How can practical wisdom manifest itself in five fundamental management and leadership practices?

Five fundamental leadership strategies.

A In today’s more challenging environment, dentists are realizing that their leadership skills— or lack thereof—can have a profound effect on practice success. Learning how to lead a practice team more effectively deserves to be an educational priority throughout every dentist’s career. It is vital to a practice’s health as a business, and methodologies evolve constantly. However, there are cer...

Practical wisdom and the development of cross-cultural knowledge management: a global leadership perspective

This paper responds to calls for pragmatic context-dependent crosscultural scholarship. Specifically, with regard to global organisations, we attempt to reconcile the imbalance between global and local concerns by proposing a framework that merges a new understanding of culture with a classical leadership approach. The objective is to achieve more effective crosscultural practice. The article m...

Phishing: How an Organization can Protect Itself

The objective of this paper is to report on research to construct a model, which should provide guidance to an organization on how to address all dimensions associated with phishing and assist in solving the problem holistically. The emphasis will be placed on the human and organizational dimensions. Most research in this area has shown that only certain dimensions used to combat phishing attac...

How earlobes can signify leadership potential.

Healthy Skepticism and Practical Wisdom

This paper explores and articulates an alternative to the two main approaches that have come to predominate in contemporary philosophical discussions of skepticism. These we may call the ̳Foil Approach‘ and the ̳Bypass Approach‘ respectively. On the Foil Approach, skepticism is treated as a problem to be solved, or challenge to be met, or threat to be parried; skepticism‘s value, insofar as it ...