From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading with Wisdom

CHAPTER EIGHT

Cocreate a Field of Wise Leadership

Find Your Wisdom Logic

It is our belief, based on experience, that you can become an effective and wise leader by developing the six leadership capabilities we have identified and discussed: perspective, action orientation, role clarity, decision logic, fortitude, and motivation. These capabilities are separate but also interdependent elements: if you develop them together, each leveraging the power of the others, you can accelerate your wise leadership journey. When you integrate some or all of these capabilities into a larger whole, you will have created your own wisdom logic—that is, your unique, authentic path to wise leadership.

Many leaders grow into one or two capabilities (usually those ...