Ali Intezari (editor) - Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture: Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern Perspectives

Despite the growing attention towards the importance of practical wisdom in business today, little research has been done about the concept of practical wisdom in the Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern traditions. Contemporary studies of wisdom are dominated by the philosophical traditions of Western thought, which is based on the ancient Greek concepts of wisdom. Much less is known about how practical wisdom, as illuminated by these other traditions, can be implemented in todays organizational settings. This book thus fills an important gap in understanding wisdom and how it is applied in a poly-cultural world.

Wisdom is culturally bound. Wisdom is poly-cultural and interweaves individuality and communality. Practical wisdom is inextricably connected to many needs of contemporary personal and professional life. Moreover, the increasingly growing poly-culturality around the world requires a better understanding of how practical wisdom is understood in different cultures and traditions. Accordingly, there is a need for a) poly-cultural understanding of the concept of wisdom and b) the role of practical wisdom in a world crying out for wisdom.

This book underlines the importance of developing a poly-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of practical wisdom in todays complex environment. The book offers significant insight into the implications of the non-Western traditions of wisdom and how such an understanding of the non-Western traditions can help us better and more critically understand and appropriately address new multifaceted complex emerging phenomena. While the Western traditions offer valuable insight into the implication of wisdom in modern life, an integrated view that brings together the Western and non-Western traditions can provide a more critical and practical insight into how to apply practical wisdom in a contemporary poly-cultural environment.

Ali Intezari is a lecturer at UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Chellie Spiller is a professor at the Waikato University, New Zealand.

Shih-ying Yang is a professor and researcher in psychology at the National Chi Nan University, Taiwan.

Series Editors:

WendelinKpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Karlshochschule International University, Germany.

DavidPauleen is an Associate Professor of Business Information Systems at Massey University, New Zealand.

The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series provides a platform for authors to articulate wiser ways of managing and leading and of reassessing both practice within organizational settings and organizational research. Books in this series focus on the art and practice of inquiry and reflexivity and explicitly connect with challenges and issues of praxis in the field of organization and management, be that academic research or in situ management practice. Rather than offering closure and final answers, contributions to this series invite further critical inquiry, cross-disciplinary conversations and explorations. The aim is to engage authors and readers students, academics and practitioners alike in inspiring, reflexive and critical dialogue. By thus engaging readers, we hope that these books play an important role in informing, teaching and learning in educational contexts and public forums as well as among practitioners and in management boardrooms.

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Wisdom, Analytics and Wicked Problems
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Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture
Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern Perspectives
Edited by Ali Intezari, Chellie Spiller and Shih-Ying Yang

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ThePractical-Wisdom-in-Leadership-and-Organization-Series/book-series/WISDOM

Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern Perspectives

Edited byAliIntezari,ChellieSpillerandShih-yingYang

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Intezari, Ali, editor. | Spiller, Chellie, editor. | Yang, Shih-ying
(Psychologist), editor.
Title: Practical wisdom, leadership and culture: indigenous, Asian and
Middle-Eastern perspectives / edited by Ali Intezari, Chellie Spiller
and Shih-ying Yang.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. |
Series: The practical wisdom in leadership and organization series |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020005823 (print) | LCCN 2020005824 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367151782 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429055508 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: LeadershipCross-cultural studies. |
WisdomCross-cultural studies. |
Organizational sociologyCross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC HM1261 .P727 2020 (print) |
LCC HM1261 (ebook) | DDC 303.3/4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005823
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005824

ISBN: 978-0-367-15178-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-05550-8 (ebk)

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