Leadership convergence: The dawn of practical wisdom

Abstract

Technological savvy people know that to get the most out of the latest software program, it is necessary to have the appropriate hardware architecture with which to maximize its use. Simply put, the effectiveness of the most robust software without the adequate hardware is disappointing. Equally, leaders who solely focus on developing leadership competencies without upgrading their thinking will fail to adapt to the rapidly changing business environment. Upgrading thinking means that leaders can no longer rely on logic alone to resolve the current complex systemic problems organizations face. Logic alone will not help humanity survive the current planetary voracious exploitation. The chapter suggests there is a scientific approach that enhances the interplay of three human primary neural biological centers (i.e., cerebral, cardiac, and enteric), resulting in an improved neural congruence and a state of coherence. It is from this state of coherence that the highest practical expressions of creativity, compassion, and courage in leadership emerge and give access to a source of wisdom that logic alone cannot apprehend (Soosalu and Oka 2012). Leaders who simultaneously practice multibrain leadership and improve leadership competency converge the inner and outer dimensions of leadership into a single powerful beam of light. I theorize such convergent leaders can create in organizations a global coherent positive environment where teams - with the aid of greater than human intelligent machines - provide solutions to what today seems unsolvable problems.