are made for more than turning the economic flywheel of industry. You are made for me! And only in me will you be useful in the workplace. Can you hear that whisper echo in the subterranean cavities of your soul? That divine invitation hangs in the air, directed to you personally.<\/p>\n

Helping Write God\u2019s Story<\/h2>\n

Whether leading in ministry or the marketplace, the men and women I know want to do more than turn a profit and grow an empire; they want to do good in the world. They want to write a redemptive, God-sized story in their sphere.<\/strong> They want their employees to thrive as individuals as well as contribute to the mission. They want the love of God to extend across the planet in ways that ease pain and establish peace. They want the earth to no longer groan under the weight of poverty and pollution and violence. And while they\u2014and all of us\u2014can\u2019t do everything, we know in a profound way that we can indeed do something.<\/p>\n

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Another client owns a successful professional business: Janet Ward and fortyish employees bring in about $5 million a year. Commendable, but not necessarily remarkable. But here\u2019s what is remarkable: They give away 10 percent of their revenue! That\u2019s right, they tithe on the gross and put half a million dollars every year into about fifty nonprofits across the planet that are making life better for tens of thousands.[v]<\/a> That is spiritual influence. That is something we don\u2019t have enough of in today\u2019s marketplace.
\nSpiritual substance. Depth. Weight. Spiritual gravitas. Where could we possibly turn to find a supply of such intangibles? What ancient cache could we open to obtain a spiritual rootedness that can withstand cultural storms and change the world for good in modern times?<\/p>\n

A Wealth of Gravitas<\/h2>\n

What if there was a whole culture of spiritual substance, carefully cultivated over generations, with intentional practices and dedicated focus on the inner life? A leadership community that was all about going deep, not wide? Cloisters of men and women who anchored themselves in the life of God so that they could speak the words of God with quiet power?
\nActually, this is part of our heritage. In Ireland, they were called Celts; in Russia, they were called poustinikki; in Egypt, they were called desert fathers and mothers. But the most common and inclusive word for these men and women of spiritual gravitas is monk.
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\nThe particulars of their lives, the qualifications of their communities, and the emphasis of their spiritual activity were as varied as their times and places dictated. And our own modern world calls for its own applications that relate directly to the needs of our time and place. The lifestyle of the monastery cultivated the very spiritual depth we feel such a dearth of today. We can no longer meet the complexity of today\u2019s leadership challenges from the superficiality and shallowness of today\u2019s leadership culture.<\/strong> We must reach back to a simpler time for deeper resources in order to become \u201cmonks in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

My Own Gravitas Failures<\/h2>\n

Let me get personal for a moment. When I speak of leading from a shallow, superficial space, I mean that I\u2019ve not only seen it in others, I\u2019ve known it intimately in my own journey. In my career, I\u2019ve experienced two defining twelve-year cycles that mirrored one another as overarching life lessons that went something like this: exuberance \u2192 performance \u2192 disintegration \u2192 renewal. I guess I\u2019m a tough case; once wasn\u2019t enough!
\nStraight out of seminary, I launched into the pastorate with my new bride and, although zealous for God and my wife, I promptly displaced both with the mistress of ministry over that decade. It\u2019s an all-too-common story, and I detail my recovery from it in my first book, Soul Space. It took a year\u2019s sabbatical in the mountains of Colorado to restore my marriage and my soul, and the reorientation was profound. The crucible had done its refining work, but we were just getting started.
\nSeveral years later, a new vision emerged, and I launched my executive-coaching business in 2005. Again, I got off to an exciting, profitable start and experienced a steady upward trend for several years. But although my spiritual practices had deepened, they were not yet strong enough to support my growing influence. Over the next several years, my soul began to flounder.
\nAs the recession hit, business took a dive, and I unconsciously correlated profitability with blessing. Like the girl picking pedals off a daisy, saying, \u201cHe loves me, he loves me not,\u201d my felt experience of God\u2019s affection rose and fell with the tides of my profit and loss statement. Through a long series of humiliations, God began to anchor my feet on the bedrock of his unceasing care for me, and I experienced an upswell of gravitas.
\nIn an intensely personal way, I\u2019ve come to learn that the core truths that comprise our life message are so precious to God and so fundamental to our calling that many rounds of refining and strengthening are necessary to empower the leadership God intends to bring forth from it.<\/strong> Like layers of an onion, we have to get through one shell to get to the next. In so doing, we pay the price over the course of time and testing in order to lead with spiritual authority.
\nThis is probably a good time to clarify the sense in which I\u2019m using the expression \u201cspiritual authority.\u201d I do not mean it to refer to positional authority, such as pastoral staff or the C-suite. Instead, I\u2019m referring to what we\u2019ve been talking about in these initial pages\u2014the grace to influence others in redemptive directions by virtue of virtue, as a result of knowing God deeply and walking with God richly so our influence is inherently God-breathed. This quality often coincides with positional authority yet neither requires it nor can be replaced by it (Matthew 20:25).
\nFor illustration, we need go no further than Jesus, a man with little cultural position yet who continually astounded his listeners, contrasting mightily with the positional authorities of his time:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law\u201d (Matthew 7:28-29, emphasis added).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They seemed even more impressed by the authority he carried in word than in deed; the miracles were the evidence of the authority he carried in his person (Matthew 9:6). And authority was precisely what Jesus bestowed on his disciples as he sent them out to extend what he had begun (Matthew 10:1). Isn\u2019t it time for us to live in the fullness of that calling once again?<\/p>\n

