Practical wisdom is focused on sound decisions to promote a good life, while self-
transcendent wisdom focuses on making ethical decisions for the greater good. Self …

This study examined responses of senior managers drawn from academic, business,
military, and non-profit or government organizations during interview sessions. Interview …

Wicked problems (messes) are tangled social situations that are too costly to stay in and too
intransigent to get out of. Collaboration is essential to resolving them. This chapter examines …

Abstract Writing Program Administrators in large universities face the challenge of providing
First-Year Writing instruction to progressively larger and more linguistically diverse …

The philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that the truthful life was at risk of being lost in
Western technological culture in the name of increasing control, efficiency, and agility. As the …

Remarkable innovations are coming from unmanaged social networks of people who use
the Internet to communicate and coordinate. In doing so, they defy the conventional wisdom …

Have you ever found yourself in a mess, a tangled social situation that is too costly to stay in
and too intransigent to get out of? Messes are also called wicked problems. The people …