The New Professionalism: Connecting Science And Spirit

By Steven Liebowitz

The New Professionalism enables professionals (and others such as sales people, landscape maintenance workers, security guards, and small business owners who identify with quality ‘professional’ work) to think beyond the traditional professional rational/science only paradigm to include spirit/intuition, thus connecting Science and Spirit to be more open, effective and experience less stress.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Liebowitz
• Release date: Oct 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9780988475519

Steven Liebowitz

Steve Liebowitz’ interest in non-traditional ways of understanding the Bible, began under fire during the first TET Offensive in Vietnam in 1968. In Devorah he shares the idea that God is much more than we think He is. This awareness sustained him in the defense of his doctoral dissertation in l990, and continues to support his Business Coaching and Management Consulting practice today. In addition to his PH.D, Dr. Liebowitz holds two Masters Degrees. He is currently Commander of JWV Post 243 in Coral Gables. Not only has Dr Steve researched these ideas, he’s lived them.

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"With The New Professionalism Steve Liebowitz delivers a welcome, uplifting message: there is a way to meaningfully marry science and spirit and give birth to a new, more powerful you. But you’ll have to rip up your engrained thinking and feeling to set yourself free from fear and feel that new power in you. His spirited plea, to the point and very readable, comes with detailed, practical suggestions for doing philosophy without inhibition. That will create your E-Power, which lets you have and offer it all: the spiritual and the material. A smart, enjoyable read."

- Jan Smolders, author, carries Belgian and USA passports, lived in Belgium, Japan and Singapore, now in Florida, has run industrial corporations worldwide and led Clinton Foundation initiatives in Latin-America.

"The New Professionalism offers a participative philosophical experience. It dissolves the seeming contradiction between Science and Spirit, freeing their combined power to serve our dreams."

- Christiane Ledakis, International Conference Interpreter, Writer and Freelance Interpreter based in Geneva and Miami.

It is also a step-by-step, scientifically based guide on how to achieve professional-client relationships of mutual empowerment, guaranteeing win-win results for all, while offering a fresh and empowering definition of successful 21st century professionalism, and practical, scientifically based advice on how to achieve it.

- Christiane Ledakis, International Conference Interpreter, Writer and Freelance Interpreter based in Geneva and Miami.

Dr. Liebowitz’ writing encourages the reader to understand that science and spirituality complement each other in a wonderful convergence oneness. This holistic approach to professionalism is a must read.

- Badru Deen--Author: Out of the Doubles Kitchen--A memoir of the first family of Doubles--the number one street food of Trinidad & Tobago.

The excellent Foreword and Introduction are what hooked me into buying my copy. Well done! I also enjoyed the excellent illustrations which facilitate understanding and are well placed throughout the book.

– Robert Jacober, Author & Consultant

The New Professionalism

Connecting Science and Spirit

Steven Liebowitz, Ed. D.

The New Professionalism : Connecting Science And Spirit to Empower Professional and Other Relationships

Copyright © 1998 by Steven Liebowitz, Ed.D.. All rights reserved.

Second Smashwords Edition: 2014

Harmony-Quest Publications

Miami, Florida

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher, except those uses in compliance with the fair use provisions of United States copyright Law.

The New Professionalism – connecting science and spirit to empower professional and other relationships / Steve Liebowitz; illustrations by Humberto Lopez – 1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatting: Streetlight Graphics

Preassigned LCCN: 9795303

Psychology, Applied. 2. Interpersonal relations—Religious aspects—New Age Movement. 3. Success—Religious aspects—New Age movement. 4. Interpersonal communications—Religious aspects—New Age movement. I. Title

Printed in the United States Of America

Liebowitz, Steven E.

BF636.l54 1998

158.2 QB198-228

Library of Congress

Catalog Number 97-095303

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my parents, without whom the author wouldn’t be here, to my wife, without whom this book wouldn’t be here, and to Myra Brown for her most generous and enabling support.

Forward

THE NEW PROFESSIONALISM:

Connecting Science and Spirit to Empower Professional and Other Relationships

Professionalism is the ism of professionals. Just as capitalism is the ism of capital and communism, the ism of communes. An ism is a philosophy, the do’s and don’ts, rules, ideals, norms and myths associated with a significant concept. Today, the power and influence of professionals in our society is such that they merit their own ism. The new professionalism differs from the old, because it is based on both/and, holistic thinking.

