The work community is becoming the most significant community for many people. We are coming to expect our work -where we spend most of our time -to satisfy our needs for wholeness and to help provide spiritual support for our deeply held values and our aspirations for personal as well as economic growth.Reports on original research which supports a growing literature attesting to the centrality of work in meeting both economic and spiritual needs. Spirit refers to the vital, energizing force or principle in the person, the core of self. Respondent managers understand spirit in its secular connotation as defining self meaning and motivation for action. Begins a definition of a model of leadership based on this kind of spiritual relationship, one founded on morality, stewardship, and community. Also lists some critical issues that this emerging leadership model faces.

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Understanding the essential truth about what leadership is, is not easy. The problem is that each person sees leadership through the lens of his or her unique virtual reality. We each interpret the world and major ideas like leadership from a mind‐set that seems real and logical to us, but ignores or discounts other equally (maybe even more) logical perspectives. This paper explores alternative leadership realities. It concludes that most of us must progress through each of five leadership virtual environments before we can sense the full meaning of leadership.