In my June 11, 2011 post titled "Vantage Point: Valuing Perspective for Daily Performance Demands" I cited a May 2011 Harvard Business Review article titled The Wise Leader; How CEO's can learn from practical wisdom to help them do what's right for their companies, written by professors Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi. They have recently posted a YouTube video interview that I believe adds real value to any of our own spheres of influence and responsibility. The video is particularly relevant as it pertains to how we apply the Vantage Point principle. The leadership paradigm that they build is based on an over-arching Aristotle idea called Phronesis. Phronesis is a mindset that they believe is fundamental to building a bridge between the tensions of the daily transactional demands of the bottom line and the social justice demands that we've become more and more aware of. When questioned regarding the relevance of such a paradigm, Nonaka and Takeuchi associate Phronesis as a key to the success of leaders like John Chambers, CEO, Cisco. No matter what your rank or role may be, I believe that looking into a phronesis paradigm can help provide a substance rutter to our daily living. This video can help us all begin to appreciate the context and opportunity afforded from each other's vantage point. Enjoy the video.
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