Examines ways to rise above organizational politics by redefining success and progress.
Draws out the differences between workplace spirituality and workplace politics, demonstrating why the former is generally more positive than the latter.
Contends that success should be synonymous with happiness rather than with affluence, while the real definition of human progress entails something that our civilization radically defies: acceptance of our legitimate place as members of a community that consists of human beings, as well as species different from – yet not inferior to – the human.
Advances the view that many workers choose to leave highly political workplaces, and become NONs (no fiefdom, outsider, no fit).
Suggests that the NONs, once courageous enough to step outside the organizational box, move on in different settings, often entrepreneurial or smaller organizations, and are able to display greater performance excellence, success in the form of greater contentment, and progress in the form of acceptance of the self and others.
Adds to the growing literature on workplace spirituality.
