TY  - BOOK
AU  - Intezari,Ali
AU  - Spiller,Chellie
AU  - Yang,Shih-ying
TI  - Practical wisdom, leadership and culture: indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern perspectives 
T2  - The practical wisdom in leadership and organization series
SN  - 9780429055508
AV  - HM1261 
U1  - 303.34 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Wisdom
KW  - Organizational sociology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 	Introduction: Introducing "Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture: Indigenous, Asian, and Middle-Eastern Perspectives";Section I: The Indigenous Perspective;Chapter 1: Ecological Sustainability and Practical Wisdom from the Maasai and Hadza Peoples in East Africa;Chapter 2: The Wisdom of Inclusion: Maori leadership and management practices that make a world of difference; Chapter 3: The Wisdom of Differentiating between Indigenous Leader and Indigenous Leadership;Chapter 4: Native American Transplanar Wisdom: A Pragmatic View and Application; Chapter 5: Conceptions of Wisdom in Rural Uganda: A Different View of What's Important in Life;Section II: The Asian Perspective;Chapter 6: Fostering Contemplative and Spiritual Growth: Revisiting Confucianism and Wisdom Learned from T'oegye Yi Hwang for Educators;Chapter 7: Personal Wisdom as Reflected in the Vietnamese Classic Literature: The Tale of Kieu;Chapter 8: On Endeavor-based Wisdom: An East Asian Confucian Perspective in a Polycultural World;Chapter 9: Wisdom: A Philippine Perspective;Section III: The Middle Eastern Perspective;Chapter 10: Practical Wisdom in Ancient Iran;Chapter 11: The Concept of Wisdom in the Arab-Islamic Traditions;Chapter 12: The Wisdom of Good Thought and Deed: The Persian Perspective
N2  - "This book underlines the importance of developing a poly-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of practical wisdom in today's 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 multi-faceted 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 prove a more critical and practical insight into how to apply practical wisdom in contemporary poly-cultural environment"--
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