Practical Wisdom In The Age Of Technology

Author : Nikunj Dalal,Ali Intezari,Marty Heitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317076599

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Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology by Nikunj Dalal,Ali Intezari,Marty Heitz Pdf

The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for leaders and organizations. These are issues that call for a critical, insightful examination of key questions such as: are modern technologies beneficial or problematic for the well-being of individuals, organizations, and societies at large; why do we seem to feel more disconnected in an age of technological connectivity; can organizations reduce technology-induced stresses and find ways to enable the mindful use of technologies and how can organizations, governments and societies manage the use of technologies wisely? Such questions, when explored from various perspectives of wisdom, can yield significant insights, increase awareness of the issues, deepen the dialogue and help redesign an increasingly technology-driven future. However, there is little researched published material available on such questions and issues. Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, Issues and Questions for a New Millennium will provide a space to engage in thought-provoking dialogue and critical reflection on a variety of themes linking technology and practical wisdom. It will offer a foundation for exploration, inquiry, engagement, and discussion among organizational, political and social leaders, technology professionals, information systems academicians, wisdom researchers, managers, philosophers of technology, and other practitioners.

Author : Ali Intezari,David Pauleen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134769674

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Wisdom, Analytics and Wicked Problems by Ali Intezari,David Pauleen Pdf

The challenges faced by 21st-century businesses, organizations and governments are characterized as being fundamentally different in nature, scope and levels of impact from those of the past. As problems become increasingly complex and wicked, conventional reductive approaches and data-based solutions are limited. The authors argue that practical wisdom is required. This book provides an integral and practical model for incorporating wisdom into management decision making. Based on a cross-disciplinary conceptualization of practical wisdom, the authors distinguish systematically between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom-based decision making. While they suggest that data, analytics, information and knowledge can assist decision-makers to better deal with complex and wicked problems, they argue that data-based systems cannot replace optimized human decision-making capabilities. These capabilities, the authors explain, include a range of qualities and characteristics inherent in philosophical, psychological and organizational conceptions of practical wisdom. Accordingly, in this book, the authors introduce a model that identifies the specific qualities and processes involved in making wise decisions, especially in management. The model is based on the empirical fi ndings of the authors’ studies in the areas of wisdom and management. This book is a practical resource for professionals, practitioners, and consultants in both the private and public sectors. The theoretical discussions, critical arguments, and practical guidelines provided in the book will be extremely valuable to students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as upper-level postdoctoral researchers looking at business management strategies.

Author : Barry Schwartz,Kenneth Sharpe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101475188

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Practical Wisdom by Barry Schwartz,Kenneth Sharpe Pdf

A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom. It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back? Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual experiences with our empathy and intellect-an aim that Aristotle identified millennia ago. It's learning "the right way to do the right thing in a particular circumstance, with a particular person, at a particular time." But we have forgotten how to do this. In Practical Wisdom, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe illuminate how to get back in touch with our wisdom: how to identify it, cultivate it, and enact it, and how to make ourselves healthier, wealthier, and wiser.

Author : Luppicini, Rocci
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466629325

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Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice by Luppicini, Rocci Pdf

Our social, educational, professional, and political ethics play a significant role in every aspect of our life. As technology continues to influence our society, these principles needs to be valued. Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice highlights the innovations and developments in the ethical features of technology in society. This comprehensive collection brings together research in the areas of computer, engineering, and biotechnical ethics. These theoretical studies and innovative methodologies are essential for researchers, practitioners and philosophers.

Author : George Pattison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191535529

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Thinking about God in an Age of Technology by George Pattison Pdf

Taking up the critique of theology found in the work of Heidegger, George Pattison argues for a model of thinking about God that would not be liable to the charge of `enframing' that Heidegger sees as characteristic of technological thinking. He constructs his case in relation to particular issues in bioethics, the place of theology in the university, the arts, and the contemporary experience of living in the city.

