Marcus Bussey PhD Understandings of leadership and what makes a good leader tend to be framed by those in power. By contrast the ‘led’ get worn out models and poor role modelling as the infotainment industry’s standard serve of ‘News’. This is reinforced in most walks of life. The dominant model for leadership is not…
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An Opinion: Prophetic Leadership and Working Towards a Sadvipra Society
Marcus Bussey, PhD Strong visionary leaders are what many of us yearn for today. We feel the lack of justice and imagination in our bones. Yet when they arise they become targets for vested interests who violently strike them down. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2025) has recently reflected on this in an excellent article entitled…
The Emergence of Enlightened Leadership
By Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar; excerpted from Problems of the Day (1958) Only psychic and spiritual education can create sadvipras. Only those who are established in Yama and Niyama [moral code] – who are imbued with Cosmic ideation – I call sadvipras. Political leaders cannot create sadvipras by haranguing people from public platforms – this…
Dialogues Between Neohumanism and Emergent Philosophies
Stephanie Ezra Abstract: This article investigates how participatory foresight methods, particularly scenario-based games, can surface, challenge, and reconfigure our assumptions about ethical leadership and moral systems in imagined futures. Drawing on a live online session of the Dreams and Disruptions game hosted by the Canadian Foresight Network in June 2025, the paper reconstructs a collaboratively…
Becoming Better Leaders: Applied Insights into Inner and Outer Transformation
Satya Tanner Abstract: This paper examines how leaders can become more masterful, capable, and ethically grounded by integrating inner development with systemic transformation. Drawing on behavioural science, developmental psychology, biopsychology, neohumanist philosophy, and real-world leadership stories, it argues that many leadership failures stem less from skill deficits than from unexamined habits, fear-based responses, and organisational…
Dynasties and Sages, Demons and Sadvipras: Using Macrohistory to Navigate the Crossroads of Time
Sohail Inayatullah Abstract: This essay explores the transformative potential of macrohistory by engaging three Asia based civilizational thinkers—Sima Qian, Ibn Khaldun, and P.R. Sarkar—in a comparative dialogue on historical cycles and the role of leadership in creating significant change. Drawing from Chinese, Islamic, and Indic traditions, it examines how virtue (te), social cohesion (asabiyya), and…
Sadvipra Leadership in a Technofeudal Age: A Neohumanist CLA of Artificial Intelligence
Aslı Şimşek Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) remains at an early stage of integration into organizational life. Yet even in this formative period, it is already shaping imaginaries, influencing strategies, and amplifying emerging systemic dynamics. One of these is what scholars describe as technofeudalism (Durand, 2023) an evolving political-economic order where digital platforms consolidate control, extract…
The Sadvipra as a Neohumanist Archetype: A Singular Perspective
Ralph Mercer Context: The use of a perspective piece provides the narrative flexibility to open a dialogue on how the Sadvipra functions as a philosophical allegory within Neohumanist thought, and why that positioning exposes a pathway for the Sadvipra to adapt to the accelerating entanglement of social, ecological, and technological systems that demand continuous reinterpretation….