In Search Of Great Leadership – Wisdom Discovered
According to the wisdom literature, learning from important and meaningful life experiences can foster wisdom. Leading others is one such experience. Wisdom can be gathered. Wisdom can be learned or gained. Wisdom cannot be taught. Wise people have accurate, perceptive insights into human behavior and understand how things work and have learned what they know from real life experience, not from academic study. As they succeed and fail, the most attentive of them learn from the results. The history of business is thus the story of entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and employees, lurching from one experimental answer to another. They gain expertise and acumen, and profits and revenues, and, along the way, add to the theory of management. And most importantly, they are prepared to “give back” by openly sharing their authentic “wisdom of experience.”
Not long ago, we reached out to a select group of seasoned leadership professionals seeking answers to a series of ten questions (see our above Article) – all in an effort to gain authentic insights into a singular, profound question:
How Do You Become A Great Leader?
What follows here are highlights of an extraordinary collection of priceless “lessons learned” gleaned from their remarkable “in the trenches,” real-life experience. Grab your coffee, take a long break and capture some genuine “wisdom of the ages” as you stroll through this invaluable career dossier. Keep it as a handy reference. And then pay it forward by sharing this with your colleagues. Only then will you be on the long and winding road to becoming a Great Leader. We proudly share with you the remarkable results of our Quest:
In Search Of Great Leadership – Wisdom Discovered
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Our sincere thanks to Margaretta Noonan, Mark Deterding, Steve DiGioia, Kim Shepherd, Mark A. Cohen, Debbie Ruston, Christine Andola, Bharat Mathur, Andre van Heerdon, Liz Stincilli, Chris Pehura, Ron Fehr, Sandy Chernoff, Melinda Fouts, Len Bernat, Ken Vincent, and Warren Pielak for their insightful contributions to this Article.
Cardiovascular Technologist at Marietta Memorial Hospital
7yWe do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness. - Marcel Proust Wisdom comes from a complete immersion into the journey and your surroundings. It comes form an awareness of yourself and your emotional reaction, it comes from awareness of the sights and sounds of the environment - the howls of the wolf, the roar of the waves of the water. Wisdom comes from freedom of new learning and dismissal of the old perceptions and thoughts of those things that restrict our learning.
Short Stories, Poetry, Storytelling, And Photography.
7yA wealth of wisdom. Thank you Dennis.