Author : Jens Zimmermann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192657824

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Human Flourishing in a Technological World by Jens Zimmermann Pdf

Human Flourishing in a Technological World addresses the question of human identity and flourishing in the light of recent technological advances. The chapters in Part I provide a philosophical-theological evaluation of changing major anthropological assumptions that have guided human self-understanding from antiquity to modernity: How did we move from a religious and mostly embodied anthropology of the person to the idea that we can upload human consciousness to computing platforms? How did we come to imagine that machines can actually be intelligent, or even learn in human fashion? Moreover, what metaphysical changes explain our mostly uncritical embrace of a technological determination of being and thus of how reality "works"? In Part II, the focus turns to the practical implications of our changing understanding of what it means to be human. Covering some of the most pressing current concerns about human flourishing, these chapters deal with the impact of technology on education, healthcare, disability, leisure and the nature of work, communication, aging, death, and the nature of wisdom for human flourishing in light of evolutionary biology. The volume includes the text of a lecutre by virtual reality engineer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and a discussion between Lanier and other contributors.

Author : Dr Katerina Sideri
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781409493303

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Law's Practical Wisdom by Dr Katerina Sideri Pdf

This book develops a sociological understanding of law making in the European Union. In particular, the book focuses on the social function of law in new governance structures promoting decentralized and flexible procedures that encourage deliberation, participation of stakeholders, and public dialogue. It pays attention to both the practical knowledge and the power relations underpinning law making, while seeking to bring to the foreground the importance of compromise in the process. The empirical substantiation of the argument discusses the regulation of technology in the European Union and is premised on case studies of governance of the Internet, patents of high technology, filters used on the Internet to block harmful material, trademark law and domain name dispute resolution by ICANN. To this effect, the book studies the dynamics of constructing a legal argument inside the European Commission, and its role in the process of coordinating the creation of networks, securing enforcement in self regulatory regimes, and steering activity on the part of autonomous groups of actors.

Author : Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351286312

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Practical Wisdom in Management by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch Pdf

Practical Wisdom in Management is the first in-depth case-study book to explore how practical wisdom from spiritual and philosophical traditions inspires corporate culture and leadership. The outcome of the Practical Wisdom Initiative, between The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) and Yale University Center for Faith and Culture, it seeks to construct a bridge between the worlds of management and the spiritual and philosophical traditions. Covering ten major worldwide religions, Theodore Malloch provides an overview of the practical wisdom of the major faith traditions for management. It includes case studies of over twenty multinational corporations focusing on their values, spiritual inspiration and business strategy. It features case studies on corporations including: Ascension Health; Michelin; DANONE Group, Walmart; TOMS; Marriott; HSBC; Four Seasons; Guangzhou Eversunny Trading and Toyota. It is essential reading for business leaders, researchers and students of business ethics and spirituality courses and includes full teaching guidance.

Author : Doru Costache,James R. Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443886703

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Teaching Theology in a Technological Age by Doru Costache,James R. Harrison Pdf

The iGeneration has learned to adapt rapidly to technological change. Tech-savvy students multi-task with consummate ease, accessing email on smart-phones, researching assignments on tablets, reading a book on Kindle, while drinking a flat white and listening to iTunes in the background. How does the tertiary educational curriculum meet the learning needs of students whose attention transitions rapidly between mediums and messages? The complexity and pace of modern technological change has left the theological educational sector gasping, as it struggles to devise pedagogically engaging online distance learning materials in traditional disciplines and teach units with significant relational and pastoral components. The technological benefits are vast, the instant availability of information unprecedented, and the opportunities to provide theological education to groups marginalised by the tyranny of distance and time enormous. How should the theological sector address these challenges and opportunities? Although the benefits are massive, the media is replete with stories of the casualties of technological change, including cyber-bullying, internet predators, the psychic damage from trolls, addiction to gaming, and issues of body image, among others. How should the theological sector, drawing upon its scriptural and teaching heritage, come to grips with the deficits spawned by the technological revolution? What is the theological, pastoral, social and pedagogic responsibility of theology teachers in nurturing this new generation? Teaching Theology in a Technological Age draws together in an inspiring volume a series of cutting-edge essays from Australian, New Zealand and South African scholars on the learning and teaching of theology in a digital age.

