Prasad Kaipa - From smart to wise: acting and leading with wisdom

Table of Contents

More Praise for From Smart to Wise

With examples from todays best leaders, Kaipa and Radjou have created a practical guide for accelerating your own wise leadership development, a true competitive advantage in todays rapidly changing world. We can all benefit from the self-reflection that From Smart to Wise encourages. By defining our unique noble purpose, we can bring about meaningful change and progress in our companies, communities, and society.

Indra K. Nooyi, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.

Developing wisdom can turn a long and arduous trip into a compelling, sustainable, and inspiring leadership journey. Read this fascinating book and let it teach you the tools youll need to go from smart to wise!

Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times best-selling author, MOJO and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

From Smart to Wise is a practical and powerful book that reminds us of the ultimate destination of our leadership journeys: wisdom earned through experience and shared in service of others. Even better, Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou offer a step-by-step road map for getting there, complete with real-world examples sure to inspire and challenge us along the way.

John R. Ryan, president and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership

This extraordinary book takes the intangible concept of wisdom and brings it to life, giving it context and ways for us to practice wise leadership in our daily lives. Kaipa and Radjou show us how to connect with other leaders in todays interdependent world to cocreate a field of wise leadership. You must read From Smart to Wise. It is a journey worth taking.

Cynthia Cherrey, president, the International Leadership Association; vice president, Princeton University

Getting from smart to wise is the most important leadership challenge of the twenty-first century. Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou offer a guidebook to this transformation, one that any leader will find of great use.

Daniel Goleman, author, Emotional Intelligence

From Smart to Wise is a good example of what it talks about. It is wise, clear, and grounded in real experience. It reminds us that our humanity is the key to success in business, and also that a purpose greater than profit is needed to create a world that is fulfilling as well as productive.

Peter Block, author, Stewardship and Abundant Community

From Smart to Wise is a very timely and unique book. Kaipa and Radjou offer us a pathway to evolve from behaving smartly to acting and leading wisely, extending benefits of wise leadership not only to ourselves and our companies but also to our societies.

Jeff Smith, CEO and cofounder, LUNAR Design

From Smart to Wise is the book managers from all walks of life and in all institutions ought to read. Kaipa and Radjou credibly and convincingly make the point that smartness is no longer sufficient to be sustainably successful today and provide those interested in becoming wise leaders with a useful road map.

Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, chairman, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development

Ordinary organizations become extraordinary organizations when some wise leaders embrace the collective good and invite others to do the same. From Smart to Wise is a magnificent book about how to become a person of wisdom and influence.

Robert E. Quinn, professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; author, Deep Change

Kaipa and Radjou have spent most of their lives bringing the wisdom traditions to bear on the art of business. From Smart to Wise offers depth, context, and timeless tools to lift the mechanical into the noble, marrying the practical and the compassionatea rare, effective, uplifting companion.

Mark Nepo, best-selling author, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen and The Book of Awakening

From Smart to Wise is a game changer! Read it to find how to apply practical wisdom in your business. Use the framework in this book to create your own wise leadership road mapand you too can become a highly effective leader like Warren Buffett, Ratan Tata, and Alan Mulally.

Professor Theodore R. Malloch, Yale University; director, The Academy of Business in Society; and author, Doing Virtuous Business

Cover image: Thinkstock

Cover design: FaceoutStudio

Copyright 2013 by Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou. All rights reserved.

Published by Jossey-Bass

A Wiley Imprint

One Montgomery Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94104-4594www.josseybass.com

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600, or on the Web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, 201-748-6011, fax 201-748-6008, or online at www.wiley.com/go/permissions.

Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation. You should consult with a professional where appropriate. Neither the publisher nor author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. Readers should be aware that Internet Web sites offered as citations and/or sources for further information may have changed or disappeared between the time this was written and when it is read.

Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores. To contact Jossey-Bass directly call our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-956-7739, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3986, or fax 317-572-4002.

Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http://booksupport.wiley.com. For more information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com.

Library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Kaipa, Prasad, date.

From smart to wise : acting and leading with wisdom / Prasad Kaipa, Navi Radjou. First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-29620-2 (cloth); 978-1-118-33185-9 (ebk); 978-1-118-33407-2 (ebk); 978-1-118-33518-5 (ebk)

1. Leadership. 2. Wisdom. I. Radjou, Navi. II. Title.