New CEO Leadership Attributes and Ancient Chinese Wisdom

Is Ancient Chinese Wisdom still applicable in the new world? This question has been of most interest to me. When there are new articles and new books about the new things we need to learn, I will check the new wisdom against the Ancient Chinese Wisdom to find out whether the ancient is still relevant.

With the increasing uncertainty, polarization, and tensions, there are many studies on the new leadership attributes that are needed. A recent article. The five new foundational qualities of effective leadership (in “strategy + business - a pwc publication"), present the new qualities for this new world. I made a mind map to capture the essential points and rephrased the five questions into qualities for easier comparison with ancient teaching on leadership.

The Ancient Chinese Wisdom I used will be from iChing and Sun Zi's Art of War. 
Please read the following for details:

• 4 Basic and 5 Orientation Principles of Leadership from I-Ching
• Sun Zi Art of War-6: Leadership Skills and Creating HPO

The New and the Ancient, the West and the Chinese, are shown in the mind map below:

We can see that the Ancient Chinese teaching on leadership attributes is very much still applicable in the uncertain world.  This should not be surprising because iChing is the study of change, or more specifically, how to embrace change and adapt to it to come out better than before. It is about using unchanging principles to face the ever-changing world.

To know more about Ancient Chinese Wisdom, please see:

• Ancient Chinese Wisdom
• I-Ching 易经 The Book on Change
• Sun Zi and The Art of War

Here is a mind-map showing more leadership attributes from the Ancient Chinese Sages and other Western thinkers and gurus:

Lim Liat (c) 21 June 2023