Wisdom & Leadership

Wisdom is the way we incorporate our values into our decision making process and it is our values that determine the way we define that critical word quality. The word quality can also be seen as another way of distinguishing process from change. Not all change is progress and it is our values that ultimately determine our priorities. It is these priorities that then become the criteria we use to distinguish between change and progress. Decisions taken today are driven by our visions of tomorrow and based on what we learned yesterday. This basic rule applies to all decisions, irrespective of size. Every time we take any decision we are involved in some element of leadership but the bigger the decision the more critical our leadership credentials become. Wisdom is often meant as the ability and desire to make choices that can gain approval in a long-term examination by many people. In this sense, to label a choice wise implies that the action or inaction was strategically correct when judged by widely-held values. To acknowledge the existence of wisdom assumes order and absolute. Wisdom is recognizing the difference between good and evil and choosing what is good. To acknowledge wisdom is also to acknowledge consequences for unwise or foolish choices. As with all decisions, a wise decision must be made with incomplete information. But to act wisely, a sage must plan a reasonable future situation, desire the outcome to be broadly beneficial, and then act. A standard philosophical definition says that wisdom consists of making the best use of available knowledge. "Effective learning is the only sustainable competitive advantage". Leadership has been described as a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task" Leadership is "organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal". The leader may or may not have any formal authority. Studies of leadership have produced theories involving traits,[2] situational interaction, function, behavior, power, vision and values,[3] charisma, and intelligence, among others. Somebody whom people follow: somebody who guides or directs others. Base on this explanations, leader needs wisdom to have the ability to make a better use of knowledge. They are related to each other in different kinds of leading the people. Specially in decision makings, goal setting and motivating the people.

ASSIGNMENT IN PHILOSOPHY 1 LEADERSHIP AND WISDOM