Is Wise Leadership The Right Kind Of Leadership?
Recent research has shown how cultivating an inner dialogue can boost inner wisdom. It opens the mind to alternative perspectives and encourages objective distance and intellectual humility.
In turn this can lead us away from our biases, negativity, and stale assumptions and towards a deeper, more powerful mode of thinking.
So, First A Little Wisdom
“Wisdom comes when we call things by their proper name.”
What is wise leadership and how important is it right now?
Over the past few years related pieces have looked at and talked about leadership from all angles. This is based on wide experience and extensive work with leaders across multiple sectors, from the shop floor to the top-floor.
Most recently co-leadership, courageous leadership and extraordinary leadership have featured, and wise leadership is in part certainly about having the courage to choose a direction among complex and difficult options.
This requires a willingness to transcend the normal and the routine, with a strength of character to maintain a course of action when so much remains unknown, or simply unknowable.
I would contend though that it is also about being able to influence people to the extent…
