Eastern Wu

Chapter Ten called Servant Leadership and Chapter Eleven called Adaptive Leadership explains servant and adaptive leadership more comprehensively. There is a lot of facts and knowledge one must understand to know what adaptive and servant leadership is. Chapter Ten by Northouse discusses servant leadership in greater detail. As explained in the text, servant leadership semms contradictory and challenges our traditional beliefs about leadership, and is an approach that offers a unique perspective. Servant Leadership, as explained on page 225 emphasizes that leaders be attentive to the concerns of their followers, empathize with them, and nurture them. Servant Leaders put followers first, empower them, and help them develop their full personal capacities. Page 226 defines servant leadership in a paragraph using rhetoric language. Basically, servant leadership is a behavior in which leaders place the good of followers over their own self-interests and emphasize follower development, demonstrating strong moral behavior toward followers. Northouse givesa historical basis of servant leaderships, listens ten characteristics of a servant leader which is listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community. Northouse builds a theory about Servant Leadership and has Table 10.1 on page 230 listing key characteristics of Servant Leadership, using Laub (1999), Wong and Davey (2007),…

In 6th century BCE the philosphy of Doaism was first created by Laozi during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Laozi believed that people could accomplish more in life by following Tao or “The Way”, which is the natural order of things. The guidance of following the path of least resistance to be successful is called Wu Wei or “non-action”. The Doadejing by Loazi and the Zhungzi by Zhungzi are traditional chinese texts that were used for Doaism teachings in the Eastern Zhou. Doaism teachings can also…

Taoism, known as “The Way,” is the Eastern Philosophy and religion of Chinese. It focuses on the balance between humans and nature. It has many profound theories for which may be difficult to understand by the common person. The most basic concept is the Tao, which is based on three approaches to te or power. The first concept is the way of ultimate reality. According to Lao Tzu in his writing, Tao Te Ching, “The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao” (198). The second concept is the way of…

duties. Each person should understand and feel comfortable in his/her own role. People, who act correctly, can improve and reorganize the society. Only if one explores the surrounding world, he/she will become smart. Knowledge brings sincere thoughts and ideas while an open mind improves a person’s character. An educated and sophisticated individual makes his family better. Families, in their turn, regulate the state. The peace in the world will be achieved only if there is harmony in families…

who wrote Meditations, a book that has details about Marcus Aurelius’ thoughts and stoicism in general. While these two philosophers may have been born in different eras and different parts of the world, they have some very similar thoughts about the right way to live your life. More specifically, both of these philosophers believed in the idea of inaction, or wu wei according…

Life can be a roller-coaster of emotions, but some people experience more lows than highs; as a result, people have tried to find ways to increase the number of happy moments in their life. While many paths to happiness have been proposed, one of the earliest is a philosophy, based off the writing Tao Te Ching, known as Taoism. Those that follow Taoism (also known as Taoists) say they experience less stress and live a happier life. In modern American society, it is believed that a person must…

ladies.” “I blame her,” Vita said, glaring out from under her bangs. Persephone glared back, colder, “Me? You blame me, for your terrible temper?” Her head whipped up, immidetly. “My temper? You're the one that tried to strangle me!” “And you, dear Vita, are the one who banged my head into the side of a stone building.” “Oh, You wanna bring that up – ?!” “Ladies.” The professors voice cut through, stern, and both of the witches were quiet. Mostly. Vita was angrily muttering to…

Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu regent who effectively ruled over China from her appointment in 1861 until her death in 1908. She ruled during the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising led by a splinter group called the Boxers towards the end of the Qing Dynasty from 1899 to 1901. Empress Cixi’s changes to Boxer ideologies to reflect those of the state and her actions to preserve the state, doctrine, and race of China express her use of the Boxers as a nationalistic…

When I read the passage, I can see the conception of Lao-Tzu, his opinion about “Tao” and “Wu Wei”. The passage said that we need to have patience to wait the mud settle and water clear. The patience is waiting, waiting the thing become clear, this is just like the conception of “Wu Wei”. Wu Wei means people being peace and accept the flow that the river give us, and the passage said “have patience to wait” means people should stay peace and waiting for right time until everything clear. People…

Reflections in Light The Coinherence of Opposites from the Tao Te Ching describes the balances between opposites in life through the Daoist (Taoist) religion. In the passage, Laozi begins on explaining that when something exists, it will always have an opposite (e.g. when people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly). In the text, Laozi informs the reader that these things are not just opposite, but they are connected and they work together in some manner, meaning without one,…