How Far Is Your Reach?<\/h2>\n

So it\u2019s worth asking, what is the sphere of your spiritual authority? How far is your influence meant to extend? Honestly, most of us don\u2019t know\u2014and that\u2019s probably by design. If it were further than seems comfortable, we would likely be intimidated . . . and if it were smaller than our ambition, we might well chafe at the constraints. Most of us simply have to live into our destiny one day at a time.
\nBut the reason it\u2019s valuable to consider our reach lies in the classic illustration of the branches on a tree. Perhaps you know that the network of roots underneath a tree extend horizontally in roughly the same dimension as the branches.[vi]<\/a> So, a tree with a twenty-five-foot height and a twenty-foot branch radius, like the weeping cherry in my backyard, would have a tangle of roots with approximately the same spread beneath the surface. And the towering willow oak just outside our fence probably has root tendrils that extend almost sixty feet in diameter! Talk about biological gravitas.
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\nThe influence of leaders can easily outgrow their character. It happens every day. God-engineered giftedness does what it was designed to do: It grows. Branches spread and influence rises. But what was meant for the glory of God is often undermined by a stunted root system, so we now have a leadership landscape virtually littered with capsized \u201ctrees,\u201d men and women of great potential and calling whose spiritual formation in God was cut short in their rush to do great things for God.<\/strong> And maybe even somewhat for themselves.
\nSo how far does your leadership influence extend? How many children rely on your spiritual foundation? How many employees or direct reports? How many in your small group? How many represented by the nonprofit board you\u2019re on? How many read your books or blog, listen to your podcast, or are on your payroll? Frankly, we have little idea of just how much influence we already carry and are usually naively eager for more.
\nNow think about the roots underneath your tree. How strong are they, and how deep do they run? Can they sustain a class-7 gale with ease, or do they tremble in a summer thunderstorm? Before you grasp after that next promotion or instigate strategic planning for a new satellite office, it might be time to do some root work.
\nThis book Gravitas<\/em> is all about helping you extend your roots, deep and far. It\u2019s not about helping you be more externally productive but about helping you thrive internally so that you can fulfill God\u2019s greatest purpose through you.
\nAt the same time, you\u2019re busy. The pressure for productivity is a constant in your life. Is rootedness worth the time? In Jesus\u2019 words, \u201cCome, and you will see\u201d (John 1:39).
\nIf you\u2019re ready to grow your gravitas, come join those who have gone before. Let\u2019s learn from the monastics how to go more deep than wide. We don\u2019t have to be the spiritual elite; all we need is desire . . . because that is precisely where God meets us and does extraordinary things. Let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n

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\"\"You’ve been reading from the intro of Gravitas: The Monastic Rhythms of Healthy Leadership<\/em>. Continue reading chapter one for free<\/strong><\/a> right here. Jerome Daley<\/strong><\/a> is an executive coach with specialties in culture-crafting, communication and conflict, self-leadership, and team development. Get his books, schedule a retreat or learn more about him at thrive9solutions.com.<\/a>
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[i]<\/a> Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. \u201cgravitas (n.),\u201d accessed August 9, 2019, https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/gravitas.
\n[ii]<\/a> Bertrand Russell, \u201cIn Praise of Idleness,\u201d Harper\u2019s Magazine, October 1932, https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/1932\/10\/in-praise-of-idleness\/.
\n[iii]<\/a> A scan of the original source, John Maynard Keynes, \u201cEconomic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930),\u201d is available here: http:\/\/www.econ.yale.edu\/smith\/econ116a\/keynes1.pdf.
\n[iv]<\/a> Lydia Saad, \u201cThe \u201840-Hour\u2019 Workweek Is Actually Longer\u2014by Seven Hours,\u201d Gallup, August 29, 2014, https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/175286\/hour-workweek-actually-longer-seven-hours.aspx.
\n[v]<\/a> Susan Shinn Turner, \u201cJanet Ward Black Relies on \u2018God\u2019s Math\u2019 to Give Back to Community,\u201d Salisbury Post, November 28, 2018, https:\/\/www.salisburypost.com\/2018\/11\/28\/janet-ward-black-relies-on-gods-math-to-give-back-to-community\/.
\n[vi]<\/a> Contary to common belief, a tree\u2019s roots are not precise mirror images of its branches (hence my use of the word roughly here); Portland Parks & Recreation, \u201cTree Physiology Primer\u2014All About Roots!,\u201d accessed August 21, 2019, https:\/\/www.portlandoregon.gov\/parks\/article\/587789.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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