Spiritual Wisdom of Taoism in Business: through the lens of interpretation realism in a Cisco end-to -end case study

Peter Sun San Wong; Philip Arthur Neck; Bernard McKenna

Peter Sun San Wong QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, Australia
Philip Arthur Neck Southern Cross Business School, Southern Cross University, Tweed, Australia
Bernard McKenna UQ Business School, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Keywords: Spiritual Wisdom, Taoism, Business

Abstract

This paper explores how the amalgamated wisdom of East and West can instigate a wisdombased renaissance of humanistic epistemology (Rooney & McKenna, 2005) to provide a platform of harmony in managing knowledge-worker productivity, one of the biggest management challenges of the 21st century (Drucker, 1999). The paper invites further discussions from the social and business research communities on the significance of “interpretation realism” technique in comprehending philosophies of Lao Tzu (