title: Zen leadership: balancing energy for mind, body, and spirit harmony.
abstract: This article explores leadership characteristics and practices that assist us both professionally and personally to be authentic and integrated in mind, body, and spirit for harmony. The transformational leadership characteristics--courage; belief in people; value driven; a life-long learner and teacher; a complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty expert; and a visionary leader--all deal with the leader's ability to develop relationships through teamwork, collaboration, networking, mentoring, and establishing boundaries. The author realized the importance of reflection to maintaining a healthy relationship not only with others but also with self.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Swanson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002016:Buddhism; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008019:Life Style; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology*; D011361:Professional Competence; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*