Author : Moira Savage
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781909682641

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Digital Literacy for Primary Teachers by Moira Savage Pdf

The educational landscape for primary teachers and learners is increasingly digital and technology rich, making it a challenge for professionals to decide which digital technologies to use, how and when, to bring about the maximum benefit for learning and teaching. This book navigates this complex and evolving arena, providing a structure for teachers to reflect on their own digital literacy, helping them make informed decisions, providing practical ideas on how to develop children’s digital literacy capabilities and offering a range of professional development activities. The text makes clear links to the new primary curriculum, including the computing programmes of study. It is pedagogy led and illustrated with a range of subject examples. Chapters examine the implications of digital literacy for teaching and learning, creating content, collaboration and communication, digital citizenship, e-safety and digital safeguarding. Critical questions and reflections throughout stimulate readers to engage fully with the text and their professional development.

Author : Erik Parens,Josephine Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190940362

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Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing by Erik Parens,Josephine Johnston Pdf

International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, meaning that changes can be passed to the offspring of the person that embryo becomes. Should we use gene editing technologies to change ourselves, our children, and future generations to come? The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. By using these technologies, we eradicate certain dreadful diseases. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? Can all physical risks be adequately assessed, and responsibly managed? But gene editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values: Might such technologies redefine what it means to be healthy, or normal, or cherished? Might they undermine relationships between parents and children, or exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots? The broadest form of this second kind of question is the focus of this book: What might gene editing--and related technologies--mean for human flourishing? In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age--old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a revolutionary new biotechnology--one that has the potential to change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future generations. Welcoming readers who study related issues and those not yet familiar with the formal study of bioethics, the authors of these essays open up a conversation about the ethics of gene editing. It is through this conversation that citizens can influence laws and the distribution of funding for science and medicine, that professional leaders can shape understanding and use of gene editing and related technologies by scientists, patients, and practitioners, and that individuals can make decisions about their own lives and the lives of their families.

Author : Gerald Sussman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 080395140X

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Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age by Gerald Sussman Pdf

Gerald Sussman offers a detailed critical analysis of the political dimensions of 21st century communication/information technologies, mass media and transnational networks.

Author : Mark Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798216078210

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The Electronic Church in the Digital Age by Mark Ward Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Lamont-Turner
Publisher : Andrew J. Lamont-Turner
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Study Guide: Proverbs Volume I by Andrew J. Lamont-Turner Pdf

Welcome to Volume I. Embark on a journey to unlock the timeless wisdom encapsulated in the Book of Proverbs through this comprehensive, verse-by-verse study. Delve into the very essence of each proverb and unearth practical insights capable of transforming your life. This meticulously crafted book serves as your guide through the entire Book of Proverbs, meticulously examining themes such as wisdom, knowledge, understanding, morality, relationships, and work ethic. With lucid explanations, pertinent examples, and thought-provoking questions, you will cultivate a profound understanding of the wisdom that has transcended generations. This literary treasure is designed to cater to both seasoned scholars and inquisitive newcomers alike, facilitating a deeper connection with the riches embedded in the Book of Proverbs and enabling the application of its teachings to your everyday life. Proverbs 2:6: "For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding." May the exploration of these verses enrich your journey, providing not only intellectual enlightenment but also practical guidance for a life aligned with the profound teachings of the Book of Proverbs.

Author : Shannon Vallor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190498535

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Technology and the Virtues by Shannon Vallor Pdf

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree. Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected in such challenging and uncertain conditions? How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond? This book locates a key to that future in the distant past: specifically, in the philosophical traditions of virtue ethics developed by classical thinkers from Aristotle and Confucius to the Buddha. Each developed a way of seeking the good life that equips human beings with the moral and intellectual character to flourish even in the most unpredictable, complex and unstable situations--precisely where we find ourselves today. Through an examination of the many risks and opportunities presented by rapidly changing technosocial conditions, Vallor makes the case that if we are to have any real hope of securing a future worth wanting, then we will need more than just better technologies. We will also need better humans. Technology and the Virtues develops a practical framework for seeking that goal by means of the deliberate cultivation of technomoral virtues: specific skills and strengths of character, adapted to the unique challenges of 21st century life, that offer the human family our best chance of learning to live wisely and well with emerging technologies.