[...]... efficiency and effectiveness usually overwhelms the attention and physical energies of the leader However, seeing to the long-term adaptation and survival of the organization remains the most important aspect of the job of leadership Most leaders chronically complain of the lack of time and energy they have to actually think about the long-term consequences of their actions and the real futures of their... subject of study for as long as humans have been aware of the necessity to make difficult choices Metaphysically, the search for wisdom can be dated as early as the Book of Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve The devil himself tempts the mother of all humans with the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil The consumption of the fruit leads Eve to share it with Adam, and through that act they discover... develop them should have an extensive and fundamental grasp of the challenges of these offices and an understanding of how difficult it is for leaders to make and implement wise choices even under the best of circumstances Hannibal, inheritor of his father's mantle and burning inside with a long-declared oath of hatred, wanted to end the threat to and humiliation of his people He and the elders of his... about the roots and practices of wisdom have raged for millennia For the ancients, the medievalists, the Renaissance explorers, and the preindustrialists, the fundamental distinctions made by Aristotle and Plato formed the foundation of virtually all of the discussions On the one hand, there is the knowledge of things divine and absolute, what we have traditionally understood as in the realm of God, of. .. Japan, and India; and of radically different forms of government, technology, and culture Isabella supported all four of Columbus's trips to the Americas and the establishment of new colonies there despite the initial disappointments of not finding a route to the Indies or major discoveries of gold and silver When she heard of the atrocities committed against the native tribes of the Caribbean Islands,... 1, the system of the organization; Domain 2, the mediated system of behavior and relationships; Domain 3, the executive him- or herself; Domain 4, the operation of human wisdom itself; Domain 5, explicit and implicit barriers to the emergence of wisdom that may be present in or absent from the other domains; and Domain 6, the environments domain Executive Wisdom is depicted in the center circle of the. .. because they illustrate my central thesis Executives and leaders of organizations, including nationstates and human empires, are required by their offices, their roles, and their times to make and execute decisions that often have the most profound consequences for themselves, their enterprises, and human history I believe that those who have such roles and responsibilities and those who support and help... both that they are naked and that they need to hide from God In short, knowledge of good and evil leads them to be self-aware, to know that they have gone against the command of God, and to feel shame and guilt Within the Judeo-Christian—Islamic tradition, the progressive development of human culture can be traced to these mythological events and to the ability of humans to reason and decide for themselves... time, they petitioned Pope Sixtus IV of Rome to start the Inquisition as a way of protecting themselves from the influence of Spanish Jews Isabella and Ferdinand waged war against the Moors for 10 years and finally defeated and expelled them at the battle for Granada in January of 1492 In March of that year, they ordered the approximately 170,000 Jewish inhabitants of Spain to leave the country, thereby... called the "wisdom paradigm," which he suggested moves leadership practice away from the predictability of Cartesian and Newtonian models and toward the uncertainty of extremely complex, multidimensional, chaos theory Similarly, Small (2004) called for the introduction of the study of some of the philosophical classics and the recent findings of scientific psychology on the development and expression of . Image: Table of Contents of: Executive wisdom: Coaching and the emergence of virtuous leaders. Preface Introduction Leaders as Idiots and Geniuses. exploitation and eradication of most of the native inhabitants of the new lands. Over the course of the next 12 years, she and her husband Ferdinand