THE WISDOM MODEL OF LEADERSHIP

Phuoc D. Nguyen

Schein (2010) defines “The stages of learning/change included: Stage 1 – Unfreezing the motivation to change; Stage 2 – Learning new concepts, new meaning for old concepts, and new standards for judgment; Stage 3 – Internalizing new concepts, meaning, and standards” (p. 300). Chatterjee (2006) presents four shared values in Chatterjee and Kaipa’s (2000) Wisdom Model of Leadership (WML) that leadership co-ordinates these four shared values and is the center of the model, the four shared values may be applied and extended to staff. Sternberg (2007) discusses a Systems Model of Leadership (WICS) includes the elements of creativity, intelligence, and wisdom. He classifies types of creative leadership included conceptual replication, redefinition, forward increment, advance increment, redirection, reconstruction and redirection, re-initiation, and synthesis; types of intelligence leadership include academic intelligence and practical intelligence; and types of wisdom leadership. Sternberg (2003) analyzes deeply the element of practical intelligence including sub-elements of measuring tacit knowledge, tacit knowledge and experience, tacit knowledge and general cognitive ability, tacit knowledge and performance, additional findings regarding tacit knowledge, and tacit knowledge and leadership.

It is suggested to integrate the Wisdom Model of Leadership into Schein’s (2010) Conceptual Model for Managed Culture Change from stage 2 because Schein’s model only included the stages of learning but did not describe stages of culture change. Specifically, integrate WML’s shared values of the right knowledge into Schein’s model’s stage 2 and stage 3. Additionally, integrate WICS’s elements of practical intelligence’s sub-elements of measuring tacit knowledge, tacit knowledge and experience, tacit knowledge and general cognitive ability, tacit knowledge and performance, additional findings regarding tacit knowledge, and tacit knowledge and leadership into Schein’s model’s stage 2 and stage 3 with WML’s share value of right knowledge together. Moreover, integrate WICS’s element of wisdom into Schein’s model’s stage 2 and stage 3 with WML’s shared value of right knowledge. Furthermore, WML’s shared values of the right way to transform and stay alive, the right way to organize, and the right action into phase 4 of the extended Schein’s model. Finally, integrate WICS’s types of creative leadership’s conceptual replication, redefinition, forward increment, advance increment, redirection, reconstruction and redirection, re-initiation, and synthesis into phase 5 of the extended Schein’s model. This is a new model of culture learning/change and shared values integration.