From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading with Wisdom
By Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou
Head: (3.5 out of 5)
Heart: (5 out of 5)
Leadership Applicability: (5 out of 5)
As any leader knows, it takes smarts to excel in business. Exhibiting strengths in strategy, execution or innovation, for example, can lead to a climb up the corporate ladder. Almost all smart leaders have a tendency to play to their strengths. After all, success in business comes from understanding and exploiting them. But over time, through conditioning, a limited perspective of the world develops which shapes our motivation, decisions and action. This leaves little room for recognizing, developing and integrating the broader spectrum of leadership qualities.
As the complexities of business make it more challenging for leaders to attain success and a sense of fulfillment, the authors contend leaders need to move beyond smartness in order to have both. Leaders need to leverage their smartness for a higher purpose. This is wise leadership.
In this book, the authors Prasad Kaipa, a Silicon Valley CEO advisor and coach, and Navi Radjou, a Silicon Valley innovation and leadership strategist, explore practical wisdom and break down the six leadership capabilities that leaders can use to cultivate wise leadership and sustain success:
- Discover your noble purpose
- Act authentically and appropriately
- Learn when to lead and when to let others lead
- Decide with discernment
- Know when to hold on and when to let go
- Cultivate enlightened self-interest
Filled with tools, a framework and real-life examples of smart, wise leaders, the book will show leaders how to attain wise leadership. The contents help leaders see where they are in their leadership journey and monitor their progress along the way.
Leaders who want to achieve personal growth and sustain personal, organizational and societal success will want to read this book. Buy it.