1st Edition
Collaborative Wisdom From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership
Part 1 Who Needs Wisdom? Wisdom and leadership. Understanding practical wisdom. Part 2 Wisdom and Leadership Practice Operational leadership: the development of credibility and trust. Practically wise operational leadership: fundamental principles and perspectives. Operational leadership imperatives. Part 3 Practical and Collaborative Wisdom within a Global Leadership Context Global leadership perspectives and capabilities. Resolving the 'onion skin' issue. Part 4 Where do I Start? I believe: where do I join?
Biography
Dr Greg Park is Managing Director of PCM Consulting, specializing on leading within cross-border and global contexts and a principal of Oxford Strategic Consulting. Greg is a guest speaker in International Strategic Leadership and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, where he advises on a number of expert panels.
’Greg Park's book Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership engagingly connects the world of the practitioner to relevant scholarly concepts in this welcome practical contribution to effective operational leadership. Moreover, it is particularly timely within the context of today's increasing questioning of prevailing leadership values, principles, and practices. It does so by clearly illustrating how "best in class" organisational performance can be consistent with universal values and communal principles, through the application of practical and collaborative wisdom. I warmly recommend this thought-provoking, sometimes contentious, and always insightful book which replaces the prevailing emphasis on smart thinking with an emphasis upon the wise in the process of the operational leadership decision-making process.’Patrick C McEvoy, Former Chairman, K&H Bank, Hungary and former Chief Executive and Chairman, IIB Bank plc, Ireland 'Dr Greg Park has produced a highly readable and useful account of what ethical collaborative wisdom is and its importance to strategic leadership of the modern enterprise. In doing so, he provides many deep insights into leadership and management based upon research and over thirty years of international business experience. I expect his advocacy of soft hearted, hard headed pragmatism will resonate with managers, post experience business students and leaders alike. I very much enjoyed this book.' Professor Patrick C. Flood, Dublin City University Business School, Ireland ’It seems relatively rare to come across a truly thoughtful work on operational leadership...this book represents an expansive approach to a very hardcore issue in business - operational leadership. I read this book with hope, hope for the future of our collective thinking and action in relation to organized human systems. I believe it represents the kind of thinking and perspectives on development that is ready to c
