Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World

Insights from 17 Language Cultures

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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This innovative book excavates hidden wisdoms from 17 diverse language cultures around the world, from Arabic and British-English to Russian and Swahili. Further, it explores their critical insights for global leadership, extrapolating important lessons on group dynamics, decision-making, conflict management, motivation, ethics, communication, diversity, strategy, and organizational effectiveness.Integrating an international team of experts, Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World is based on the premise that languages, and especially hard-to-translate terms, reveal assumptions, values, and praxes that are often misread outside of regional contexts. Each chapter uses examples from local leaders and businesses to scrutinize how key language terms around wisdom reflect and guide many aspects of management and organization, including cognition, emotion, moral standards, mission and vision, collaboration, and execution. Ultimately, the book showcases how these ‘wisdoms of the world’ enhance leadership literacy and bridge global environments, pursuing a sustainably positive impact while navigating the complexities of international business and cross-cultural management.Students and academics seeking to navigate complexities and challenges in business management, leadership, ethics and trust, climate action, and diversity and inclusion will find this an invigorating read. The strategies and methods for incorporating local wisdoms are also highly beneficial to professionals in media and communication, education, diplomacy, and public policy.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-11
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035373970

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ContentsPreface xi1 Introduction: global leadership and wisdoms of the world 1Eric H. Kessler and Diana J. Wong-MingJi2 Indigenous wisdom and insights for global leaders: tapuand leadership 19Katene Eruera, Edwina Pio and Peter Mcghee3 Swahili wisdom and insights for global leaders: a complexjourney of indigenous to global multicultural integration 35Aloysius Newenham Kahindi and Diana J. Wong-MingJi4 Hindi wisdom and insights for global leaders: Indianconceptualization of wisdom – emic perspective andlessons for global leadership 49Ankita Sharma and Abhishek Sharma5 Hebrew wisdom for global leaders: innovation leadershipin the Hebrew language and culture 65Nurit Nahum and Timur Uman6 Mainland Chinese wisdom for global leaders: diversity ofmany in one 77Diana J. Wong-MingJi7 Non-mainland Chinese wisdom for global leaders: the wayConfucius would lead – wisdom displayed by elementaryschool principals who transformed their schools and communities 93Shih-ying Yang, Ming-Dih Lin and Hao-Jun Fan8 Arabic wisdom for global leaders: an introspect intonotions of wisdom in the Holy Quran 109Shrouk Abdelnaeim, Youmna Soliman El-Sherbiny andNoha El-bassiouny9 British-English wisdom for global leaders: a language thatseparates and stratifies, and thereby sustains the status of(some) leaders 125Alexandra Jolly and Jonathan Gosling10 American-English wisdom for global leaders: the rock ‘n’roll quarterback 141Eric H. Kessler11 French wisdom for global leaders: from outsider to insider 156Mithun Mridha and Imran Chowdhury12 Spanish wisdom for global leaders: examining the‘paternalismo benevolente’ of Lorenzo Servitje, founder ofMexican Grupo Bimbo 170Anabella Davila13 Russian wisdom for global leaders: mind the language! 188Andrei Kuznetsov and Olga Kuznetsova14 Farsi wisdom for global leaders: the Iranian art of tārof –winning by gaining the lower hand 202Afsaneh Nahavandi15 Korean wisdom for global leaders: the concept of seulgiand leadership in the “glocalized” world 216HyunHui Kim16 German wisdom for global leaders: weisheit – perspectiveson selected German terms for wise leadership 230Wendelin Küpers17 Finnish wisdom for global leaders: the Finnish constructof sisu as a way of life and leadership founded in a deeppractice of wisdom 251Emilia Elisabet Lahti and Eeva K. Kallio18 Japanese wisdom for global leaders: wisdom as a way oflife in Japan 265Hirotaka TakeuchiEpilogue: poem – a wisdom tree for global leaders 277

‘But what is a wise leader? In Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World, Kessler and Wong-MingJi have addressed this question in an exciting and important new book, acknowledging and documenting that there is not just one way to be a wise leader. Across 17 chapters they have assembled authors who write about wisdom in leadership in different countries ranging from the West to the East, spanning a wide range of societal and cultural traditions and practices. This book can serve as an important basic source of fundamental information about the nature of wisdom around the world and how these different forms of wisdom can serve leadership across a wide range of different countries.’