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Leadership for an Age of WisdomIntroduction and Overview

Leadership for an Age of Wisdom: Introduction and Overview [As the experience of our world has become more chaotic, chaos our understanding about leadershipleadershipexpectations is beginning to changechange. The impact of relentless and indiscriminate change has accentuated the importance of considering not only the contextcontext but also the person, the selfself, of the leader. In particular, key writers in the field of leadership are now acknowledging the importance of the leader being able to act instinctively and intuitively to the unique demands of their immediate environment. While this chapter strongly supports the sentiments expressed by authors seeking an urgent reconceptualisationre-conceptualisation of our understandingunderstanding of leadershipleadership, it also goes beyond this goal. This chapter explains how it is necessary to reconstruct, rather than just reconceptualise, reconstruction our understanding of leadership. Reconceptualisation only calls for a shift in our cognitive thinkingthinking while a reconstruction challenges our fundamental valuesvalues and beliefsbeliefs. If we want to align thinking with acting, then we must change values and beliefs, and this demands that we reconstruct, and not just reconceptualise, our understanding of leadership.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Leadership for an Age of WisdomIntroduction and Overview

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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
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978-90-481-2995-9
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1 –8
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10.1007/978-90-481-2996-6_1
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[As the experience of our world has become more chaotic, chaos our understanding about leadershipleadershipexpectations is beginning to changechange. The impact of relentless and indiscriminate change has accentuated the importance of considering not only the contextcontext but also the person, the selfself, of the leader. In particular, key writers in the field of leadership are now acknowledging the importance of the leader being able to act instinctively and intuitively to the unique demands of their immediate environment. While this chapter strongly supports the sentiments expressed by authors seeking an urgent reconceptualisationre-conceptualisation of our understandingunderstanding of leadershipleadership, it also goes beyond this goal. This chapter explains how it is necessary to reconstruct, rather than just reconceptualise, reconstruction our understanding of leadership. Reconceptualisation only calls for a shift in our cognitive thinkingthinking while a reconstruction challenges our fundamental valuesvalues and beliefsbeliefs. If we want to align thinking with acting, then we must change values and beliefs, and this demands that we reconstruct, and not just reconceptualise, our understanding of leadership.]

Published: Aug 21, 2009

Keywords: Excessive Demand; Leadership Theory; Leadership Practice; Leadership Sustainability; Unique Demand

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