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The Aesthetics of Leadership Development

In: Leadership Learning

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  • Alan George
  • Donna Ladkin

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Over the last ten years there has been an upsurge in the use of arts-based approaches within leadership development (Mockler, 2002; Darso, 2004). For instance, in the UK, the director and actor Richard Olivier has championed the reading and dramatisation of Shakespeare plays as a mode of leadership development (Olivier, 2002), the Banff Centre for Leadership in Alberta Canada regularly incorporates mask-making, poetry and dance in its ‘Leadership Lab’ and the Bled School of Management in Slovenia runs an innovative programme in which participants on leadership development programmes conduct an orchestra as a way of gaining a new perspective on teamworking. Theoretical development in this area is also on the rise, heralded by an International Arts of Organisation and Management conference held biennially since 2002 as well as the introduction of the journal Aesthesis, which encourages discourse amongst academics and practitioners forging innovative theory in the intersection between organisation and art.

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  • Alan George & Donna Ladkin, 2008. "The Aesthetics of Leadership Development," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kim Turnbull James & James Collins (ed.), Leadership Learning, chapter 4, pages 77-92, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58407-5_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230584075_5
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