T

his book is about empowering

all our relationships. It focuses on professionalism because professional relationships play a key role in our society. Professionals get things done, set the standard. Everyone wants to be professional. If professional relationships became more empowering, soon all relationships would be more empowering.

So, whether you consider yourself a professional or a client, this book is for you. It can help you overcome frustration, reduce stress and achieve your ideals. The book helps you to see that we all have situations when we’re expected to be in the role of the professional (the knowlegeable, responsible authority) and others when we’re expected to be in the client/customer role (the less knowledgeable, passive recipient).

But though each of us switches between the roles of professional and client/customer in the course of a day, no matter what role we’re in, the ancient ideal of professional service—doing well, by doing good—can empower the relationship. That ideal is the heart of The New Professionalism.

Doing well, by doing good, is based on both/and thinking and focuses on the relationship. It means accomplishing two things at once; making a profit and providing what is best for the client. No trade-off; not either the client’s best interests or the professional’s; not either science or spirit. That’s the old professionalism based on either/or thinking.

Both/and thinking, the basis of The New Professionalism, has the relationship as the focus. It empowers, overcoming frustration, reducing stress and helping us achieve our ideals by connecting client and professional, science and spirit.

Something seems to happen when we’re expected to be the professional. We automatically become old professionals. We feel we have to choose science over spirit, assertiveness instead of passivity. It becomes cool objectivity over compassionate warmth; pessimistic, hard-nosed, bottom-line analysis instead of optimistic idealism. We might not choose to be this way as individuals, but enter a professional relationship and we feel it’s our duty; what it means to be professional, how we’re expected to behave.

As a result, creativity, vision and the ability to provide what others need tends to be minimized.

New professionals, face no such choice. Not either professionals or human beings, they’re both/and. Creativity, vision and the ability to be responsive come from the shift to both/and thinking. It’s like night and day. The same professional, client, employee, manager or customer – now with a different way to interpret inner and outer reality. Change becomes possible.

Businesses, individuals, schools, professional associations, government agencies and non-profits of all types have much to gain from adopting The New Professionalism. It includes previously excluded spiritual aspects – creativity, compassion, belonging—and better performance, less stress and greater flexibility result.

When the mindset forcing a choice between spirit and science is eliminated, the power of both is available. So is the energy wasted in hypocrisy, struggle and distress. Deep satisfaction and personal integrity result from the mind shift at the heart of The New Professionalism. Using both science and spirit and taking the relationship as the focus, bridges the seeming gap between client and professional, compassion and rationality, to create empowered, win-win relationships.

Introduction

The Way of the Professional

A

Way is both spiritual and

material. It is at once the distilation of an entire civilization’s spiritual ideals and the practical steps needed to make them real. Every civilization has a Way. China, its ancient Tao; Native Americans, their Blessing Way and as the century turns, the United States has the Way of the Professional. As with all such paths, the American Way of the Professional is open to everyone, regardless of title, willing to walk it truly—to connect science (special knowledge and expertise) with Spirit (clarity and inner direction) for the common good.

But few are able to do so. Though professionalism dominates nearly all the relationships in our market-oriented society—as customers we expect to be treated in a professional way, and as workers we want to be treated as professionals—it is hollow. Few understand what being a professional on the Way is all about. There is little agreement about the common good, and even less about Spirit and whether it can or should be connected to Science.

Self-discipline, codes of conduct, ethics and service for a greater good are rarely spoken of. Human dignity, peace, quiet, community and cooperation are too often simply means to an end. And how could winning the silver in the Olympics ever have become a source of shame and sorrow? This is not, nor has it ever been, the Way of the Professional.

Terribly weakened by seeming contradictions—between winning and serving and technology and spirituality—the Way, the professional ideal, has become a cliché, a path of power and privilege; of one upsmanship and personal gain; of material success at the price of inner emptiness and soul-rot.

But not for everyone. Some who consider themselves professionals do have codes of conduct, compassion and a clear sense of the common good. These people, sensing that the contradictions between Science and Spirit are more apparent than real, make them