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Importance Of Wisdom In Leadership

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Despite the lack of agreement upon a widely acceptable definition of wisdom, researchers agree on the importance of wisdom to the understanding of leadership (Bennis, 2007). Given this rising importance, which is central to the topic of the present paper, interactions between wisdom and leadership deserve to be discussed. In a seminal contribution, Yang (2011) conducted an extensive literature review about the relations of leadership and wisdom rooted in psychological, sociological and managerial analyses; this review yielded three major conclusions: wisdom is an essential component of outstanding leadership; wisdom is an outcome of learning from leadership experience; and wisdom can be displayed through leadership. Based on Yang’s (2011) study, …show more content…

In fact, wisdom equates with relativistic and dialectical reasoning, which constitute advanced cognitive capabilities developed only in adulthood upon various real-world experiences (Labouvie-Vief, 2000). The human cognitive complexity begins with processing and producing data, information and knowledge until it attains wisdom, which represents the highest degree of the cognitive complexity (Bellinger, Castro and Mills, 2000). Wisdom is also described as a dynamic process of regular readjustment, restructuring, and rebuilding of subtle capabilities of judging and knowing (Srivastva and Cooperrider, 1998) as well as a process of refined judgement of unusual and changing patterns in the organizational life (Malan and Kriger, 1998). It is worth noting that leadership experiences constitute adequate opportunities for leaders to acquire wisdom given the various human affairs to which leaders are exposed (Smith, Staudinger, & Baltes, …show more content…

These four categories contribute to a thorough understanding of wise leadership processes and outcomes. Therefore, these four manifestations of wise leadership will be taken into account in the process of generating dimensions and items for the wise leadership scale in the present study. This perspective is designed to integrate all views and streams on wisdom by including the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and virtuous aspects of leaders in order to reflect a balance between leaders’ character, intellect and action. All these aspects are vital to our understanding of wise

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