Global Leadership Under Oneness: Connecting Consious Parts to Conscientious Wholes

This chapter examines the role of oneness in today’s business world both as a philosophical and a psychological resource. Oneness from a philosophical perspective center around being the confluence point that bridges the Eastern and the Western world both as an idea and a practice. From a WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) and non-WEIRD paradigm perspectives, approaches to self differ along the lines of “individual needs, societal order, self-regulation and moral codes”. More importantly, non-WEIRD approaches to self connote an expansive version of the self which is congruent with the Oneness hypothesis. As an idea to be employed in the self–other interaction practices, oneness could be a possible area of exploration and application as well. Oneness as a psychological resource concentrates on “consciousness” which could be experienced and cultivated “within” and “between”. While the world of any two entities seemingly may appear as separate, at any level of existence be it personal, organizational, or cultural, if consciousness could be developed in both an intrapersonal and interpersonal capacity, the possibilities of co-existence therefore co-creation could definitely be discovered. On a practical level, many tools could be used to enhance our consciousness capacity both within and between the world of business organizations. Those tools were presented as mindfulness practice, appreciative inquiry, role-plays and AI/VR technologies. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023