Wisdom principles as a meta-theoretical basis for evaluating leadership

McKenna, Bernard; Rooney, David; Boal, Kimberley B.

doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.01.013

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“…Moreover, wisdom accepts the complex, cuts through ambiguity, and derives its energy from the tensions and uncertainties of a complex world. In short, the wise finds the best possible resolutions in complex and difficult situations when others do not; this may even mean choosing the best "bad" decision in diabolical situations (McKenna et al, 2009) .…”

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Advocating mediation as a powerful noncoercive, nonviolent, and nonbinding form of conflict intervention, school administrators and corporate managers are bound to mediate conflict before it escalates to formal litigation in court. Guided by the principle of bracketing or reductions to come up with themes through reading and rereading of texts and member-checking procedures, this phenomenological paper has surfaced triad powers of conflict mediation as exercised by 10 select school administrators of Philippine Schools Overseas in the Middle East particularly in The United Arab Emirates, The Sultanate of Oman and The State of Qatar. These include power productive compassion, power of proactive disposition and power of progressive decision which enabled them to mediate conflict at their peak state of reflective equilibrium. Amass of ways to resolving conflicts is placed on records but these triad powers on conflict mediation provide portal to probing that conflict mediation is both a science and an art the extent to which school leaders must exercise equilibrium between mind and heart to avoid biased decision, to strengthen working relationship, and to achieve work productivity at the work place.

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“…For example, McKenna et al ( 2009 ) note that wise leaders use reasoned and careful observation, are practical and oriented toward everyday life (which, as noted above, Aristotle called phronesis ), have cognitive complexity and capacity to deal with complex and ambiguous environments, and are rational and deep thinkers who seek out facts and their origins, characteristics. Werhane ( 2002 ) defi nes systems thinking as "conceiving the system as a whole with interdependent elements, subsystems, and networks of relationships and patterns of interaction."…”

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“…This lack of appreciation and understanding of the components of wisdom and particularly how to educate for wisdom is problematic in our increasingly complex, over-populated, and interconnected world. In the 'real' world, it is relatively easy to demonstrate the need for greater wisdom-if not its practice.Further, far too little consideration is given to how or even if wise and responsible leaders can be developed (though see Boal and Hooijberg 2001 ;McKenna et al 2009 )-that is, whether teaching for wisdom is even possible, and, if so, what it would take to do so. Using as the foundation an argument that wisdom exists when three foundational elements of philosophy-the good, the true, and the beautifuldiscussed here as moral imagination (the good), systems understanding (the true), and aesthetic sensibility (the beautiful), are integrated in a person (see Waddock 2010 ), I will explore what wisdom means and briefl y examine some of the implications of that defi nition for learning.…”

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Wisdom and Responsible Leadership: Aesthetic Sensibility, Moral Imagination, and Systems Thinking

Waddock

2013

Issues in Business Ethics

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The world needs wise leaders, but wisdom is clearly in short supply these days if the state of the world is any evidence. Just think of climate change, ecological damages done by modern industrial and agricultural practices, and collapsing and unfair mortgage and fi nancial markets, not to mention the growing gap between rich and poor, as examples. But generally, the need for wisdom in leaders and managers, which is defi ned by Ackoff ( Refl ections 1(1): [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] 1999) as the capacity to think through the (short and long-term) consequences of actions, is under-appreciated. Using as a basis the argument that wisdom exists when three components-moral imagination (the good), systems understanding (the true), and aesthetic sensibility (the beautiful) are present (Waddock, Journal of Business Ethics Education 7: 177-196, 2010), I explore the implications of this defi nition for teaching future leaders to be both wise and ethical in their decision making and actions. Keywords Wisdom • Moral imagination • Systems • Aesthetics • Leadership IntroductionWise men, wise women-wise people who can make considered decisions with the greater good fi rmly kept in mind, are in short supply. Yet as our damaged world attests, they are needed more than ever. Today the world needs responsible leaders with the capacity that Ackoff defi ned as wisdom to think and "see" through the consequences of actions, not just knowledge or risk-taking ability (Ackoff 1999 ). To this capacity, we add a sense of equity with a long-term, indeed even a planetary, perspective that takes many needs and interests of the Earth and its other living beings into consideration, as well as an appreciation of the system as a whole, including its design elements of human-created systems. Still, all we need to do is look around to see plenty of evidence that wisdom-and responsible leadership-is in rather short supply these days.Just think of the state of the world, bringing into consideration issues like climate change, the ecological damages done by modern industrial and agricultural practices, the pervasive evidence of hunger in some parts of the world combined with a growing obesity epidemic in others that is linked to what and how we eat. Consider collapsing state and national budgets, and unfair and unethical mortgage practices, extraordinary rates of housing foreclosure, and a fi nancial system that continues to make our fi nancial markets into little more than a global gambling casino for the wealthy at the expense of the poor, not to mention the growing gap between rich and poor. The manifold issues facing societies and the planet today offer ample evidence of the lack of wisdom among those who lead today in business or in other realms.Generally, the need for wisdom in leaders and managers is vastly under-appreciated in management research and teaching, as well as practice. One of the most notable theories of wisdom, the 'balance theory of wisdom' offered by Sternberg ( 1998Sternberg ( , 2001Sternberg ( , 2004, ...

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“…It included i information [3,4], intelligent [5,6], knowledge [7,8], expert [9,10] and decision support [15,16,[18][19][20][21] systems, plus developed multiple criteria methods (CODEC, COPRAS, DUMA and DAM [18,19]. The purpose was to determine the most efficient Advisory, Negotiation and Intelligent Decision Support System for Leadership Analysis (ANDES) to analyze a leader's life cycle.…”

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Advisory, Negotiation and Intelligent Decision Support System for Leadership Analysis

Gudauskas

Budryte

Kaklauskas

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INT J COMPUT COMMUN

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The development of the Leader Model for quantitative and qualitative analyses began with the goal of integrating managerial, organizational, technical, technological, economic, legal/regulatory, innovative, social, cultural, ethical, psychological, religious, ethnic and other aspects involved in the process of a leaders life cycle. The need to determine the most efficient life cycle of a leader led to the development of the Advisory, Negotiation and Intelligent DEcision support System for Leadership Analysis (ANDES). The objective of the authors of this work for integrating text analytics, advisory, negotiation and decision support systems is to improve the quality and efficiency of intelligent decision-making regarding a leaders life cycle. This ANDES consists of an intelligent database, database management system, model-base, model-base management system and user interface.

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Wisdom principles as a meta-theoretical basis for evaluating leadership

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