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Leadership for an Age of WisdomWisdomwisdom-Led Leadershipleadership

Leadership for an Age of Wisdom: Wisdomwisdom-Led Leadershipleadership [What is wisdomwisdom? Or, more particularly, what is wisdom-led leadership? This chapter takes up the challenge of answering these questions by initially describing in a clear, comprehensive, and compelling manner the nature, characteristics, and prerequisites of leadership that is wisdom ledleadership. Here it is argued that the role of the leader’s consciousness is pivotal to the essence of wisdom. Hence, this chapter describes in detail the function and purpose of human consciousness in forming wisdom. However, if everyone’s consciousness is intrinsically individualistic, how can there be any consistency and continuity in any form of leadership that is influenced by it? How can we trust our leaders? To this end, this chapter goes on to argue that although leaders’ level of consciousness is integral to their application of wisdom to their leadership responsibilities, such wisdomwisdom-led leaders achieve trustworthiness through a natural commitment to authenticityauthenticity and moralmoral integritymoral integrity. Authenticity is described as being true to the valuesvalues, motivesmotives, and beliefsbeliefs that the leader really wants to live by. As such, authenticity is about achieving an inner victory over selfself-deception, whereas moral integrityintegrity is described as about instinctively and consistently doing what is right for the goodgood of others in the absence of incentives or sanctions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Leadership for an Age of WisdomWisdomwisdom-Led Leadershipleadership

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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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17 –33
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10.1007/978-90-481-2996-6_3
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[What is wisdomwisdom? Or, more particularly, what is wisdom-led leadership? This chapter takes up the challenge of answering these questions by initially describing in a clear, comprehensive, and compelling manner the nature, characteristics, and prerequisites of leadership that is wisdom ledleadership. Here it is argued that the role of the leader’s consciousness is pivotal to the essence of wisdom. Hence, this chapter describes in detail the function and purpose of human consciousness in forming wisdom. However, if everyone’s consciousness is intrinsically individualistic, how can there be any consistency and continuity in any form of leadership that is influenced by it? How can we trust our leaders? To this end, this chapter goes on to argue that although leaders’ level of consciousness is integral to their application of wisdom to their leadership responsibilities, such wisdomwisdom-led leaders achieve trustworthiness through a natural commitment to authenticityauthenticity and moralmoral integritymoral integrity. Authenticity is described as being true to the valuesvalues, motivesmotives, and beliefsbeliefs that the leader really wants to live by. As such, authenticity is about achieving an inner victory over selfself-deception, whereas moral integrityintegrity is described as about instinctively and consistently doing what is right for the goodgood of others in the absence of incentives or sanctions.]

Published: Aug 21, 2009

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Leadership Responsibility; Human Affair; Leadership Theory; Leadership Practice

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