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Creativity, Innovation and Leadership

In: The Illusion of Leadership

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  • Piers Ibbotson

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I love the ballet. It bores me for long stretches but then there is always a moment when the combination of the music and the story and the dancers’ movements makes me weep when I least expect it. Some of the repertoire of classical ballet has been unchanged since the nineteenth century when much of the music was composed. Male dancers still wear tights, a style that went out of fashion in Europe in about 1560. There is a repertoire of movements that must be mastered by all classical dancers that has been pretty much unaltered for a hundred and fifty years. There is a paradox here: the arts seem to contain both unbroken lines of traditional practice and the ability to innovate and surprise. Of course great art endures because it still resonates. It connects with something unchanging in us, and so “old” art is still current and still in circulation, unlike old cars or old telephones. How do the arts, which at one level are steeped in craft and tradition, also become the source of radical and sometimes shocking innovation?

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  • Piers Ibbotson, 2008. "Creativity, Innovation and Leadership," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Illusion of Leadership, chapter 0, pages 74-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-20200-9_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230202009_9
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