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Leadership for an Age of WisdomOrganisational Development

Leadership for an Age of Wisdom: Organisational Development [While the realisation that we are living and working in an ever-changing, seemingly chaoticchaos world is uncontroversial, determining how to appropriately respond to the organisational challenges presented by this “new” world remains far less obvious and explicit. Thus, a consummate approach to organisational developmentorganisational development remains an ideal rather than a reality. This chapter features the approach of wisdom-wisdomled leadershipleadership to the inevitable and confronting demands of leading organisational changechange. This approach involves two key parts. First, it uses the approach of incorporationincorporation, integrationintegration, and transcendencetranscendence. In other words, a wisdom-led leadershipwisdom-led leadership approach to organisational developmentorganisational development incorporates and integrates existing organisational development best practice. It does not attempt in any way to suppress these practices. Secondly, the transcendent aspect of wisdom-led leadership’s approach to organisational development considers the role of human consciousnessconsciousness from both an individual and a collective perspective. Since much of the understandingunderstanding concerning individual consciousness has been previously discussed, this chapter simply restates the relevant parts as a means of emphasising their importance. More time is then taken to describe the concept of communal consciousness, interpersonal subjectivity, and how critically important it is for this to be addressed by the leader when leading organisational development or change. A conceptual framework, along with a practical example from its use in research, is provided to aid in understanding and suitably dealing with the communal consciousness dimension of organisational development.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Leadership for an Age of WisdomOrganisational Development

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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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115 –134
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10.1007/978-90-481-2996-6_8
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[While the realisation that we are living and working in an ever-changing, seemingly chaoticchaos world is uncontroversial, determining how to appropriately respond to the organisational challenges presented by this “new” world remains far less obvious and explicit. Thus, a consummate approach to organisational developmentorganisational development remains an ideal rather than a reality. This chapter features the approach of wisdom-wisdomled leadershipleadership to the inevitable and confronting demands of leading organisational changechange. This approach involves two key parts. First, it uses the approach of incorporationincorporation, integrationintegration, and transcendencetranscendence. In other words, a wisdom-led leadershipwisdom-led leadership approach to organisational developmentorganisational development incorporates and integrates existing organisational development best practice. It does not attempt in any way to suppress these practices. Secondly, the transcendent aspect of wisdom-led leadership’s approach to organisational development considers the role of human consciousnessconsciousness from both an individual and a collective perspective. Since much of the understandingunderstanding concerning individual consciousness has been previously discussed, this chapter simply restates the relevant parts as a means of emphasising their importance. More time is then taken to describe the concept of communal consciousness, interpersonal subjectivity, and how critically important it is for this to be addressed by the leader when leading organisational development or change. A conceptual framework, along with a practical example from its use in research, is provided to aid in understanding and suitably dealing with the communal consciousness dimension of organisational development.]

Published: Aug 21, 2009

Keywords: Organisational Development; Learning Organisation; Mission Statement; School Community; Individual Consciousness

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